"Words with a 'k' in it are funny. Alkaseltzer is funny. Chicken is funny. Pickle is funny. All with a 'k'. 'L's are not funny. 'M's are not funny. Cupcake is funny. Tomatoes is not funny. Lettuce is not funny. Cucumber's funny. Cab is funny. Cockroach is funny -- not if you get 'em, only if you say 'em."


http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon How to use a semi colon
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/who_vs_whom Who vs Whom -- Simply answer your own question: If the answer is 'He', use 'who', if the answer is 'Him', use 'whom'.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/ie - "I.e" is an abbreviation of a Latin phrase meaning "That is". It's not used for listing examples; it's used for clarifying statements. Think of it as "In essence" or "in other words".
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm - When to use a comma.



http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Mumbling-and-Speak-Clearly - Stop mumbling and speak clearer.
http://www.wikihow.com/Walk-Confidently - Walk confidently.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9VGSjFLodo&list=UUWZmmDqEJv277d7hBa1nRfg&index=40 - Candito's favourite squat mobility exercise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka7Dstckhjg&list=UUWZmmDqEJv277d7hBa1nRfg&index=25 - Correcting squat bar path, 2 drills included.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVBUgvsMNtk&index=78&list=UUWZmmDqEJv277d7hBa1nRfg - Bench press with leg drive - Bring feet back as far as you can while keeping heels planted on the ground - flex quads and glutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1f6mk1aVuA - Why You Shouldn't Worry About Butt Wink (Slight Lumbar Flexion During Squat).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNqKn6axcSM - Increase mobility to squat deep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta6NAgDzqgw - How to prevent lower back rounding in the deadlift.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-siVhUVReA - Preventing spinal hyperextension in power lifting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaYfXe3FBUQ - Explanation of leg drive in bench press.


http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=70649131&f=104 Poker guide

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=64263219&f=149 - Big thread of gifs

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=71041432&f=119 - Ask a Christian anything

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=71409425&f=119 - The politics of spanking

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=71477892&f=119 - Entitlement mentality gone wild

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=71489568&f=119 - Abortion

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=71531435&f=119 - Personhood for chimp

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=71314386&f=60 - Drop box of biomedical books, articles etc

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=71438007&f=21 - D2 Obscurities



http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/12/20/how-to-be-awesome-at-approaching-people/ - How to be awesome at approaching people

http://psychcentral.com/lib/saying-no-kindly-and-then-letting-go/0009945 - Saying no kindly and then letting go.

http://psychcentral.com/lib/6-ways-to-overcome-social-anxiety/00017631 - 6 ways to overcome social anxiety.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz5vEfa7UvI&list=PL86F4D497FD3CACCE - Honest movie trailers - HILARIOUS

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=293087637564390&id=175556779317477 - Micros
100 mg Fe/ 400 mcg Folate
Iron
Vitamin C
Thiamin and Riboflavin (b2 and b6)
Iodine - 150-200 mcg
Zinc - 1500-2000 mcg
Copper - 15,000 mcg
Potassium - 2-2.5x as much of it as you would do in an average diet's sodium intake. Taking 3,000mg a day of sodium? Supplement with 6-7500mg of potassium. That's a lot, but it's necessary.



"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work." - c.c

"Nothing in this worl can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; The world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge

"You are wht your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny."

"How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?"

"Talk doesn't cook rice."

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

"It's hard to beat a person who doesn't give up."

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

"The only place where 'success' comes before 'work' is in the dictionary."

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always have what you've already got."





When writing an Essay:
DO NOT use contractions - eg. She will - she'll

Avoid these words:
Is
Am
Are
Was
Were
Eg. Instead of "there is change" - "we can see a change".
"There was a lot of noise in the kitchen -- the noise in the kitchen seemed loud."

Put "I believe that" or "I realize that" infront of sentences - if it doesn't make sense, it's a fragment.

Use commas to separate complete sentences when they are joined by the "fanboys" = For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.
Remember the "I believe that" rule to distinguish whether a comma is needed or not. Eg. She liked my dog but not my cat. If I added a comma "not my cat" would be a fragment.

