Comments on: CLOSET

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:31:47 +0000

But Narnia is in a wardrobe not a closet… or through a picture…or garden gate. Or train station with a magic horn. But never a closet.

By: Me

Me — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:50:41 +0000

Fabulous demons are very fabulous… And the Narnia is a fabulous reference ^^

By: Frizby

Frizby — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:46:20 +0000

“So gay, he could put a lisp in the word cracker.”
But agreed, this one is going on my list as well.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:09:41 +0000

OMFG GAYS ARE NOT POSSEDET BY DEOMANS but yes the caption is true lol

By: -_-

-_- — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:33:47 +0000

O____o The hell is wrong with you?

By: -_-

-_- — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:33:13 +0000

Oh put a sock in it you damn Homophobes.

By: Stween

Stween — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:10:42 +0000

Narnia is gay.
Oh snap!

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:42:09 +0000

It was; i was in a bad mood from reading the sign the idiot is holding in the picture again. Sorry Seiber.

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:37:32 +0000

I lol’d.

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:36:03 +0000

/agree.

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:35:43 +0000

Awesome verbiage Win! Pederastic, i’ll have to log that one to the memory files….

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:34:47 +0000

The moral of the story is: Don’t take things out-of-context.
The less-applicable moral: Don’t say that sex with boys is okay when you really mean that sex with persons of the same gender is okay.
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As for Lesbos:
Lesbians are known as such from the poems of Sappho, who happened to have been born on Lesbos, and happened to write poems about women practicing tribadism.
It’s not based on any historical information, but on poetry. Oi, i don’t think I even need to say anything else beyond that, but here goes: dumbass.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:32:56 +0000

Pederastic historical partial history win…

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:30:21 +0000

Homosexuality was not practiced in Greece; Do your homework.
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Pedophilia was practiced in Greece. Any man who wished to be penetrated was unnatural and weird. Any woman who wanted to was quite a bit off. Little girls are like small women, but little boys…they’re not really like small men, are they? They’re okay to have around, penetrate, and teach what it means to be a man some day. [/end history lesson]

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:26:51 +0000

No, you’re just stupid since my anecdote about the cat clearly meant she wwas up for showing Max a good time… but then You’re pretty slow all round.

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:26:34 +0000

/agree to the genes-vs-hormones comment, the evolution comment, and the marriage comment.
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That’s 3 of 3! How rare! You win a Golden Number Three engraved with the words: “For That Time When 2 Kinds of Marriage Was Not Enough.”
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No, I’m not being sarcastic…but god, sure sounds like it after i reread it…

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:22:28 +0000

woot for chaste relationships!

F****** Ahnold, allowing that travesty of a constitutional nightmare to appear on the ballot… It’s for couples like your daughter’s that I am disappointed.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:13:13 +0000

Sounds trite.

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:10:32 +0000

Define religion.
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1) Atheism is a religion.
2) Fanatics are fanatics.
.’. Atheist fanatics are religious fanatics.
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So far so good.
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BUT Gustave went and used the word “closet” which implies that Atheist religion is somehow different from religion of other kinds (theist), and that they therefore secretly believe in (a) g(G)od. Don’t worry, Gustave is wrong.

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:07:43 +0000

Ooh, another psychologist. Read this: What is exotic becomes erotic. Sound familiar?

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:06:26 +0000

To quote Freud: “What is exotic becomes erotic.” For obese persons, as you’ve pointed out, food stimulates the pleasure center stronger; for gays, those of the same sex do that. Doesn’t mean it’s normal, or something to be proud of, to be Fat, does it?

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:03:23 +0000

What you call “hardwiring” is merely the inability to individuate from a certain specific set of desires.

Know what “normal” means? It’s from the greek root “Nomos.” It means “Abiding by Natural Law.” If homosexuality is abiding by natural law, then wy do homosexual animals die out of the population? It seems a little ridiculous to think that natural selection, the Id instincts, and homosexuality are all perfectly natural in their entirety.
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That’s why we’ve developed the ego and superego: to get over whatever instinctive urges that prevent us from continuing the species. So we developed artifical insemination, and are capable of using surrogate mothers and the like; fine. We’ve used an important part of our psyche to go beyond an ABNORMAL system of faulty reproduction, and made it possiblt to be more natural in a setting where we’d normally be forced to die out.
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In short, it’s not “hardwiring” it’s “faulty wiring.” Of course, I’m not saying it’s /Bad/. I’m only saying that it wouldn’t be NORMAL if we didn’t also have methods of continuing the species: hooray for complex minds.

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:35 +0000

*mops, among other things.

By: Kuromisa

Kuromisa — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:21 +0000

Is it ironic in this case that The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has been called a Christian allegory, or just a coincidence?

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:54:17 +0000

wanna talk paradoxical belief? Ok, fine:
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Every system of explanation that is worth a grain of salt is inherently paradoxical (note: not contradictory, there’s a difference). Alchemy, Yoga, Christianity, Quantum Physics, Special Relativity, mythological systems, Richard Dawkins, Marijuana or other Entheogen usage, and so on. Paradox is the only way to explain anything to the Human Psyche in precise terms, because all other forms of explanation fall short of being precise and exclusive to alternative possibilities for the occurrence they attempt to explain.
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Define a chair, for instance, in terms that apply only to chairs, and no to stools or tables or boxes, but only chairs. It’s impossible, and “definition” is only the simplest form of explanation.
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In the same way we can’t explain anything, we really can’t predict anything: it’s all statistics, and we have no way of knowing, of being certain, of a predicted event.
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It is precisely because of this inherent sort of proto-randomness that Seth comment below (november 6th, 2008 at 11:42am), the one about Causality, makes so little sense as well. There is no causal relationship, but only two commonly coinciding events.

