My grandmother still thinks it's a choice, but she's at least of the mindset that "they can make whatever choice they want and let them be happy with it" so at least that's a start.
But if she thinks "they can make whatever choice they want and let them be happy with it", then why does it matter whether or not she thinks it's a choice?
Non-heterosexuality is OK because all consensual sex is OK - nothing else should matter there as far as I'm concerned.
I'm sickened by humanity most of the time, I read something and bang, I watch something and bang, I hear about something... you guessed it. I think people that aren't spontaneous are the cause.
My grandmother still thinks it's a choice, but she's at least of the mindset that "they can make whatever choice they want and let them be happy with it" so at least that's a start.
But if she thinks "they can make whatever choice they want and let them be happy with it", then why does it matter whether or not she thinks it's a choice?
Non-heterosexuality is OK because all consensual sex is OK - nothing else should matter there as far as I'm concerned.
I was more or less just showing the different vantage points I'm dealing with. She doesn't think homosexuality it's right. She doesn't agree with it herself, but she doesn't get offended by gay people. She still thinks it's a wrong choice to make but doesn't get bent out of shape regarding the people who do make that choice.
To her, at least from what I can gather, it's more of a preferential difference in an everyday thing. I like Coke, she likes Pepsi but she's not going to gag every time I drink Coke in front of her.
I personally agree with your philosophy: consensual sex is consensual sex. Love is love. I guess for me I just don't think someone just wakes up and "chooses" to be gay. I guess that's why it still kinda stands out to me, ya know?
I don't know if I'm making my point any clearer or not :-(. I'm not the most articulate at 3:30 in the morning.
Who would have thought Charlie Chaplin would have such an awesome voice.
I'm a fatalist and a cynic. Losing faith in humanity comes with the territory.
But OP, saying you've "lost faith in humanity" because a guy in high school spread a rumour about you and you missed out on a girl? That's pretty shallow. There are a lot worse things in the world to be cynical about.
I dunno, The threads on both Moviebobs latest video and the latest Jimquisition video both make me feel sick. I think it was someone declaring that homosexuality was a mental illness that did it. Oh, the fact that "White Knight" exists as a derogatory term. It both confuses AND sickens me.
Oh, and to inject socialism into this?
The fact that if the worlds richest 100 people all gave away half of their wealth poverty could be abolished within a year.
The fact that whilst writing this many children have died of a mixture of starvation, malaria, diahorrea... I am not even going to get into it. And that could be stopped. But noone cares.
World of Warcraft players sign away 10 pounds a month to play a rather boring (Be honest with yourself) game yet it is almost impossible to get someone to give 7 pounds a month to a charity.
To keep food prices up many nations burn excess food or recycle it into fertilizer/pig meal.
In an effort to make money, futures trading on staple food sources has directly led to the deaths of many thousands yet those responsible have not committed a crime.
It is not a crime to commit homeopathic fraud. By "Homeopathic Fraud" I mean claiming that a homeopathic remedy works better than a similarly administered placebo.
The man directly responsible for tens of thousands (If not hundreds of thousands) of deaths in Africa for claiming VITAMIN PILLS worked better than anti-retrovirals to treat HIV AIDS.
I would like to mention that
"gave away half of their wealth poverty could be abolished within a year."
isn't true, simply due to rules about how economic value works.
But I think I get what you mean. You don't want to see poverty abolished, you want to see hunger abolished, no?
I'm getting particularly pissed off by what's going on in Afghanistan right now. We've spent 11 years trying to turn that madhouse of a country into a functioning, secure state that will be friendly to the West. Now this ridiculous shit is happening.
We're basically going to pull out, and leave behind a new Saudi Arabia. Whatever happened to the new world order?
I hate people that can't take a joke. And I don't mean they just don't have a sense of humor, I mean they just can't take one.
My social life was adapted to and shaped around the Hash House Harriers, and for that, I have been left with the thought process of "If you can't take a joke, don't give one." Basically those that outright insult you, with no hint of humor in their tone and then get mad when you insult them back, claiming they were joking.
Another thing that ticks me off are people that jump to conclusions. I did something like this in my "Stop Hating JB" Thread, but I wasn't assuming every reader liked who I mentioned or wants fame and fortune, but somehow that was interpreted, I can see why.
But for example:
Recently after my several years of not being part of highschool, I was in a small school where eleventh and twelfth grade are made up of thirteen students. When having a conversation of our relationships with our parents, I mentioned that my mother and I are like close friends. Immediately, this [for lack of a better word] ***** outright slanders and insults me in the simple words "I hate it when parents try to be their children's friends..."
Just to show why that insulted me, I was left without a social environment for two and a half years, my only real friend through out that time was indeed my mother. On the other hand, my mother is also not one of those parents that is trying to be her son's friend. Her and I share a lot of similar interests, and believe it or not SHE's the one that introduced me to Star Wars and Star Trek and Transformers and Lord of the Rings. She sat with me when I watched Power Rangers growing up.
My mother doesn't pretend to be my friend, because she is my friend. She doesn't do anything to try and protect me. She's aware of who I am and what I am and knows I am perfectly fine with taking care of myself, and she is the one that understands me out of my two parents. Where as my dad pushes me to succeed in life, my mother supports me. Since when as having a close relationship with your parent a bad thing?
With all my some-what ranting aside, point-in-case, your parents may be cooler than you think.
Did I miss the memo that it was cool to be cynical now? Ok yes humanity does some horrible disgusting things no doubt about that, but come on people. Sitting around talking about how you lost faith in humanity isn't going to do anything. If it makes you sick then do something about it. We as human beings have the amazing ability to overcome anything including bigotry, hatred, and stupidity.
Where do I begin? Maybe I'm being cynical, but when I found out what people were capable of, became wary of them and their intentions... or maybe I'm just paranoid, who knows?
When i go on the daily mail website and read the comments posted under the articles these are real people posting their hate filled opinions on the matter it just sickens me how pesmestic and horrible people are.
Whenever statistics about how much aid money actually reaches those in need get published. It sickens me to see how absolutely corrupt these "aid agencies" are; maybe not from a legal standpoint, but certainly from a moral one. The first class flights, stupidly high executive fees and naivety when dealing with officials from governments of questionable repute; "why yes, have all our aid money, we trust you'll not spend it on foreign cars, weapons and the like"... *sigh*
Whenever I open a history text book.
Whenever I watch the news for more than five seconds.
Whenever I open up the "comments" section on nearly any site.
There are plenty of examples, but honestly? I'm becoming somewhat numb to the daily deluge of sickening things individual members of our species do.
Which is quite nice, actually, because it allows me to focus on the good bits that much more.
In your case in particular? Highschool sucks. It passes. Kids suck, the next generation of kids suck, and all the following generations of kids will suck too. "Suck" insofar as having the inability to be remotely empathetic toward their peers. That sort of thing comes with age.
Hopefully.
In short, relax. The years fly by, believe me. I swear, I was 15 like a month ago.
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