Use a semi colon before a xxx, word.
Eg.
; therefore,
; for instance,
; however,

A colon joins a fragment that defines, clarifies or presents more info about some item in the first sentence.
Eg.
A large car blocked my driveway. A huge SUV. (WRONG)
A large car blocked my driveway; a huge SUV. (RIGHT)

The fact that you haven't managed to die by choking on your tongue while you blathered has already impressed me some.

And this is why democracy can never work. Because people like this have as much voting clout as you or I.

You're just afterbirth xxx, slithered out from your mothers filth. They should have put you in a little jar on a mantle piece.

If I wanted a joke i'd follow you into the toilet and watch you take a piss.

You should really consider cloning yourself, so you can go and fuck yourself.

To me you're somewhere between a cockroach and that white stuff that accumulates in the corner of your mouth when you're thirsty.

If ignorance were a disability you'd get the full pension.

Mate, you couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were stuck on the heel.

Suck butter from my ass.

My dick in your whore mothers ribcage.

You're as thick as a bulls walt.

Graze on my ass hair.

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=116597751 - Guide to take away and eating out

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=2845231 - Nutrients and where to find them.



"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviour. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny."




We should fear god (matthew 10:28)
We should love god (Matthew 22:37)
There is no fear in love (1 John 4:18)

Jacob said, 'i have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.' (genesis 32:30)
No man hath seen God at any time (John 1:18)

"for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger forever" (Jeremiah 3:12)
"ye have killed a fire in mine anger, which shall burn forever." (Jeremiah 17:4)


Flat world:
Daniel 4:11 "the tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the ENDS OF ALL THE EARTH" (how could one tree be seen by all the Earth it they knew the earth was round?)

Matthew 4:8 "again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them" (same idea here)

Vs round world!
Isaiah 40:21-22 do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded? 22 He sits enthroned above the Circe of Te earth, and it's people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

Earth abides forever:
Ecclesiastes 1:4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

Within the belief systems of Christianity, many controls are set up to discourage you from leaving. Rewards and threats are employed liberally. Stick with it and you'll gain eternal life. Abandon it and you're doomed to hell. Once enough people are integrated into such a system, the social conditioning becomes self reinforcing. Members help to keep each other in line.

Recognize that you're dealing with a control structure. When you see enforcement based on the promise of rewards an punishments, you're not witnessing real truth. You're witnessing marketing masquerading as truth.

Did you know that there are actually more versions of The new testament than there are words in it. Some experts say there are more than 200,000 versions now. Some say 400,000. Many of those versions have radically different meanings, and again, none of them can be said to contain the original "inspired words of god". What we have are error-filled copies of copies of copies of copies that have been passed down inaccurately for centuries.

So if you say you believe in the bible, you'd better specify exactly which version you claim to believe in. And you must also face the fact that what you claim to believe is by what god actually inspired people to write. You're actually putting your faith in some scribes interpretation.



Who created god?
Assuming god exists, nothing, he was the first cause.
Assuming he doesn't, nothing, he doesn't exist.
The cosmological argument is quite misunderstood. The argument, basically, says that the universe must have had a cause because it is a physical manifestation, it is contingent. IF the universe began to exist (this is the tough point), then it must have been caused by a non-contingent being. In other words, god.

But why not go another step down the chain of causality.. What if gods god created everything? This is redundant thanks to occams razor. the universe itself could be outside of the realm of causality, while causality reigns within it. God is an unnecessary link in the causative chain.



Existence exists because existence's purpose is to exist.



Epicurus-
"is god willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able not willing? Then why call him god?

*argument* ^^
>The malevolent line-
"this isn't an objective fact, it's strictly an assumption, an what makes the whole argument fall apart"

*response*
"the ability to prevent harm of evil implies a moral obligation to do so. Especially since such omnipotence would mean there is no risk or cost associated with acting. By choosing to remain passive in the face of brutality one demonstrates a preference for it".

