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Homosexuality: Nature vs. Nurture
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Aug 31 2007, 7:41 pm
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Nature or Nurture?
Nature or Nurture?
Answer Votes Percentage % Voters
Nature 28
 
34%
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Nurture 23
 
28%
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Both 27
 
33%
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Can't decide 6
 
8%
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Sep 11 2007, 1:33 am Falkoner Post #201



No, it's blocking out the viruses you send just fine :P



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Sep 12 2007, 1:25 am Dr. Shotgun Post #202



Argument for homosexuality.

Supernaut by 1000 Homo DJs is a fucking awesome song.

'Nuff said.



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Sep 15 2007, 9:45 pm Fierce Post #203



Also, if "God" created everyone, why he'd oppose homosexuals is hypocritical. So really why create them in the first place eh "God"?



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Sep 15 2007, 11:13 pm UnholyUrine Post #204



To me .. religion's for the weaks ... but it's good to have faith..

Anyways... There's proof that Homosexuality is a psychological disorder or a natural "disease" just like Down syndrome or Parkinson's Disease... Proof is that there're gay animals.. Not just humans.

Also.. it is almost impossible to change a homo to a heterosexual person.. (and vice-versa).
It is nature's way of saying... "Everybody's gotta make sm mistakes smtime"



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Sep 16 2007, 5:15 pm Moose Post #205

We live in a society.

Actually, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (if it's a psychological phenomemnon, it's in there) hasn't listed it as a "disorder" for quite some time.

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Following controversy and protests from gay activists at APA annual conferences from 1970 to 1973, the seventh printing of the DSM-II, in 1974, no longer listed homosexuality as a category of disorder. After talks led by the psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, who had been involved in the DSM-II development committee, a vote by the APA trustees in 1973, confirmed by the wider APA membership in 1974, had replaced the diagnosis with a milder category of "sexual orientation disturbance". This was replaced with the diagnosis of ego-dystonic homosexuality in the DSM-III in 1980, but this was removed in 1987 with the release of the DSM-III-R.[3][9][10] A category of "sexual disorder not otherwise specified" continues in the DSM-IV, which may include "persistent and marked distress about one’s sexual orientation”.





Sep 19 2007, 3:22 pm CookiesLikeWhoa Post #206



Quote from Fierce
Also, if "God" created everyone, why he'd oppose homosexuals is hypocritical. So really why create them in the first place eh "God"?

Free will.



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Sep 20 2007, 9:18 am AntiSleep Post #207



Quote from CookiesLikeWhoa
Quote from Fierce
Also, if "God" created everyone, why he'd oppose homosexuals is hypocritical. So really why create them in the first place eh "God"?

Free will.
Do elaborate please.



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Sep 21 2007, 5:58 am HolySin Post #208



Quote from CookiesLikeWhoa
Quote from Fierce
Also, if "God" created everyone, why he'd oppose homosexuals is hypocritical. So really why create them in the first place eh "God"?

Free will.
Does free will even exist when it comes to topics about God? I mean, believers say God knows everything which means he knows what you'll do in your life. Therefore, in a way, your life is already planned and free will doesn't exist. On the other hand, if God does not know everything, then free will does exist.

And if I'm reading your response correctly, you're saying that free will was created by God so he could have a reason to oppose homosexuality or any other attributes? I'm lost.



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Sep 21 2007, 11:24 am Dr. Shotgun Post #209



Will is saying that the rationalization for evil in a world where God is omnipotent is that God grants men free will to sin.



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Sep 21 2007, 1:53 pm AntiSleep Post #210



Are you suggesting man's free will causes illness and natural disasters? What about birth defects? Congenital conditions that cause death at a young age?




And where did the whole homosexuality is an abomination come from? The same book that calls crab shrimp and shellfish an abomination, or could it be that these people were already homophobic, and they use the bible to reinforce their beliefs?

http://www.fallwell.com/selective%20quotation.html



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Sep 21 2007, 3:05 pm CookiesLikeWhoa Post #211



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Does free will even exist when it comes to topics about God? I mean, believers say God knows everything which means he knows what you'll do in your life. Therefore, in a way, your life is already planned and free will doesn't exist. On the other hand, if God does not know everything, then free will does exist.

And if I'm reading your response correctly, you're saying that free will was created by God so he could have a reason to oppose homosexuality or any other attributes? I'm lost.

A real simply way to look at it is like a chess game. Lets say you move a given piece. You know the out come of all the movements of the piece. Free will is like this, you have all the choices to do w/e, and God knows the out come of all of them. Though which one you take is your choice.



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Sep 21 2007, 3:21 pm HolySin Post #212



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Does free will even exist when it comes to topics about God? I mean, believers say God knows everything which means he knows what you'll do in your life. Therefore, in a way, your life is already planned and free will doesn't exist. On the other hand, if God does not know everything, then free will does exist.

