Posted on 05/02/2006 1:10:54 PM PDT by meandog
His first words were:
Does this mean there isn't going to be a family carpet business after all?
So are you saying that you could have gone either way, but you made a concious decision to be straight? That people are sexual free agents until they choose to like one gender or another?
In a word? Yes.
Oh I've got some rabbinical squigglies up my sleeve pertaining to time dilatation as it relates to the expansion of the universe, but more or less, you've got the idea.
"You are a wise man "
If I have any wisdom, I got it from my parents, who gave me my head and loved me, even when I disappointed them.
"Not all parents should be parents."
That bears repeating.
Because men are more apt to compartmentalize, fixate on parts. Blondes, rather than brunettes. Legs, rather than (as you say) butts. Specific body part or related fetishes - a foot fetish, a smoking fetish as a sexual stimulant - seem to be almost uniquely the province of the male.
I'm not sure why this is, but I bet it is strongly related to the reason men turn off the car radio when they're looking for a parking place.
Man is not an animal. Man can reason and animals cannot. Animals live by instinct and man lives by thought and choice.
The alternative is that humans are born tabula rasa, a blank slate, as far as sexual orientation is concerned. And therefore have to learn to like the opposite sex.
Not so. God created man to multiply and fill the earth (Gen 9:1). Anything opposite that is a learned and conditioned response.
....and when they try, they act like a character in a Tex Avery cartoon.
It's my considered opinion that sex is a swamp with a lot of pyschological/emotional/physical variables at play. Very difficult to untangle.
You are not the enigma you might think. Your assertion the son said nothing bad about the father falls apart on the first reading of the interview.
That his comments are cunningly crafted makes them no less derogatory.
Perhaps... you DID catch me updating the .xls spreadsheet of our stocks and mutual funds between posts....
Joking aside, I take it you see my point?
With the possible exception of the 10 Commandments, I don't recall God writing one single word of the Bible. It was written by man, and man IS indeed flawed.
More to the point, how do you go about determining what parts of the Bible are flawed, and which ones are trustworthy? Your opinion? You've already said that you reject doctrines that don't align with your modern principles (the role of women in worship, etc.) How do you know that your principles are superior to the scriptures?
By tradition and REASON, as God gave me a mind to think...ahd I think NOT that God's entire universe was created in six 24-hour days. I also think that God allows for persons believe as they believe...then again, God allows for ignorance to cloud religion too (check out Copernicus and his fight with earlier age fundamentalists regarding heliocentric theory)
The Bible is either true, or it is flawed. Would you fly in an airplane with parts that did not work together? Of course not. How much less would you trust your eternal state to a flawed and inconsitant holy book.
The Bible is neither completely true, nor is it completely true...like any law, history, or theological book it is< IMHO< to be regarded in shades of gray rather than in black or white (i.e. Jesus admonishing those ready to stone the adulteress)
If you're not sure where you stand on this issue, you may find this of interest: Dr. Robert Spitzer Interviewed In 'Christianity Today' Magazine. Read that very carefully. Take special note of who Dr. Spitzer is, what he used to think and what he thinks and says now.
Now couple the above with the very important results of the Twins Studies, a summary of what science has stated and the extremely important growing number of ex-gays:
People Can ChangeAfter reading the above links you should have a better understanding of the issues.
I Do Exist
Yup, for me it is!
"....and when they try, they act like a character in a Tex Avery cartoon."
So easy to picture, if you're a fan of animation, like I am. The tongue all the way out, feet in the air, eyes out on stems, and the "aaaaoooooogah!" noise in the background....
But there are some people who are suddenly skeptical when one claims to be ex-gay. They don't believe the ex-gay claim, they don't believe the ex-gay testimony nor their declaration that they are ex-gay.
When somebody uses a certain standard to measure the credibility of what one group says, but then refuses to use the same standard to measure the credibility of what another group says--thereby ignoring the claims of the second group (ex-gays)--he should ask himself why he believes one group and not the other... This is a double standard.
Well, as for me, I have to believe that God, along with the universe, also created laws of astrophysics, string theory, weak and strong forces of gravity, etc. that would make such an event an impossibility.
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