*argumentors response*
"not when intervening would change the entire concept of life as we know it. God gave us the freedom to do good or do evil, and thinks its worth the cost to have some pain in the grand scheme of the implications of having that choice. After all, pain is intrinsically evil, and the purpose of life isn't necessarily to avoid pain."

*Response*
- "wars, plagues, rapes, and murders are not mere instances of pain. Some mundane error is neither evil not would it render gods abstention malevolent. However a god that allows people to drop atomic bombs, rape and murder, mutilate women and torture people is indeed being malevolent. "

*another arguer*
"the ability to prevent harm or evil implies a moral obligation to do so.. According to whom?"

*response*
"by virtue of being benevolent"

*arguer again*
"benevolent to whom, the individual or the greater good of the masses?"

*response*
"is rape good for the masses? What about war..? There is no coherent argument to make that it does anyone any good. There is an old historical theory that war is a good thing since basically all technological innovation may be linked to it in one way or another, ok fine, now let's imagine if we did research without killing each other in the process.
If god was perfect, wouldn't it be more perfect to prevent harm rather than to encourage or aid it".





*separate response to epicurus*
" is god willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent"
-God doesn't prevent anything.
-God is not for the good nor for the bad.
-god is for the abundance of whatever you desire.

"is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent."
-god is able to do everything that you desire.
-god is neutral.

"is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?"
-god is neutral, he is only for the abundance.

This post was edited by FrozenWater on Nov 6 2014 03:29am

“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.”
― Winston S. Churchill



http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=71323876&f=276 -- Best gifs



Remembering quotes:
Remember certain words that aren't extremely common, such as words like: the, are etc.
Now that you have your key words, link each word with a mental image. For example: we, stuff and dreams, linked by imagining yourself stuff a pot of tea (tea rhymes with we), full of dreams.
Once you have constructed the links, go through the collection of images again. Making sure that you see (in your minds eye) every detail. After doing this, read the quote again.


Either we're currently living in a simulated reality, or it's impossible to simulate reality.


"Photosynthetical
I want em botanical
And im kind of theoretical
Quantom mechanical
Alphabetical,
a word puritanical
Not a hypothetical
I rule tyrannical
Tyrannical-saurus-Rex
Fuck the system
Solar plexus
A lone star Texas,
yeah,
Too smart to be sexist,
hey"

"Haters suck my dick
Handle the candle
lick the wick."

"Lyrical acrobat
This is the lyrical
mathematician,
the lyrical aftermath
Is it part due to the fact that
rap's elastic addict acts
dismissive?
Too smart to be dismissed
It's hard to miss the bist"

"Kids can't cut it
but they try a
wrist, shit
Got nothin' on
me, I'm a nihilist."

"I'm the man muffin, divin', muffin,
Cold and hot like an arctic puffin,
Puffin whacky tobaccy
Hatin' other rappers like I'm Helga
Pataki"

"I got a dick full of helium, I'll fuck you up."

"I got a safe ull of cherries, cause I pop it and lock it."

"I'm offensive and creative like handicapped porn."

"I'm like Doug's friend Skeeter
whenever I meet her
Cause I skeet her so hard you could
call her Patty Mayonnaise."

"My girl is epileptic cause she's the
one I'm jerkin with
Common you Asian child laborer
show me what your workin with.."

"Booty so big call it Oprah's ego."

"Pull it out, stick it in your mouth, and
I bust in the back of ya,
Swallow bitch! There's people
starving in Africa."

"My junk is bipolar, it'll split you in half
And if you're lucky, I might just bring
you home,
And I'll have you going down like
you're growing an extra chromosome."

"I love you like kings love queens
Like a gay geneticist loves designer
jeans
Like Hitlers father needed to learn to
pull out
And I love you like a lawyer wants
some kind of proof
And I love you like JFK wanted a car
with a roof."

"Cause love is taking a dive, then
getting really comfortable and
peeing in the pool
And love is real life porn minus all
the stuff that makes porn cool
And love is a homeless guy
searching for treasure in the middle
of the rain and finding a bag of gold
coins and slowly finding out that
they're filled with choclate and
even though he's heartbroken he
can't complain cause he was hungry
in the first place."