And if I'm reading your response correctly, you're saying that free will was created by God so he could have a reason to oppose homosexuality or any other attributes? I'm lost.

A real simply way to look at it is like a chess game. Lets say you move a given piece. You know the out come of all the movements of the piece. Free will is like this, you have all the choices to do w/e, and God knows the out come of all of them. Though which one you take is your choice.
Actually, I'd imagine it such that God would know what choice you would make, that is assuming God knows everything. So because God knows what choices you will make, you are simply following a predestined path.



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Sep 21 2007, 3:39 pm CookiesLikeWhoa Post #213



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Does free will even exist when it comes to topics about God? I mean, believers say God knows everything which means he knows what you'll do in your life. Therefore, in a way, your life is already planned and free will doesn't exist. On the other hand, if God does not know everything, then free will does exist.

And if I'm reading your response correctly, you're saying that free will was created by God so he could have a reason to oppose homosexuality or any other attributes? I'm lost.

A real simply way to look at it is like a chess game. Lets say you move a given piece. You know the out come of all the movements of the piece. Free will is like this, you have all the choices to do w/e, and God knows the out come of all of them. Though which one you take is your choice.
Actually, I'd imagine it such that God would know what choice you would make, that is assuming God knows everything. So because God knows what choices you will make, you are simply following a predestined path.

That's the thing about free will though, the path is know the choice isn't. That's just my take on it though.



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Sep 21 2007, 3:41 pm AntiSleep Post #214



if that is the case, then free will is an illusion.



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Sep 21 2007, 3:45 pm CookiesLikeWhoa Post #215



Arguably, but then again God knowing all but not being able to mess with free will almost makes sense if you view as a God illogical...thing.



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Sep 21 2007, 3:56 pm Dapperdan Post #216



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That's the thing about free will though, the path is know the choice isn't. That's just my take on it though.
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Arguably, but then again God knowing all but not being able to mess with free will almost makes sense if you view as a God illogical...thing.

Nothing you are saying makes any sense. You probably shouldn't attempt to make an arguement you don't know how to make, or you'll just look foolish. I mean, it's not like the arguement you're trying to make is even easy to make it appear logical in the first place. Anti wasn't too overbearing about it, but he's basically just pointing out how contradictory your statements are, I agree with him.



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Sep 21 2007, 4:36 pm CookiesLikeWhoa Post #217



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That's the thing about free will though, the path is know the choice isn't. That's just my take on it though.
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Arguably, but then again God knowing all but not being able to mess with free will almost makes sense if you view as a God illogical...thing.

Nothing you are saying makes any sense. You probably shouldn't attempt to make an arguement you don't know how to make, or you'll just look foolish. I mean, it's not like the arguement you're trying to make is even easy to make it appear logical in the first place. Anti wasn't too overbearing about it, but he's basically just pointing out how contradictory your statements are, I agree with him.

And you're just making something simple, wordy. I wasn't making an argument, you even quoted me saying "that's my take on it though." And also all of us are under the assumption that "God" is all knowing when it maybe that it's just an extremely intelligent being.

Oh and btw, drop the elitism.



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Sep 21 2007, 7:04 pm Demented Shaman Post #218



Quote from AntiSleep
And where did the whole homosexuality is an abomination come from? The same book that calls crab shrimp and shellfish an abomination, or could it be that these people were already homophobic, and they use the bible to reinforce their beliefs?

http://www.fallwell.com/selective%20quotation.html
That website is similar to something I quoted from DrunkenWrestler earlier in this topic.

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if he wants to appeal to christianity, then he better not be wearing clothes of more than 1 type of fabric, eating pigs because of their split hooves, working on sundays, and if someone rapes his sister she'd better marry him, he'd better beat his wife and stone his kids if they're disobeident, and all the other gay shit christians don't wanna follow anymore but somehow wanna follow this anti homosexuality rule




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Sep 21 2007, 9:12 pm Dapperdan Post #219



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And you're just making something simple, wordy. I wasn't making an argument, you even quoted me saying "that's my take on it though."

Well, I think your take is totally irrelevant (in this instance). I can't make any sense of it. If you wish to elaborate then ok, but as it stands now, "the path is known but the choice isn't" has no logical reasoning from what I can see. And another reason I approached your arguement the way I did was because it seemed in general with your sequence of statements that you were trying to make an arguement for something you didn't necessarily believe in, but were just simply posing an arguement for it, as no one else was.

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Oh and btw, drop the elitism.

Nothing I said had anything to do with or was related to elitism. That was way out of left field.



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Sep 22 2007, 3:27 am Demented Shaman Post #220



Quote from CookiesLikeWhoa
And also all of us are under the assumption that "God" is all knowing when it maybe that it's just an extremely intelligent being.
God can be so many things that anyone can just make up. However, the truth is that God is really an omnipotent omniscient mass of spaghetti and meatballs. God may also be a tiny teapot between Earth and Mars.



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