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Comment on If.... (2011-07-12 20:48:14)
What? I never said that a large part of Greek men WEREN'T gay. A large part were gay (or bi, whatever, let's settle with one term), as far as we can figure out considering we don't have any antique census data. And my assumption was completely to the point. Since you didn't, or chose not to understand it, I'll make it clearer: the gayness of Greek males was by choice for the reasons and logic described in my previous post. As for your other replies, well, I don't think these deserve a point-by-point rebuttal, but I'll do it anyway. My second paragraph was, as always, completely relevant and a counter-argument to the claim by someone (Korinthian?) who considered homosexuality a potential tool of nature to regulate populations. And your reply to my third paragraph is once again derived from either your inability to understand or to read. I am not equating sexuality or sex acts, in fact I specifically mentioned some posts back that Greek males sodomizing young boys was more than just sex. It was a choice because it was available and consequence free. I'm yet to see a valid argument to the contrary. And you can choose what you want to fuck. If not otherwise, then through pressure by society and self-whipping. Certainly you've read those testimonials that conservatives love to link, where former gays convinced themselves that it was wrong and learned to lust after women, and ended up happily married hetero men. I can't confirm their validity, but they're there, and not too illogical either.
Comment on mosque (2011-07-12 19:39:30)
So your point is that Stalin killed religious people because of his atheism? This is ridiculous. He might've been an atheist (at least openly, just like Mao) or not, but I atheism is in no way grounds for murder. He killed religious people because he feared organized opposition from among these ranks, just as from among academics and so on. Not because "you're religious, so I'll kill you, just like that!" Stalin was too practical to engage in such childishness. I'll repeat - atheism is not grounds for murder, unlike religion. Religious writings provide ample direct or interpretative reasons. Darwin's or Dawkins's writings do not. If you kill in the name of atheism, then you really kill in the name of your own maniacal urges. And I'm not trying to protect Stalin in any way here. He's the worst shit to ever walk the earth. As for Mao, his speeches and statements show the possibility that he really was religious. I read some analysis about this once. No, I don't remember just where and thus cannot link and you wouldn't probably agree with this anyway.
Comment on If.... (2011-07-12 19:26:59)
If a large percentage of Greek upper class men were homosexuals through genetics, then that would stand to reason that it was similar in other social classes as well, unless being born into the aristocracy is also a genetic thing and in correlation with homosexuality. Now I remind you again that overpopulation is a recent trend and a "gay gene" as a means of controlling the number of births would have become useful only recently. Child mortality rate in ancient times was extremely high and, thus, every child was valuable. A large percentage of people being homosexual and unwilling to reproduce would have spelled danger to the survival of a society. But Greek aristocrats, being or preparing to be married, could reproduce AND have sex with boys under their guardianship without endangering their society with extinction. This is my point, and why I consider homo- or bisexuality to be a matter of choice (at least in ancient Greece).
Comment on mosque (2011-07-12 18:07:10)
Stalin killed people because of their religion, because they were too wealthy, because they lived in the wrong place, because they were in his way, because he didn't like their faces. Any reason was as good as another. And I'm yet to hear about him killing Orthodox Christians because of their religion. First, he was schooled as an Orthodox priest and second, a large number of Russians adhered to that religion and it wouldn't have been prudent of him to upset them. Of course they were repressed, but so was everyone else, religious or not. As for Mao, he was Buddhist/Confucian/Taoist/whatever, as these terms can overlap. I haven't heard about him killing buddhists (who constitute at least a half of Chinese people), not wholesale anyway. Killing religious people DOES NOT mean killing in the name of atheism. Period. I'm an atheist and I would love to be a dictator, preferable in some Caribbean banana republic, but I wouldn't go about killing Catholics.
Comment on If.... (2011-07-12 15:51:09)
It would seem that a significant portion of UPPER-CLASS Greek males had sexual relationships with boys. Whether it was common or not among lower classes is unknown, since they didn't usually hit the news. "The most widespread and socially significant form of same-sex sexual relations in ancient Greece was between adult men and pubescent or adolescent boys, known as pederasty." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greece
Comment on If.... (2011-07-12 13:59:35)
Here's a thought in favor of homosexuality by choice. Ancient Greece. Yes, I know homosexuality wasn't as widespread as some people think, and that it was actually bisexuality (considering the men who were into their young male apprentices also had wives) but it was there. If homosexuality is genetic, then we should assume that a large percentage of upper-class Greek males had those genes. A rather unlikely coincidence. Everything points to homosexuality by choice. And it wasn't just about sex (free young meat readily available), it was about culture (references exist in Greek literature and mythology), seemingly even about love.
Comment on If.... (2011-07-12 10:56:13)
So what does homosexuality mean in your book?
Comment on If.... (2011-07-12 10:40:53)
You have something of a point. Perhaps it's a "sliding scale", or perhaps it's just a number of elements about another person (regardless of gender) that you inherently consider attractive. But whether you actively go homo or not is still a choice. Affected by culture, maybe, but definitely a choice. I mean, I might also label myself as "bi-curious", meaning I find some men attractive, but that doesn't mean I'd go grabbing their butts.
Comment on Hashima Island ruins wallpaper (2011-07-12 08:42:47)
I want to build a stage for thrash metal gigs between these ruins. Every time a band plays, something collapses in the vicinity. Awesome.
Comment on If.... (2011-07-12 08:34:09)
Homosexuality is certainly anomalous behavior in a biological sense. I just don't think it's as harmful to society as conservatives claim. As for it being a choice, yes, it probably is. Because genetic predispositions to homosexuality wouldn't survive long in the gene pool.
Comment on TES (2011-07-12 08:26:32)
I don't get it. Is Spock shown under Morrowind because it's the best of the series and a smart guy like him understands that?
Comment on mosque (2011-07-11 18:39:11)
These states didn't kill people because of atheism. Religious states kill people because of religion. Fundamental difference here, see? Besides, which states do you mean anyway? Nazi Germany wasn't atheist. Quite religious, in fact. Soviet Union is the only atheist dictatorship I can think of. I write one short sentence per row because the end parts of rows in third tier replies tend to cut short abruptly.
Comment on Pc vs. consoles (2011-07-11 05:45:10)
I don't understand how a console could ever be better than a PC for anything. It's not like they're 5 years ahead in technology or something.
Comment on mosque (2011-07-11 05:42:29)
Surprised? If monuments were modeled after vaginas, they'd look like shopping malls from ground level.
Comment on Hangovers are dangerous (2011-07-10 05:59:40)
...thought the kitten, as he found himself sleeping in the sink next to a sodomized sponge.