"I want you like all the gothic kids that
look exactly the same
Never want to conform
And I want you like Anne Frank
wanted no one to read her diary."

"And if we met in 10000BC I was your
caveman youz my cavelady
If we got hot we'd start rubbing
If we got hungry we'd go clubbing
There's wooly mammoths but I will
protect us
You're making me devolve into a
homo-erectus."

"If I had a dollar for every time you
asked me for a dollar I still wouldn't
give you a dollar."





"They call em fingers but I never see 'em fing.." - Otto

Procrastination is like masturbation; you're only screwing yourself.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers tjustice among men who conduct their own affairs.

In the end, everything has its strengths and weaknesses and neither of these strengths and weaknesses make either xxx more of less important. Just like the stars in the sky; no star should grow too bright nor too dim, for the balance of light is what creates the beauty in a constellation.

The glass is half empty and half full.

Don't be afraid to lose. Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.

What's the difference between a good leader and a talented manipulator?

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything -- Albert Einstein

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere but in the mind ---- He who fears something. gives it power over him.

Great spirits have always faced violent opposition from mediocre minds.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turned out.

Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.

If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

The secret to happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

For every minute you're angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Hitler wasn't such a bad guy. After all he did kill Hitler.

Hatred originating from disreputable gentlemen is going to continually persist.

Advance towards me brethren.

Darwinianism is the only working architectural theory of our origins. An organism is an integrated collection of problem solving devices - adaptations - that were shaped by natural selection over evolutionary time to promote, in some specific way, the survival of the genes that directed their construction.

Religion as an idea is an evolutionary by product of cognitive mechanisms designed for other purposes. Religion as an idea is the use of social cognition's, agency detection and precautionary reasoning. Just like reading and writing are cultural by-products. Every religions idea is a human concept with some alterations.

Just as you can imagine yourself talking to someone in your head, you can imagine yourself talking to a dead relative. You can even imagine yourself talking to god. When you have a loved one die, you can still catch yourself talking to them. It's because of our social cognitive's. And that's why it isnt that much of a stretch to believe in souls, or an afterlife.
Whenever you see a shadow, you think of a burglar, but whenever you see a burglar you don't think it's a shadow.
Intuitive reasoning creates the connection for those and religion.
Minimally counter intuitive worlds are an optimal compromise between the interesting and the expected. It gives us attention arresting and is thus memorable.
If I told you that the big tree near your house can do your laundry, reprogram your computer and mow your lawns, you wouldn't believe me. But if I told you that the big tree near your house, on the night of a full moon it can grant you a wish..

Half of all 4 year olds have an imaginary friend. Children can spontaneously invent the concept of god without adult involvement.
These mechanisms that we're born with make us all very vulnerable to religious ideas (eg. the wishing tree).
It's disbelief that is cognitively a little bit harder.
The attachment mechanism is the fundamental care taking system in mammals. Think about religions. You're in distress, you turn to a caretaker, you turn to an attachment figure.
1.7 million years ago, they found a skeleton of a female that had severe vitamin a deficiency. This means her bones and joints were aching. It's a terrible way to die. But they found something quite peculiar.
There was new bone growth; about 4 months worth. That means that for 4 months, someone was taking care of her. Getting her food and water and protecting her. The attachment system is seen even 1.7 million years ago.
Even nowadays, the fear of loss of attachment, we seek another outcome. Even if it means to put up with something we dont like.

Another example of our 'cognitive software' is how we can make a sophisticated assumption on someone's emotional state based on simply looking at their eyes.





To answer the question of, "without religion where would we get our morals" .. Do we really want to take our morals straight from the rather rigid book of an ancient desert tribe?

SLEEP

The average adult needs about 7 hours of sleep.
Teenagers under 15 may need about 10 hours of sleep as they are in a state of metabolic growth.
15 + need roughly 8 hours but can function to full capacity on around 7.

