Brokeback Mountain

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Brokeback Mountain; Warning: Story Line Revealed
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CalRed	Feb 11 2006, 06:04 PM Post #121
Member Posts: 1,087 Group: Members Member #128 Joined: November 30, 2004
	Something instead of Nothing? "I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing." Alan Sandage


CalRed	Feb 11 2006, 06:06 PM Post #122
Member Posts: 1,087 Group: Members Member #128 Joined: November 30, 2004
	Something instead of Nothing? "I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing." Alan Sandage


CalRed	Feb 11 2006, 06:09 PM Post #123
Member Posts: 1,087 Group: Members Member #128 Joined: November 30, 2004
	Something instead of Nothing? "I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing." Alan Sandage


CalRed	Feb 11 2006, 06:10 PM Post #124
Member Posts: 1,087 Group: Members Member #128 Joined: November 30, 2004
	Something instead of Nothing? "I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing." Alan Sandage


cmoehle	Feb 11 2006, 06:28 PM Post #125
Chris - San Antonio TX Posts: 36,959 Group: Members Member #1 Joined: June 6, 2004	Fear Factor.
	Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater


pentax	Feb 11 2006, 06:44 PM Post #126
Kamloops - BC Interior Posts: 6,649 Group: Members Member #16 Joined: June 21, 2004
	(thumbnail) "Kirk to Enterprise - Very funny, Scotty.... now beam down my clothes!"


CalRed	Feb 11 2006, 06:55 PM Post #127
Member Posts: 1,087 Group: Members Member #128 Joined: November 30, 2004	That's a lot of sheepherders...and other abominations...
	Something instead of Nothing? "I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing." Alan Sandage


PRT	Feb 11 2006, 07:10 PM Post #128
Member Posts: 7,737 Group: Members Member #10 Joined: June 21, 2004	Why do some of these cartoons suggest you can "catch" homosexuality? And - hate to burst anyone's bubble - it's not a disease.



Stoney	Feb 11 2006, 07:13 PM Post #129
Huntsville, AL Posts: 2,771 Group: Members Member #216 Joined: October 22, 2005	PRT Feb 11 2006, 08:10 PM Why do some of these cartoons suggest you can "catch" homosexuality? And - hate to burst anyone's bubble - it's not a disease. But that's probably some of the fear.
	The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. Henry David Thoreau


PRT	Feb 11 2006, 07:16 PM Post #130
Member Posts: 7,737 Group: Members Member #10 Joined: June 21, 2004	Well, where the heck are these people who believe that? It's bizarre.



Stoney	Feb 11 2006, 07:27 PM Post #131
Huntsville, AL Posts: 2,771 Group: Members Member #216 Joined: October 22, 2005	Isn't that the basis for the nurture/nature argument? Some would say that God won't produce homosexuals and so they must have been influenced to become homosexual.
	The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. Henry David Thoreau


TexasShadow	Feb 11 2006, 08:20 PM Post #132
Jane Posts: 5,534 Group: Members Member #18 Joined: June 26, 2004	re homosexuality a disease.... fear factor and influence......... I think most people know you can't "catch" homosexuality like a disease. I think it's the influence factor most people fear. consider that homosexual activity (to many) is like lying, stealing, cheating... in the sense that one chooses to do these things....chooses to act on an inclination...that is socially unacceptable. when such an act becomes acceptable... okie dokie.... fear enters as a perception of the moral decay of society. fundamentalists don't see homosexuality as more evil than lying, stealing and cheating... they just see it as one more moral restriction removed from the social norm. just another brick taken out of the foundation.
	"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."


CalRed	Feb 11 2006, 08:22 PM Post #133
Member Posts: 1,087 Group: Members Member #128 Joined: November 30, 2004	It isn't something that can be "caught" you have to "learn" it. Certainly it is a lifestyle chosen. No one was born that way.
	Something instead of Nothing? "I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing." Alan Sandage


PRT	Feb 11 2006, 08:26 PM Post #134
Member Posts: 7,737 Group: Members Member #10 Joined: June 21, 2004	CalRed Feb 11 2006, 09:22 PM It isn't something that can be "caught" you have to "learn" it. Certainly it is a lifestyle chosen. No one was born that way. There we will have to agree to disagree.



Linda	Feb 11 2006, 09:14 PM Post #135
Member Posts: 114 Group: Members Member #131 Joined: December 4, 2004	Quote: It isn't something that can be "caught" you have to "learn" it. Certainly it is a lifestyle chosen. No one was born that way. Your "learned" behaviour theory doesn't hold water. If it is learned behaviour, who is teaching it? Surely it can't be the parents. They are generally heterosexual and probably wouldn't understand or know the slightest thing about teaching their children how to be homosexual. Never mind the fact that the parents probably wouldn't even WANT to teach their kids how to be homosexual. Short story for you: I am the oldest of three daughters. We all grew up in the same household with the same two parents and the same rules. My two sisters are gay. My parents certainly didn't teach them this and growing up we were surrounded by my father's very religious family. We had no contact with homosexual people (to my knowledge) and were certainly never "taught" anything even remotely resembling homosexual lifestyles. To us, the word gay always meant happy. Never were there ever any sexual connotations associated with it. If it is learned behaviour..where was it learned? I'm not gay. I lived in the same house with my sisters for years and years. Why aren't we three for three? I've never been able to remember a time when I consciously chose to be heterosexual. Why is it assumed that homosexuals HAVE made that choice?

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