One thing...as others have said...I don't think he is "ex gay" at all...I think he is a prisoner of his own fears....and so on a strictly personal level...I do have some sympathy for him because I am well aware of the external forces that work 24/7 to create these conditions in which he is living in fear and shame...
I have to believe that somewhere deep inside himself he didn't want to grow up to be such a collassal douchebag.
In my eyes...sympathy is not such a good thing...it would be better if I had some empathy for him and I have none. I cannot relate to his fear and I especially hate the manner in which he acts out because his actions and words potentially can affect and damage lots of good people and he is part of a huge problem.
I don't know if that makes any sense but sympathy and empathy are two different things entirely in my opinion.
I agree with you. And there are things we shouldn't force ourselves to either sympathize or empathize with, at least in my view. I can appreciate that someone's background and influences and the way they were raised brought them to a certain point or predisposed them to be more or less capable of handling certain things than other people, and I can feel sorry for them for that, but where they choose to go with that as capable adults has to reflect something about them and their values too. People aren't just a confluence of what people drilled into them growing up.
Prosthetic Conscience -Gay Issues, Ranting and Bad Manners
"Someone who frequently mentions their personal struggle, while idolizing all things conservative, is kinda like watching a woman rape herself and cry about it..."
And Kien Wrote:
tongue punch his fart box!!
I like the way you're thinking.
But I suspect his ass is so tight you couldn't get a needle up his fudge hole.
Last edited by rareboy; February 5th, 2013 at 03:19 PM.
I'm sorry, sugar, do you have a problem with the concept of attractive people getting more breaks than unattractive ones? Sucks to be you if that's the case.
The air must be hard to breathe on such a high saddle...
Prosthetic Conscience -Gay Issues, Ranting and Bad Manners
"Someone who frequently mentions their personal struggle, while idolizing all things conservative, is kinda like watching a woman rape herself and cry about it..."
I'm tending to agree with this. I had similar issues when I was younger. I would go on a gay website and feel incredibly guilty about it later even saying anti-gay things to others... I think what happened here was guilt and shame...
I came to the truth with myself though... and he needs to do the same. But I don't really know if I feel much sympathy either.
I'm sorry, sweetheart, you seem to have missed the point in my quoting you.
This isn't about attractive people getting "breaks" (and speaking of which, I don't think the subject of this thread is), this is about you speaking for everyone when you made (what I felt to be) a bullshit remark as if it were fact.
Maybe I'm a small person for finding so much joy in his getting outed... is it outing when you were gay, and then you "weren't" gay, but now you "are again"?
Ex-gays do so much more damage than maybe we understand. They don't really damage us directly, because we know better. Someone comes up to us and says, "I'm not gay anymore and you don't have to be either", we laugh. It's an outrageous statement to make. It's hilarious. So we shrug it off. No problem.
But these jerks fuel the religious organizations. My father-in-law is a pastor and he believes in ex-gay ministries. He and his wife LOVE hearing stories about ex-gays. They mention it every once in a while. For them, ex-gays legitimize their bigotry. They give hope to all these people who would have us revert "back to" hetrosexuality.
When I was in university, my husband (he was my boyfriend at the time) and I joined the campus Christian group. When they found out we were gay, things changed. They urged us to visit NARTH, email Exodus, and listen to vlogs by Ex-gays... The Christian group could name 20 ex-gays off the top of their heads! So they are more relevant than maybe we give them credit for. Ex-gays have a following.
I can't help but think if there were fewer or no ex-gays to fall back on, my religious friends would be less likely to believe in it.
Prosthetic Conscience -Gay Issues, Ranting and Bad Manners
"Someone who frequently mentions their personal struggle, while idolizing all things conservative, is kinda like watching a woman rape herself and cry about it..."
Prosthetic Conscience -Gay Issues, Ranting and Bad Manners
"Someone who frequently mentions their personal struggle, while idolizing all things conservative, is kinda like watching a woman rape herself and cry about it..."
I'm good at reading between the lines. Tough shit if it bothers you.
He obviously slipped into temptation due to the unrelenting pressure of the homosexual cabal. Maybe he can join OverCum...uh, I mean OverCome.
Lex
Last edited by G-Lexington; February 5th, 2013 at 04:29 PM.
It really doesn't because you're certainly not demonstrating it here. I feel nothing but loathing and disgust for that loser, and you trying to make it as if I've posted some sad lamentation of the "poor pretty boy" is entirely your invention, in your head and you're responsible for it.
It's also trolling.
Prosthetic Conscience -Gay Issues, Ranting and Bad Manners
"Someone who frequently mentions their personal struggle, while idolizing all things conservative, is kinda like watching a woman rape herself and cry about it..."
Prosthetic Conscience -Gay Issues, Ranting and Bad Manners
"Someone who frequently mentions their personal struggle, while idolizing all things conservative, is kinda like watching a woman rape herself and cry about it..."
Prosthetic Conscience -Gay Issues, Ranting and Bad Manners
"Someone who frequently mentions their personal struggle, while idolizing all things conservative, is kinda like watching a woman rape herself and cry about it..."
Not at all. You are bitching at me for supposedly making a sweeping claim when it's "JUST MY OPINION", which should go without saying. Or is anybody here moron enough to think I am Metatron and speak with the voice of God? No, everything I say is my opinion. It is idiotic that you'd start an argument over it.
That said, the psychological response to seeing good looking people fuck it up is different than seeing unattractive people fuck it up. that's a fact, and if either of the two of us cared enough for this dumb argument, I'd go look for research to support it.
Prosthetic Conscience -Gay Issues, Ranting and Bad Manners
"Someone who frequently mentions their personal struggle, while idolizing all things conservative, is kinda like watching a woman rape herself and cry about it..."
I love these "born-again straights". They seem awfully confused.
When you think about the internal struggles that he and others are going through, it truly is sad. They are a contradiction of their own beliefs and they believe their God won't let them love (or act on it, at least).
Balls to the walls hella fuckin awesome.
And this is why I had to give up on organized religion. God made me in his image and likeness, gave me the capacity to give and receive love, but then forbids me from giving or receiving love or else I'm damned for all eternity?! Where the hell's the logic or mercy in that? Just seems sadistic to me.
If his kink is to feel guilt and shame in order to get off, it's not for me to judge. So I don't care if he hates himself if that's what makes him cum harder.
But he needs to lay the fuck off the other gays. And if he wants to fuck someone with HIV bareback, it's his suicide. But he can't go fucking other people for a few more months until Jesus makes him feel bad about sex again. What a dewsh.
Americans need to keep their guns so they can protect themselves from gun violence just like Nancy Lanza did. And like Chris Kyle did. And like Gabby Giffords did. And like Tom Clements did.
I think your distance skews your perception. There are entire denominations that do not teach hell, nor do they endorse it. We have lots of gays on this board that will tell you they don't relocate well or easily.
Suggesting that finding other people is somehow easy presumes a lot about this guy that we don't know. It's obvious he is deeply conflicted, which means his upbringing is apparently NOT easy to set aside easily. Not being brought up in that atmosphere, or not in the South, makes is easy for us to look in and opine about what is or isn't easy.
If he is an atheist, he'll discover that, too, and that will be his choice, but assuming that is required because Christianity is somehow monolithic is just ignorant of the diversity that exists within the religion, as well as ignoring Christian groups that are actually pro-gay.
"... You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you ..." - Colours of the Wind by Vanessa Williams
So has this thread resolved itself? Have we reached a satisfactory conclusion?
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