10 year olds: 9-9.5 hours sleep
12 year olds: 8-8.5 hours sleep
16-18 year olds: 7 hours sleep

Researchers at a high school found that:
7 hours 21 minutes of sleep – students got A’s and B’s
7 hours 4 minutes of sleep – C’s
6 hours 48 minutes – D’s and F’s

80 minutes more of a sleep-in before a test will increase results dramatically.
A 17 year old voluntarily deprived himself of sleep for 260 continuous hours – 11 days – for a sleep deprivation study. It took him merely 4 days to fully recover from the lack of sleep.

"Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together".

How to fall asleep better:
Bedroom
-Get rid of the clock by your bedside.
Daytime
-No naps.
-No sleep-ins
Evening
-No heavy meals late at night.
Bedtime
-Get ready for bed in good time and wait for a wave of sleepiness – we have one about every 90 minutes – learn to recognise yours.
-Have warm milk.
-Enjoy a warm bath – a shower is ok, but a good soak is best.
-Do relaxing activities – music, tv, comp game, reading – not school work if it stresses you.
-Think positively about getting into your snug, calm bed.
In bed
-Make sure your feet are not too hot or too cold.
-Any anxious thoughts or worries need to be gently pushed aside – think positively.
-Tell yourself a series of ‘feel good’ statements, such as: ‘resting in bed is nice’, ‘I feel calm’. Only use words that make you feel good, like – snug, nice, rest, pleasant, good, cosy, comfortable and safe.
-Smile.

Potential ‘Good sleep’ inducers: Music
-Guitar, piano or soft harp type music can have positive effects on relaxing the brain.
-Music that you love can also have positive effects.
-Some find that only music without words is helpful.
-Natural sounds assist some with sleep.

Sleep after study – After study allow yourself 1 hour of ‘wind-down’ time before sleep.

Same- sex marriages

It’s about religion.
No, it isn’t. Going to church is about religion. Loving thy neighbour is about religion. Marriage is a secular contract presided over by Government. Like taxes. Atheists get married. Religious people get married. Some churches won’t marry inter-racial couples, or previously divorced couples. They’re welcome to. That’s their right. But that doesn’t preclude these people from marriage altogether. Because it’s secular.

Legalising gay marriage only affects a small number of people, why bother?
There are two flaws with this. If we’d followed this logic then we would have had no black civil rights movement. And asking ‘why bother’ about a human rights imbalance is a little like ignoring the service station when your car is on fire and your face is melting. Tis merely a flesh wound, come back and I’ll bite your knee caps off! The ‘only them’ argument has consistently been shown, throughout history, to be reprehensible. We cannot afford to stand by while ‘only them’ becomes a chorus of our own inability to act. One day, and this is the lesson we still haven’t learned, ‘only them’ could become ‘only you’. It’s a lonely outpost. Would they care to make the same argument about disability funding?

It’s about procreation.
Then you might also want to ban marriages that take place later in life, beyond a couple’s child bearing years. Or you might consider banning marriage for heterosexual couples who don’t want children. Families are about procreation or adoption or surrogacy. Marriage is about love between two individuals. The idea that we must procreate to protect the human race was spawned, forgive the pun, during a time when sabre toothed tigers were an actual health threat and actual health care consisted of medicinal screaming.

We have more important problems to deal with!
This is disingenuous. Yes, I will help you with your civil rights movement but really, this trash isn’t going to take itself out. This is a familiar refrain. We have to fix health care! We have to fix the welfare system! And we do, we do. But if Government’s cannot multi-task, especially to instate a basic right of equality, then we are all in a little bit of trouble.

It’s a slippery slope. Just wait until The Gays can marry their brothers. Who are also animals.
Consent. Repeat after me. Animals cannot provide consent and beastiality is an avenue where consent cannot be provided in a ‘loving’ relationship. Unless you’re donkey has a Speak ‘n’ Say, there is no consent. And there are medical reasons why incest is frowned upon. But there is no decent, scientific, medical or moral reason why two loving, consenting, non-related adults should not be afforded the same rights as the majority.

