5,651

(100 replies, posted in Politics)

I believe that all "deviant" or "unusual" self-identity issues like sexual identity, religious devotion, racial identity and extreme political dissidence, criminal activity, all "anti-social" self-imaging is probably reversible by some means.  I also believe that psychotherapy cannot resolve these issues, since they occur at so basic a level that the patient is unable to achieve full candor wtih the therapist, or, maintian that level of candor with the general public.  And its the interaction with the public that "reinforces" that self-image.  I'm talking about any behavior where the indivdiual assumes his "manners" require him to conceal his "true self".

I also think 21st century science forbids exploration of therapy outside counseling to deal with these issues.  The community and the government aren't going to allow experiments with drugs that allow devout Jews to be converted into Mormonism by talk, or surgery to make extreme reactionaries like me more persuasible.

Whether that is really a bad thing, depends on whether or not you are a real man.  haha just kidding. at least it'd polite to say so.

5,652

(100 replies, posted in Politics)

That presumes that homosexuality is not a matter of choice, and that it is fully equal to heterosexuality, and that any cultural differences are meaningless, and they can be destroyed overnight, and it doesn't matter.  that's a lot of assumptions to impose on people.

5,653

(100 replies, posted in Politics)

But they are compelled to accept labels whether they like it or not.  That is always significant.

5,654

(100 replies, posted in Politics)

Actually, in my state the official, do-not-alter marriage license ordered everybody to describe themselves as "Spouse A" and "Spouse B".  Anybody who crossed that out and wrote "Husband" and "Wife" wasn't legally married.  So that was sort of telling people how to think.

Also the Percy vs Schwarzenegger decision is a straight order to ignore those harmful religious teachings that homosexuality is not approved.

Also I think the whole point of getting married, and this is stated outright in the Percy v Schwarzenegger, is to compel everybody to acknowledge the marriage as equal "in stature and respect" as marriage between a man and a woman.  So yeah, you are forcing everybody to do something.

5,655

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

should realize Kung Fu is on youtube so I will not be in IRC for a while

also cannot hear the grasshopper

5,656

(100 replies, posted in Politics)

my considered thought is that men are hardwired to bang a knothole in a plank

anything above that is learned, conditioned behavior

and our psychological and psychiatric sciences are not ethically allowed to deprogram too deeply, whatever the behavior

besides waht's to "cure"? there's no "disorder"

5,657

(100 replies, posted in Politics)

they weren't gay, they were bisexual by todays standards

in fact what we do is uniquely preverted.

sex is culture

5,658

(35 replies, posted in Politics)

so I guess nobody in Europe is socialist, since the Govt owns shit in the name of the workers, that makes it fascist

5,659

(8 replies, posted in Politics)

he won't let that happen without violence

5,660

(35 replies, posted in Politics)

because Hitler called his party "National Socialist" and included many freebies for the workers as a protected class.  State paid vacations and state discounts on housing and cars, to us Americans, has seemed pretty uniformly "statist"

5,661

(7 replies, posted in General)

Just say no kids

Btw how does peta know the animal didn't want to die? We need to train leatherneck cows with no fear of death

5,662

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

Wants his gf to jump out of a cake

5,663

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

sings along to his Streisand LPs

5,664

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

had a walkon in "Doctor Who and the Invasion of Uranus"

5,665

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

knows I would have got away with it if it hadnt been for those nosy kids

5,666

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

should seriously leave the theater already

5,667

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

torched an IROC-Z belonging to ZZTop at a NYC IHOP when they didn't MYODB

5,668

(14 replies, posted in Community)

you get used to that

we're 30 years too late for our big one

I'm looking forward to it, we can rebuild this town RIGHT

and we don't get out of bed for anything less than a 6


also the frequency of 4.6 under your feet makes it more likely that a 8.5 will hit elsewhere, so that's good

5,669

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

should know I plan on changing withholding to preclude having a refund; so Obamacare can't attach a $1500 no insurance penalty to my refund

5,670

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

shoots for three, nothing but net

5,671

(7 replies, posted in General)

just say No

5,672

(33 replies, posted in Ideas)

cant you set up an experimental galaxy called Dimension X or something cool and scifi in which to test out ideas like this?

5,673

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

Heard about my cousin in the korean war who raided the messhall at midnight yikes

5,674

(162 replies, posted in Politics)

aaaand now the "buzz" is that "Cordoba House" has been renamed "Park 51" even though the building address was 45-47 Park Avenue

and this supposedly is because Surat 51 of the Koran, verse 45-47 reads

45. Then they were unable to rise up, nor could they help themselves.

46. (So were) the people of N

5,675

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

can start despairing now