tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197085881344465476.post781871229705402983..comments2023-10-24T14:38:36.695+03:00Comments on Living Outside Time: The Controversy that is Homosexuality and The Hope for the Higher Light.Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197085881344465476.post-45209969743635831472008-07-31T02:00:00.000+03:002008-07-31T02:00:00.000+03:00Hi Adam,Thanks for the compliment.I'll presume tha...Hi Adam,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the compliment.<BR/><BR/>I'll presume that you are straight, just because most men are, but it would be interesting to hear any corroboration of the perspectives you mention from gay men...if any are out there, reading this. Or denials and refutations from them, of course, with arguments.<BR/><BR/>After all, I'm not gay and so am not uniquely privileged to write about homosexuality in the way gay men are. Robert Lee, however, was gay(or is - depending on how 'essentialistic' you consider homosexuality to be).<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I think people are often obsessively attached to their belief systems or models; perhaps the more so the more we consider our core identity to be intellectual.<BR/><BR/>The will to power hasn't always expressed itself in the context of belief systems. Simple, straightforward war and murder used to suffice. In those days people didn't feel so much the need to argue for and defend their perspectives.<BR/><BR/>Yes, less pride, more understanding.<BR/><BR/>Problem is, there can sometimes be valid arguments for both the resisting of a certain kind of campaign to corrode our pride and a certain kind of appeal to the mind to be open to multiple perspectives.<BR/><BR/>If, for example you are being asked to give up your pride and your localized sense of native identity just so somebody else, perhaps very cleverly and craftily, and in the name of some kind of 'liberal universalism', can get you to submit yourselves to them -in a manner that in no way diminishes their pride, or advances a feeling in them that they should themselves question their own perspectives.<BR/><BR/>Or to put it simply, the dangers of what can be called political correctness, or 'liberal fascism' –which all to often want us to take pride in not being ourselves, and to understand every perspective except our own – in the name of taking pride in and understanding only the ‘universal’ –as that ‘universal’ is mediated to us by a bodiless, impersonal, ideological abstraction.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197085881344465476.post-85115876617698715322008-07-30T14:18:00.000+03:002008-07-30T14:18:00.000+03:00You've hit the nail on the head there with peoples...You've hit the nail on the head there with peoples perception of homosexuality, a homosexual's perception of his own homosexuality and how his own homosexuality perceived by everyone else. <BR/><BR/>Is it human nature that we seek dominance of our views and belief over everyone else? Probably. Is that the route of many of the tensions in the world today? Probaby!<BR/><BR/>I'm left wishing that there was a little less pride in the world and a lot more understanding.<BR/><BR/>I really enjoy your blog, keep up the good work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197085881344465476.post-1907570714916482382008-07-27T19:28:00.000+03:002008-07-27T19:28:00.000+03:00...for my reply see: GOOD AND EVIL...for my reply see: <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://selenadreamy.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">GOOD AND EVIL</A>Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197085881344465476.post-13259496645598094212008-07-27T13:54:00.000+03:002008-07-27T13:54:00.000+03:00Well, since I can prove nothing with regards to my...Well, since I can prove nothing with regards to my understanding of God according to standards of proof acceptable to the scientific community, I can only recoil that "you may be right".<BR/><BR/>Interestingly, however (well, to me), you seem less sceptical or open to humility regarding your own knowledge claims regarding the uncreated one.<BR/><BR/>Obviously, this scenario that God wishes for is dependednt on a major act of metanoia on the part of humanity. In the absence of such a metanoia (such a turning around of the mind..also referred to by the somewhat 'crusty' word repentance), I can well see that, yes, it would be mere wishful thinking. So yes, I'd accept that if there be no God, indeed it would be this.<BR/><BR/>As for appeasement, who is it that God would be appeasing? Are you talking about Mr Satan, by any chance? Or who?<BR/><BR/>God I love your shoes. It's ok, you can keep them:) In Islamic culture if you say you like something, the owner can often feel obliged to yield them up. Isn't that funny.<BR/><BR/>xJonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197085881344465476.post-10328423005418419942008-07-27T13:43:00.000+03:002008-07-27T13:43:00.000+03:00“God, The Prince of Peace, wishes his children, th...<I>“God, The Prince of Peace, wishes his children, the men and women of Planet Earth, to love one another and to live in peace. This means that he wants, not only men and women, the two halves of the human family, to love one another, as they do not too much of the time; but that women love women and that men love men. The purpose of this love is not that we should experience rhapsodic epiphanies of sexual delight ...but that hatred, fear, oppression, and cruelty and suffering should be banished from the surface of the Earth.”</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>An act of wishful thinking, at best, Jonathan, or, at worst, of appeasement - and nobody knows that better than God Himself ...<BR/><BR/>D.Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.com