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A re-examination of nothing

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Chaplain David

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Time for a sandwich. Be right back. Back off? Hmmm
 
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Homosexuals existed just the same. They were offenders as I have explained earlier. There is no point in quibbling with semantics.
 
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bes this true?
 
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Your post was about mental illnesses, as you brought up depression and substance abuse and the other disorders named in the study to which you linked. Those are in the DSM-IV, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders. The study to which you linked looked at the rates of various mental illnesses among gay people in comparison to those rates among heterosexuals.

My issue with your post was not the data; it was your spin on the data. The study you linked makes no claim about why gay people may be at greater risk for these various mental illnesses. It just says that we are. You suggested that the study challenges the notion that gay people are at higher risk because of homophobia and social ostracism, etc. But the study shows no such thing.

Your post read to me like a gratuitious slam at gay people. If that was not your aim, then that's good. It sounded like it to me.
 
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Back off from attacking gay people, please. You have a right to post, but it's wrong to attack others simply for being themselves.
 
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Homosexuals existed just the same. They were offenders as I have explained earlier. There is no point in quibbling with semantics.
Here you go attacking gay people again. We are not "offenders" by being ourselves.

This is not just a semantic issue; it's an issue of people using the Bible to denigrate gay people, which is immoral.
 
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Time for a sandwich. Be right back. Back off? Hmmm
Yes, I told another poster to back off from attacking gay people. I am not going to sit back and let people put us down without a response.

So to those who would attack innocent gay people and who would beat us over the head with their Bibles, I say back off.
 
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So let gay people walk away, away from this toxic misinterpretation of the message of Jesus. Jesus never said anything against gay people. Others should follow his example and do likewise. Attacking innocent gay people is against the message of Jesus. Attacking any people is against the message of Jesus.
 
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What you regard as the "truth" is just your beliefs. It's not the "truth," but rather your beliefs about truth.

Normally this one has that line, and agrees with it.

But lately it bes losing its faith in that.


Bes that line itself equally subject to its own constraints? In other words, take it up one level. We start with:
What you regard as the "truth" is just your beliefs. It's not the "truth," but rather your beliefs about truth.
Move it up one level and call it "statement X":
"Statement X" that you regard as the "truth" is just your beliefs. "Statement X" bes not the "truth," but rather your beliefs about truth.
Thus:
The statement that "what one regards as truth bes only one's beliefs, not the truth itself but merely one's beliefs ABOUT truth" bes not the truth, but only what you believe about the truth.
Therefore technically that statement itself has no greater "truth value" than any other statement one makes as "the truth". To state that it does would be to violate or contradict the very "truth" it purports to set forth. Which means it bes NO MORE TRUE to see everything stated as truth as merely being ppls' BELIEFS about the truth than it would be to see those statements AS constituting truth itself.

It bes an inherent contradiction and begging of the question itself otherwise. Kind of like saying "change bes the only constant". Well if change bes the only constant then at some point change will have to change into what bes not-change. Then what?
 
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This other poster DID present propaganda, by trying to spin the results of a study to say what the study did not say. And the point seemed to be nothing but a gratuitous slam at gay people.
 
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So if a person posts something you don't agree with and even has scholarly evidence for proof, it is offensive and Jesus wouldn't like it?
 
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The propoganda is that homosexuality is perfectly harmless to all.

Well, it certainly doesn't harm you, or anyone else who isn't homosexual.

And whilst it's true that people who engage in unsafe sex are at risk of STDs, that's true regardless of sexuality.

So aside from those homosexuals who decide to engage in unsafe sex, which homosexuals are harmed by being homosexual? I can't think of any.

David.
 
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True! But we have to live in a world of such contradictions and paradoxes, don't we?

My argument is not that no higher truth exists, but that our conceptions of that truth are always partial, always distorted. We always see "through a glass darkly," so long as we are human beings.

Is my argument "true?" Only partially, and only incompletely true. But it's a useful take on truth, for me, because it enables me to accept that other people see the truth differently from me. Ultimately I have no interest in changing anyone's theology, in changing what they believe about God. My interest, my agenda in posting here, besides learning from other posters, is urging people to treat lgbt people with respect, as equals. I am here in part to challenge the belief of some that it's okay to look down on gay people or to denigrate gay people or to discriminate against gay people because of their belief that homosexuality is a "sin."
 
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This will be my last post to you.

Twisting words and falsehoods, are said to come from the GREAT DECEIVER, which you claim to be part of you, from what I understand you to claim. (could be wrong but is what I understand)

You can't have the Holy Spirit in you and a demon, so I have several thought on what is going on. You want to say I am playing games, I don't process to be a Christian and a demon.

Anyhow, I choose to no longer speak to either of the things you say you are.

Have a good day.
 
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even to your own kith you mortals all alike appear!!!

Don't kid yourself, Moriah. You are mortal like the rest of us. Don't be hiding behind your demonspeak about that.

It is in Jesus Christ that we put on immortality. Glory!
 
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bes this true?

Yes, the demoniacs didn't repent until they were delivered and in their right minds again.

I'm not saying that they cannot repent until delivered. They certainly can and do.
 
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Back off from attacking gay people, please. You have a right to post, but it's wrong to attack others simply for being themselves.

Stop that. I am not on the attack. I am presenting the truth of Jesus Christ on a (so-called) Christian forum.
 
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So instead of admit you bes wrong in what you did, you throws it back on daimonizomai and casts aspersions on it. How very classic. How very typical. How very MORTAL and HUMAN and alas, ..........................

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.................................................how very CHRISTIAN.
 
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