03-29-2017, 10:25 AM
(03-29-2017, 01:13 AM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:(03-29-2017, 12:31 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Actually, there are credible reports that the cardinals and priests over there in Rome town like to live it up, perhaps in disguise, at the local bars and clubs, with any available bimbo or queen; ya know, they just gotta party, make up for all that celibate lost time. And being gay is a natural for an occupation in which you are not allowed to be married; ya know! It's true!
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/1...ch-vatican
Oh, yeah! I just wallow in the hypocrisy of organized religion of all sorts. Lesse, we have the link you posted along with assorted Oklahoma politicians who are Bible thumpers getting caught engaging in sex with child prostitutes. Yes, that's true as well. Of course, I'd prefer assorted religious flakes would just butt out of my life, man. You see, I enjoy assorted "sins". Mind altering chemicals, gambling, raging against the machine, so to speak, and overall rebelliousness are my style! So yeah, my maternal grandmother was pretty much a prude on [these thing], but not these [other things] is not amenable to logic. I bet she was happy that she passed before I entered my really rebellious teen years.
The only mind-altering substance for which I have any use is alcohol, and not much at a time -- enough to drown my anxiety. Of course my metabolism isn't what it used to be, so I don't hold liquor well. Gambling is a rip-off, and I don't enjoy parting with money. If I am to give up something, it had better be for something good.
Quote:The "gay" issue. This is also dumb. Homosexuality has been noted for a long time. The way I see it, is that homosexuality is not a "lifestyle choice", but is predetermined by some interaction between genetics and environment. IE. folks who are homosexual have no choice in the matter. That means any entity that sees things otherwise is hopelessly naive.
I do not understand homosexuality. I suppose that I would have to be a homosexual to understand it. But I see myself as a moral person, and I recognize happiness as a virtue. If the only love that some men can experience is with other men or that the only love that some women can enjoy is with fellow women, then homosexuality is no vice. It's only when one messes with children (a destructive, exploitative act) that homosexuality becomes inexcusable -- not that such is so with heterosexuality.
Rationality isn't enough; people could be very rational and systematic in condemning witches, aristocrats, kulaks, or Jews to mass death. Much of what I love -- art, music, and nature -- depends upon some measure of irrationality. Love isn't very rational, either.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.