OT "I'm Dealing With A Few Transgender Issues"

Wait? Eric left? He was posting last night.

 

I know two Erics here....kingspeed and elprez....I have seen them both post the couple of days

 

Yeah, I think she is talking about Kingspeed, but he still posts here. Was curious if he decided to quit last night and Crandc knew something we didn't. I'd miss Eric if he ever left. Even if we don't always see things the same way on the Blazers.

 

Well said.

 

Thank you to everyone on the staff who was responsive and sympathetic, especially Sly.

 

Are you implying that homosexual students are evil?

 

Aren't you thankful there are such resources which attenuate the suicide rate?

 

Just for the record, I was baptized before I was one year old.

 

I am glad Kingspeed is still around. Sometimes it's good to be wrong.

And I was never baptized.

 

Baptized at 11, so my parents could get access to the church's food bank... I don't think it stuck.

 

I was baptized at 10 ...my parents were atheists..relatives were Catholic and Christians and I liked the music in church and even more the girls in pretty dresses. I read the books and stayed Christian until I got to Vietnam and say what was happening in the name of God and country....at one point I realized that millions of Buddhists were not out conquering the planet and shooting it up. Much cooler religion. I switched and eventually came to a sort of Taoist approach of my own making that became my own system of right and wrong and self discipline. I don't believe in heaven or hell. I'm curious about reincarnation just because it's more interesting to me than other versions of afterlife. I think of the planet as a living entity and my version of a god would be any place where people and nature can harmonize and act as one....which was my original attraction to music. The music religion inspired for the world is glorious. The idea that you are here to suffer and die and be tested is complete bullshit to me.

 

Bach considered all his music a celebration of his Catholic faith. Doesn't make the music less beautiful.

I was incorrect about Eric but my basic point still holds.

Students at Seattle Pacific University are protesting the school upholding a ban on LGBTQ staff. School says ban gays because they are Christian. Of course.

 

Total Catholic immersion for the first eighteen years of my life. It was a Jesuit parish, so we were highly encouraged to use our critical reasoning. Going to a high school run by French Christian Brothers only doubled down on that concept. I actually enjoyed growing up Catholic for no other reason than the pageantry and traditions (still pissed that they switched the mass from Latin to English), along with feeling like I belonged to some sort of exclusive club. That is a nice sense of security for a kid. But I never could buy into the totality of it all, and I took from it what I thought was good and moved on from the rest. I believe in a higher power and that what we do in this life determines what happens in the next life. But all we can do is have faith that the next life exists, so I basically follow Pascal's Wager.......there may or may not be an afterlife, but I'm going to try and live my life as if there is......

 

the most dangerous Americans are any of those who voted for this brain dead Karen