It's called a conscience. Please listen to it.
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Pretty sure that we all do, when a matter of actual ethics arises.
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Material designed to make people sexually aroused generally involves ethics—making the receiver commit mental adultery with that person. In years past, I used to watch such material—but my conscience burned me to the heart. I have since abstained, and I feel clean because of it.
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I feel clean for living beyond the yoke of thought-crime.
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It's good to be healthy, just not at the expense of sexual propriety, especially in the case of very young children.
Eric Bogle had the right idea: Do you remember the day that if you said that you were gay It meant with joy that you could sing and shout A fairy was enchanting and dressing up and camping Was something you did with the scouts That care free age when an urgent case of aids Was powdered milk we sent to the Sahara A fruit was something nice to eat a poof was something for your feet And a queen was an old tart in a tiara Ah look what we've done to the old mother tongue It's a crime the way we've misused it It's been totally tis woggled, crumb and blonged and golly woggled And we've strangled, mangled frangled and abused it Ah those far off times when a bong meant a chime And a buzz was a noise insecticidal And joint was something between bones and getting really stoned Only happened to bad people in the Bible When if you had a bad trip it meant you fell and broke your hip Cold turkey just meant Christmas at Aunt Dottie's Coke was something that you burned; a smack was something that you earned From your mumzie wumzie when you had been naughty The years have gone I'm afraid when only eggs got laid And only the rhinoceros got horny Only kangaroos jumped and only camels humped Getting stuffed meant a little taxidermy Swing was for trapezes and Tarzan's chimpanzees Tossing off was something Scotland did with cabers Now it means something quite obscene And heavy ugly scene is any movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger They're only words and words are what we use When we got sod all to say |
Bollocks. Language evolves. It's purpose is to be used to communicate, and restraining people's use of it is contrary to that purpose. It has to adapt to express new ideas, and any attempt to stop this requires that you pick an arbitrary stage in its evolution for it to be fixed at. Why not declare formal sixteenth century English the true form, or whatever it will be by 2100. What's so special about the English of our grandparent's generation?
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Many of our words have evolved from their original, but only to make them easier to say. The words that Eric Bogle describes as being perverted are the ones that used to mean something pleasant and have now become abominations: gay, hump, joint, bong, stoned, aids, etc.
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"Gay" was an insult, but has been reclaimed, so scratch that off the list. "Hump," well, that's innocuous and still used for all meanings freely, ditto "joint", "bong" is just a funny word, "stoned" is much more abominable in it's older meaning, "aids" is a misspelling of AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, which is a technical term for a disease. The disease is an abomination, but the word... I can't take you seriously with an example like that.
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Gay remains an insult. It was used 2x this past week in my hearing. "Hump," not so innocent either. AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease, people around me were using it in not-so-nice ways.
Anyway, I would talk more, but as it's after 11 PM in my time zone, my bed calls me. This matter is not over...yet. |
Good luck, by the way.
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Yeah it is kinda an insult these days but mostly now it is just used to refer to one type of a person without the intention of insult. These days I find that if you want to insult somebody by saying you are attracted to the same sex, people say fag or faggot. At least on Xbox Live anyway. But where I live it's rare now you hear somebody use Gay to insult a person. :
So considering I have watched porn together with a lover how bad does that make me? |
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Nice double standard, there. e: :
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Jeez, Christine O'Donnell. She turned out to be forgettable in the long run, didn't she? |
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That's what I'm wondering. I'm an Atheist. But if somebody wants to follow a religion that's fine by me. I just hate it when they try to spread their religion on me.
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The bible says a lot of things. Seeing as we've been having a lot of discussions concerning rape, how about that hilarious section of Deuteronomy detailing the "laws" of rape?
Always a crack-up, the bible. Alcar... |
I don't get what's so hilarious about rape laws.
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It's justice put into action. He has to pay her father for his crime, then take her as wife because he committed an act with her.
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Okay.
You're fucking dangerous. |
To clarify you just said that rape is a civil offense and raping a young woman makes her your property.
I don't give a fuck that I'm double posting. You're a disgusting repulsive excuse for a human being and I hate every inch of people like you. Get out of this forum, get off the internet and preferably leave this life and go up to the God you so love. |
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And if he's not trolling, people like him are why religion is a bad thing. |
Don't put all of us into one band. I'm far more liberal but then I feel increasingly non-denominational...nevertheless, this is someone who takes the old testament to seriously.
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Lord Douchebag is practicing religion the way it's supposed to be done, reading his holy book and taking every word in there literal, as it was written by his creator. If the bible says he has to hate on gays, he hates on gays. If it says sex is illegal before marriage, he doesn't have sex before marriage. If it says to kill yourself on your 50th birthday I will guarantee you he will jump in front of a train on his 50th birthday. You on the other hand, read your holy book, pick out the parts you like and toss out the rest with a big middle finger to your god. And even the parts you left in are your own interpretation of his words. You're not sure if he meant that, but it sounds good so what the hell. That's not being a follower of a religion, that's following your own morals and doesn't have anything to do with a god. None whatsoever. |
Well, I can only try, but some of the good book is very old and I couldn't follow all of it because I couldn't understand it, I'm not a Biblical scholar, I don't understand God or his workings.
But why the fuck do you think you have the right to come to me or another person of any religion and tell them how they should worship? I'll tell you why, it's because you can hide behind a computer screen and muster up the audacity to make accusations and point fingers at people over things you proclaim you understand. In real life you wouldn't have the balls to come up to me and tell me in person that the way I practice my religion is wrong because of the consequences so think before you speak here or shut the fuck up. I read the Bible, and I see problems, I am not a brainwashed member of the Catholic faith who bows before every chapter and blindly bulldozes my way through life confident that everything ever written about God is the truth. The book is getting on for a few thousand years old and has been interpreted and re-interpreted so many times how do we know what to listen to anymore? Therefore I follow the commandments as best of my ability, I base my morale compass on how not to be a douchebag (something you might want to look at) and I go through life with service to God and man. Simple as. |
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Isn't that unfair that he has to marry the woman? I'm quite sure the woman didn't want to be raped in the first place so why on earth would she want to be married to him? |
I think it's best we ignore this passage because times have changed, perhaps 2,500 years ago this was the norm but in current times we have prisons and chemical sheds for these types of people Jenny. ;)
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So if I'm walking along and I see a woman that I've been carrying a torch for, if I want to make her mine I should rape her? I thought laying claim to women was the norm back in the day.
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Your move, Mr. High-Horse. |