*Points at Hume, gestures at Jung, smacks you with Wittgenstein, then maops up with a sponge made of Peirce*

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:44:55 +0000

okay i officially failed… ><

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:44:26 +0000

ignore that, i’ll move it….

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:44:00 +0000

simply put: it’s the resin left behind from cooking off the essential oils of paprika.

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:42:49 +0000

Quit smoking?

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:41:08 +0000

Hoof it if you can’t horn in.

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:40:15 +0000

I lol’d, win.

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:37:59 +0000

“And yet it is the parts that espouse tolerance and unity that seem to offend.
The parts that justify prejudice, hatred and division are the parts that get embraced…[by idiots.]”

I corrected this for you.

By: ardentmoth

ardentmoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:36:26 +0000

1) The Average person is Average.
2) Christians are People
.’. The Average Christian is Average.

Since people in general aspire to be better than Average, but the Average ones fail at it:

3) The Average person is a Bad person.
2) [see above]
.’. The Average Christian is a Bad Christian.

It’s a simple matter of generalities. When judging a group, I think we should look not at the average, but at the goal of the group.

By: lella

lella — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:35:30 +0000

Yeah, I felt kinda bipolar on election night.

By: ???

??? — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:27:24 +0000

cheers to that!

By: s57sunny

s57sunny — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:09:39 +0000

A “large” percentage of the population has always been gay. But if you realized from a very young age that being gay left you open to ridicule, discrimination and possibly physical violence, would you go around telling people you were gay? I have always just assumed that is where people get the idea that someone “turns gay”, because they have lived a lie for years, i.e. marrying, having children, so no one will know. It may not be any less dangerous for people to admit it these days but more people are having the courage not to lie and pretend to be something they are not just to make others happy. Legalizing gay marriage is not going to endanger straight marriages. People don’t just wake up one day and think “Gee! I think I’ll go have relations with someone of the same sex today”. You are either gay or straight and no law is going to change that. Just for the record, I am straight but through my job in the Arts industry I have met made many gay friends, all of whom are just as nice, normal, generous, intelligent, etc. as anyone else. In fact, I’d venture to say that they are more intelligent because they don’t just assume that all people who are not gay are perverted child molesting demons.

By: hopefloats51

hopefloats51 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:44:55 +0000

The guy holding the sign is possessed by Stupidity!

By: Lord Death Bredon

Lord Death Bredon — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:54:41 +0000

Just something to note. I have 10 cats and I never thought of that behavior as homosexual, just dominance. Maybe that’s what it’s actually all about…

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:22:28 +0000

I wouldn’t say it’s messed up. People who are just dating should definatly not be able to adopt a child together. If they can’t commit to a marraige, why should they be able to adopt? I’m not trying to argue, I just don’t see why its ok for two people to adopt a child just because they are sexually involved with one another. I don’t really think it’s the healthiest environment for the child, gay or straight.

By: twelvy1972

twelvy1972 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:02:57 +0000

“Amen”, not “Ah…men”. Fabulously put my friends!

By: Heh

Heh — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:43:58 +0000

Liberal fail.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:38:03 +0000

You know, the guy holding the sign is pretty cute….

By: bob-berto

bob-berto — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:34:25 +0000

owned.

By: tinuviel

tinuviel — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:42:28 +0000

Camper than a tent-full of boy scouts!

By: Kit

Kit — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:08:47 +0000

I have a civil union. It sucks. There are a couple states where civil unions give pretty much the same stuff as marriages, but even if we all did that, separate but equal has never worked very well. I’m willing to let religions take marriage back for themselves as a sacrament if they want, so that all of us need to get a civil union for the legal, secular rights marriages currently afford…that way when the religious have to get both a religious marriage and a secular civil union to be married in front of god AND the state, they can’t whinge about gays wiggling into their holy union. It would take a lot more work than just letting gays get secularly married though, and it’d hurt a lot of feelings from the rest of us who believe in marriage as an institution of love rather than god’s blessing.

By: Kit

Kit — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:59:32 +0000

I’ll just respond to the saner bit: why would more than 10% be gay? Only 10% of us are left-handed. And, yeah, it MIGHT be a natural defense against overpopulation. Nothing wrong with that.

By: Kit

Kit — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:56:25 +0000

Doesn’t mean you can’t choose to go against your dirty left-handedness because you know it’s a sin!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!

By: Kit

Kit — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:49:41 +0000

Maaaaybe HE’S closeted.
No, probably not. I love guys who throw the gaydar off.

By: Kit

Kit — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:47:05 +0000

And that’s why most of these guys mention that they think being gay is not a choice but acting on that desire is. And technically speaking, that’s true. Personally, I’d rather sin a bit.

By: herb

herb — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:39:48 +0000

“Howsabout we say that Jesus made it okay to eat shrimp and bacon, and wear mixed-fiber clothes, and allow for shaving and tatoos and women wearing pants… but I don’t like the idea of being done up the pooper, so let’s keep that illegal.”

I still admire the theory that homophobia is linked to misogyny: men not wanting to be treated like women.