Sky Dancer
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Plenty of stupid people already have the legal right to marry. Just look at the divorce rate.
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Plenty of stupid people already have the legal right to marry. Just look at the divorce rate.
Do you feel mocked? How sad that makes me. Is mocking gays your way of trying to start a meaningful discussion?I'm always deadly serious, Amanda.Ravi, I try to take people at face value and give them the benefit of the doubt, but you seem to be trying to communicate to me that I shouldn't take you seriously. Is that the case, or am I misreading your signals?
Since you couldn't, or wouldn't, tell us your motive in posing your question about homosexuals I decided to try to put myself in your mindset.
There are many groups of people that I think don't benefit society, or at the very least, annoy me. Fundamentalist religious groups of any type. Republicans. Heck, even black people sometimes annoy me because I swear they purposely walk slower when I stop my car to let pedestrians pass. But I decided to pick stupid people as the subject because I think stupidity is a non-partisan, non-racial and non-denominational group. And I also have this nebulous theory that no one is limited by their stupidity...stupid people can always work to improve their intelligence level.
So stupid people...do they benefit society or not? I could argue on either side of the issue. If they don't benefit society, should we care? Should we do something about it? Is the individual's right less important than the well being of society...even among a group that doesn't purposely harm anyone? Should we force stupid people to stop acting like stupid people? It all sounds vaguely communistic to me, but I'm not always correct.
So mocking me is actually your way of trying to start a meaningful discussion?
why do you think "liberals" should tolerate intolerance? I find that strange. I don't think it's anyone's job to be nice or not nice. There are people we connect with and people we don't. If someone thinks your point is bogus, they are going to tell you. It doesn't mean they "don't like [you]". If you look around, you're playing to a tough audience. So I'm not sure why you'd expect anyone to not call you on being wrong... or inconsistent... or hypocritial... or whatever.
I'm not sure you really want to take posts on a messageboard to heart in any event.
LOL! You're joking, right? I wasn't calling you stupid...I was substituting stupidity for homosexuality as a group of people to claim have a detrimental societal benefit. The topic isn't about you, Amanda, it is about do we as a society have the right to label certain groups of non-criminal people as a detriment to society.I truly am naive. When I started this experiment I thought that liberals would be nice to me. I thought they were supposed to be the kinder, gentler people. I'd never really known any so I didn't have any way to know better. I really am shocked at the obvious glee that some seem to derive from trying to hurt my feelings.
It must be frustrating tho... not that it isn't working, it's not, but that personal attacks are the best you've got. I'm dumb remember? Shouldn't it be easy to outwit me? But no, nothing of any substance, just mocking and name calling.
I'd be embarrassed to be sitting back acting morally and intellectually superior and having to resort to these kinds of tactics. Heck, I don't think I'm morally and intellectually superior to anyone and I'd still be embarrassed.... that's why I don't do it. It would make me feel like a small person to try to hurt someone just because I disagreed with them or didn't like them for whatever reasons you've dreamed up to not like me. It's funny, you don't even know me and you put such energy into me. Ironically, I like all of you. I really do. I think about the things you've posted and pray for your families when you're in some kind of distress. I try to send love and light to all of you every day.
I just wish I knew a way to make you happy.
Fundamentalism keeps people stupid. It's always the 'holier than thou' types that are wagging their fingers at someone else's bedroom privacy while bragging about making it with six guys at one party.
Don't knock stupidity - if it weren't for stupidity I'd be unemployed
stupid people dont realize how stupid they are...nor how annoying they are...i have always noticed that the more brains the more depression and broodiness...perhays being stupid is really a happy state
If that's true it confirms my theory that I'm dumb as fuck, cos I'm happy almost all the time. And if being smart means I have to be bitter or depressed then no thanks I'll stay stupid.
I truly am naive. When I started this experiment I thought that liberals would be nice to me. I thought they were supposed to be the kinder, gentler people. I'd never really known any so I didn't have any way to know better. I really am shocked at the obvious glee that some seem to derive from trying to hurt my feelings.
It must be frustrating tho... not that it isn't working, it's not, but that personal attacks are the best you've got. I'm dumb remember? Shouldn't it be easy to outwit me? But no, nothing of any substance, just mocking and name calling.
I'd be embarrassed to be sitting back acting morally and intellectually superior and having to resort to these kinds of tactics. Heck, I don't think I'm morally and intellectually superior to anyone and I'd still be embarrassed.... that's why I don't do it. It would make me feel like a small person to try to hurt someone just because I disagreed with them or didn't like them for whatever reasons you've dreamed up to not like me. It's funny, you don't even know me and you put such energy into me. Ironically, I like all of you. I really do. I think about the things you've posted and pray for your families when you're in some kind of distress. I try to send love and light to all of you every day.
I just wish I knew a way to make you happy.
"If you're gonna be a rock, be a rock, don't be a bug. "
"If you're gonna be a rock, be a rock, don't be a bug. "
What does that mean?
Intelligent people do stupid things all the time, folks.
Look at the mess the geniuses at AIG made of things.
They were, one assumes, doing what was very smart for them personally, but what they did was stupid in the long run.
Were they choosing to be stupid by systematically doing things that were intelligent for THEM?
This question appears to have simple answers, but it doesn't really.
Don't you mean it was a stupid metaphor?No offense, Ravi, but this is a really poorly chosen metaphor. Is it your contention then, that just as someone can choose to become less stupid, they can also choose to become less gay?