I totally agree, but let’s not call it marriage. Let them have civil unions!
Ahem. Let them eat cake? Those who adopt this argument can be the most frustrating as this is the one that glosses over the exact issue at stake here. This isn’t about every gay wanting to marry. This isn’t about the words themselves. It’s about what the options are and who has access to them. Apartheid South Africa had a water fountain for blacks and water fountains for whites. Essentially, nobody is missing out except that they’re both lapping at an entrenched division made possible by discrimination. Call it whatever you want. Call it Skiddlepop, if you must, but give it to everybody. If one doesn’t, then discrimination continues. Refusing to amend the marriage act is tantamount to saying The Gays are not worthy of the institution. And blacks aren’t worthy of the same drinking fountains, nor women the vote. Oh, history, it’s like an embarrassing echo.

It’s about tradition
It seems to be the Prime Minister’s favourite excuse. It’s a silly one. Here are some other traditional things: slavery, women not being allowed to vote (yes, that’s right Ms Gillard), legwarmers, witch hunts, lynchings, stonings, horses as a principal means of transport, sacrifices of disabled children to the Gods, living in caves.
Integrating a society and expanding human rights has always shattered tradition, and we have consistently been better off for it.
Yeah, an argument of ‘tradition’ is an argument against meaningful progress. Good luck with that one and all.

1 - Denying couples the right to marry is a violation of religious freedom (civil and religious marriages are two separate institutions).
2 - Marriage benefits (such as joint ownership, medical decision-making capacity) should be available to all couples.
3 - Homosexuality is an accepted lifestyle nowadays with most evidence strongly supporting biological causation.
4 - Denying these marriages is a form of minority discrimination.
5 - It doesn't hurt society or anyone in particular.
6 - The only thing that should matter in marriage is love.
7 - The number of child adoptions should increase since gay couples cannot pro-create.
8 - It encourages people to have strong family values and give up high-risk sexual lifestyles.
9 - The same financial benefits that apply to man-woman marriages apply to same-sex marriages.




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SO YOU STILL THINK HOMOSEXUALITY IS SINFUL?
-BECAUSE JESUS SAID SO:
Not true. Jesus never uttered a word about same sex relationships.
-BECAUSE THE OLD TESTAMENT SAID SO:
The O.T. also says it’s sinful to eat shellfish, to wear clothes woven with different fabrics, and to eat pork.
-BECAUSE THE NEW TESTAMENT SAYS SO:
The original language of the N.T. actually refers to male prostitution, molestation, or promiscuity, not committed same-sex relationships. Paul may have spoken against homosexuality, but he also said that women should be silent and never assume authority over a man.
-BECAUSE GOD MADE ADAM AND EVE, NOT ADAM AND STEVE:
That was when the Earth wasn’t populated. There are now over 7 billion people. Breeding clearly isn’t an issue anymore.
-BECAUSE THE BIBLE CLEARLY DEFINES MARRIAGE AS ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN:
Wrong. The bible also defines marriage as one-man-many-women, one man many wives and many concubines, a rapist and his victim and conquering soldier and female prisoner of war.


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Gay marriage is bad because the bible says so. Leviticus 20:13 “if a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads”.
The truth – You have to look at the context and the meaning behind the words. Leviticus was all about putting things into categories and different categories did not mix. So technically you break God’s law if you wear clothes that are a blend of two different fibers. Divorce is also condemned in Leviticus but we don’t forbid people to divorce. Also, you should be condemned if you touch a woman in any way within 7 days of her period. What Leviticus actually meant in “man shall not lie with man as he does with a woman” means a man should not treat a fellow man as his inferior as he would a woman, because treating a man as a woman was wrong. Back then, every woman belonged to some man, either her father or her husband. Having sex after the wedding to consummate the marriage was the man officially claiming ownership of his new woman. If you have sex with a virgin woman, then you had damaged another man’s property. So in essence, Leviticus was property law.




This post was edited by FrozenWater on Nov 6 2014 07:59am