If anyone in here is a self-loathing gay fundamentalist living among other fundamentalists and using this thread as a means of telling himself it's ok to be gay, I have one thing to say:
It's ok to be gay.
Just in case. You never know.
Atheism and homosexuality
-
normal
- !
- Posts: 9071
- Joined: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:23 pm
- About me: meh
- Location: North, and then some
- Contact:
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
-Douglas Adams-
camoguard
- The ferret with a microphone
- Posts: 873
- Joined: Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:59 pm
- About me: I'm very social and philosophically ambitious. Also, I'm chatty and enjoy getting to meet new people on or offline. I think I'm talented in writing and rapping. We'll see.
- Location: Tennessee
- Contact:
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
It's also okay to be Scandinavian. Honest.Normal wrote:If anyone in here is a self-loathing gay fundamentalist living among other fundamentalists and using this thread as a means of telling himself it's ok to be gay, I have one thing to say:
It's ok to be gay.
Just in case. You never know.
-
Gawdzilla Sama
- Stabsobermaschinist
- Posts: 151265
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:24 am
- About me: My posts are related to the thread in the same way Gliese 651b is related to your mother's underwear drawer.
- Location: Sitting next to Ayaan in Domus Draconis, and communicating via PMs.
- Contact:
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
...Idle, how do you know you're not gay? There is a fool-proof test, you know.
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
-
normal
- !
- Posts: 9071
- Joined: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:23 pm
- About me: meh
- Location: North, and then some
- Contact:
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
Thanks, mate!camoguard wrote:It's also okay to be Scandinavian. Honest.Normal wrote:If anyone in here is a self-loathing gay fundamentalist living among other fundamentalists and using this thread as a means of telling himself it's ok to be gay, I have one thing to say:
It's ok to be gay.
Just in case. You never know.
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
-Douglas Adams
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
You aren't allowed to be proud of being white. People call you a nazi. Apparently we all have to feel guilty for the actions of our ancestors.Coito ergo sum wrote:,snip....
or "proud to be black/white" - i.e. taking pride in an accident of birth. It doesn't make a lot of rational sense, but people want to be "proud" (feel good about) who they are.
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
Code: Select all
// Replaces with spaces the braces in cases where braces in places cause stasis
$str = str_replace(array("\{","\}")," ",$str);-
Gawdzilla Sama
- Stabsobermaschinist
- Posts: 151265
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:24 am
- About me: My posts are related to the thread in the same way Gliese 651b is related to your mother's underwear drawer.
- Location: Sitting next to Ayaan in Domus Draconis, and communicating via PMs.
- Contact:
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
Idle, do you KNOW if you're gay or not gay? I do.
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
How can you be proud of skin colour? What do you actually mean by "proud of being white"?Ghatanothoa wrote:You aren't allowed to be proud of being white. People call you a nazi. Apparently we all have to feel guilty for the actions of our ancestors.Coito ergo sum wrote:,snip....
or "proud to be black/white" - i.e. taking pride in an accident of birth. It doesn't make a lot of rational sense, but people want to be "proud" (feel good about) who they are.
-
Pappa
- Non-Practicing Anarchist
- Posts: 56488
- Joined: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:42 am
- About me: I am sacrificing a turnip as I type.
- Location: Le sud du Pays de Galles.
- Contact:
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
Fucking nazi!Ghatanothoa wrote:You aren't allowed to be proud of being white. People call you a nazi. Apparently we all have to feel guilty for the actions of our ancestors.Coito ergo sum wrote:,snip....
or "proud to be black/white" - i.e. taking pride in an accident of birth. It doesn't make a lot of rational sense, but people want to be "proud" (feel good about) who they are.
For information on ways to help support Rationalia financially, see our funding page.
When the aliens do come, everything we once thought was cool will then make us ashamed.
-
Xamonas Chegwé
- Bouncer
- Posts: 50939
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:23 pm
- About me: I have prehensile eyebrows.
I speak 9 languages fluently, one of which other people can also speak.
When backed into a corner, I fit perfectly - having a right-angled arse. - Location: Nottingham UK
- Contact:
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
Millefleur
Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
Millefleur
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
Oh thank God you told us that!! I was about to have a crisis because I thought someone on the internet about whom I don't give a damn may not be okay with what I "need do in private", but, thankfully, you have no problem with it. (phew!)...Idle wrote:I have no problem with homosexuals doing what they need to do in private
Do I have your leave to go out in public as well?
I see tactlessness as a disability. Nobody likes a boor, and when they reproduce it just degrades the human gene pool that little bit more.I see homosexuality as a disability, since there is no evolutionary desire for a homosexual to have sex with a woman and in turn produce off-spring, which is essentially the propose of all living species, i.e. to propagate their genes through asexual/sexual production.
Oh you're just taking the piss now.For lesbians this is not a problem in the sense as in evolution as rape of females within a species actually has an evolutionary benefit.
Also, why are most heterosexuals proud of being hetero? It makes no sense to me, it makes about much sense to me as a fish being proud of being wet...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhP0tOm6 ... =1&index=6[/youtube]
(Although I'm not actually sure all those boys are as straight as they claim, but still...)
Last edited by CookieJon on Fri Apr 16, 2010 3:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.
-
Coito ergo sum
- Posts: 32040
- Joined: Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:03 pm
- Contact:
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
You are allowed to be proud to be white. It's irrational, but you're allowed. Others are allowed to make negative value judgments about you though.Ghatanothoa wrote:You aren't allowed to be proud of being white. People call you a nazi. Apparently we all have to feel guilty for the actions of our ancestors.Coito ergo sum wrote:,snip....
or "proud to be black/white" - i.e. taking pride in an accident of birth. It doesn't make a lot of rational sense, but people want to be "proud" (feel good about) who they are.
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
Just a thought. Disliking a person because they are not like one is bigotry, bigotry is a sign of stupidity, in my experience I have yet to meet a really stupid atheist, thus little or no bigotry among atheists....Idle wrote:Hi there,
I've been an atheist for 3 or 4 years now, and I find that majority of atheists are either ardent supporters of homosexuality, are homosexuals themselves or don't really care much. In all my years I have found only a hand full of atheists who have had any objection to homosexuality. Why is there a lack of objection to homosexuality within the atheist community?
Also, why are some homosexuals proud of being homosexual? It makes no sense to me, it makes about much sense to me as a disabled person being proud of being disabled.
Why are gay people proud to be gay? I would guess a simple human backlash at being shit on all the time by bigots.
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
Which camp do you fall into, fellow atheist?...Idle wrote:Hi there,
I've been an atheist for 3 or 4 years now, and I find that majority of atheists are either ardent supporters of homosexuality, are homosexuals themselves or don't really care much.
no fences
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
I'm not anti-gayCharlou wrote:Which camp do you fall into, fellow atheist?...Idle wrote:Hi there,
I've been an atheist for 3 or 4 years now, and I find that majority of atheists are either ardent supporters of homosexuality, are homosexuals themselves or don't really care much.
-
JOZeldenrust
- Posts: 557
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:49 am
- Contact:
Re: Atheism and homosexuality
You misunderstand evolution. It doesn't produce purpose. Evolution simply means that hereditary traits that improve the chances of producing a lot of healthy offspring tend to become more common in a population. If homosexuality is hereditary (and that's a big "if") it might still provide an evolutionary advantage through kin selection or something like that....Idle wrote:I have no problem with homosexuals doing what they need to do in private, I see homosexuality as a disability, since there is no evolutionary desire for a homosexual to have sex with a woman and in turn produce off-spring, which is essentially the propose of all living species, i.e. to propagate their genes through asexual/sexual production. For lesbians this is not a problem in the sense as in evolution as rape of females within a species actually has an evolutionary benefit.
Evolution is not a basis for morality.
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 6 guests