Posts made by notquiteme

just wondering if we'll see it in… context.  a bigger context.

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@notquiteme:

Good looking, but not my type

You don't go in for guys with coloured in faces?  :laugh:

Actually, he has a nicely sculpted body… but i need more... chunky goodness.  hehehe i'm more into the bigger, more muscular (or chubby) men.  if muscular, think contenders in world's strongest man.

hahaha her husband draws those.

One of the trilogies i've read, the Last Herald Mage trilogy written by Mercedes Lackey has a gay protagonist.

I read this way back about… junior year high school.  I could just relate to the homophobic parents, but since i'm not out yet, i couldn't really rrelate to the rest of it.

There's a significant saying there which says "It doesn't matter what the form is, as long as there is love, the gods are pleased"  I wish the world would think the same way.

funny!  i'm not sure if warpaint would be sexy, though.

FUNNY!!!! hehehe

Yeah, I agree with most of this.  I'm just curious that… if your head is cut off, it is also probably due to the same theory that "The Quran says so" or some other holy Book says so, still doesn't wash.  Unfortunately it might seem that personal insight isn't very well encouraged in those kind of... extremist groups.

So let's not just focus on our own religion here, because it would definitely be nice if all the religions were tolerant of others.  But we know that is just not the case.

I'm okay to let this rest, actually.  Just putting my thoughts down.

interesting question…

as long as we're going wine tasting…

load on the parma ham, olives, figs, and make sure we have more than 4 kinds of cheese, one hard, one soft, one semi hard, and one blue.  Aside from the blue cheese, the others sound soooo... sexy.

You forgot the country.

Philippines
Both public and private.  Generally if you want better service you have to go with the private one.

Medicines are hardly ever subsidized, but there has been a movement towards generic medicines that don't cost quite as much.

No bribes to doctors necessary.

Normally if you're working for a corporation they also try to provide you with some form of health coverage, so you have to pay much less for any checkups, tests, and procedures.  Usually it's free for those three, unless you've managed to exceed the company's allocation for your healthcare.

We can't.  nobody can.  Might as well ask… how do we determine that WE are correct?  In my book, "The Bible says so" just doesn't wash, because all religions would have a sacred text of their own.

I think that there is a certain group of people theorizing that wrong ethics/morality exists only when the person cannot see God/Humanity/himself in the other person's shoes.  I think that's a pretty good gauge, if difficult to operationalize.

yeah that looks great!

Net of the scandalous priests, I have no argument against the chaste nuns and priests.  I believe it's possible to live that life.  Good for them.  I'm aware that "brothers and sisters" in the Bible may actually refer to cousins, in this case.  Of course i have absolutely no idea whether Mary or Joseph had siblings.

Personally I have to believe that most of the priests and nuns are religiously upright, because they do fill a very important role.

i love'm! but the arses have to be… chunky hehehe. 

Good looking, but not my type

I see.  I'm not worried about him cheating on me.  We're both honest enough with each other, that if any issue comes up, we can sit down and talk it over like rational human beings.  Of course that would still freak me out, but we would probably talk first hehehe.

hmmm i'm intrigued by the gabonese references

should be bulkier… for me hehehe.

Okay.  I'm just not too rigid about all of it, maybe.  I know there are so many right-wingers out there, so maybe I shouldn't really think about the way they do things, because it really bothers me.

On the other hand i think Mary wasn't a virgin, technically because all it requires is a broken/torn hymen.  And giving birth tears it.  But i also think she was chaste/celibate, at least until she got married to Joseph.  I just have this feeling that she may still have had children, but I'm not too strongly opinionated.  I simply think there was no evidence to support it, either way.  So i don't object to or raise the topic.

Let me say this:  while most of the teachings are truly universal, I would say that when I say "decided on your own", you in fact use your judgement and not simply follow blindly.  I can like the Catholic teachings (i do, most of them anyway) but I would also be able to subscribe to other religion's/philosophies' views.  For example, i was particularly taken with the Hindu concept of Namasti/Namaste.  In it's poetic form, it means "Within you and me is a place where the whole universe resides.  If i am in that place in me, and you are in that place in you, there is only one of us."  I'm spending my time trying to take this in, because it essentially captures the idea that all people are deserving of respect, no matter your past, religion, personality, quirks or failings, and that we all have the capacity to "include" everyone else.  There really isn't a directly correlated concept in the Catholic faith, but this idea doesn't contradict anything in the Catholic faith, either.

We're able to filter and choose the best from all sources, and no matter what the form, as long as it is real love, then i think God would be pleased.

Hahaha.  I'd understand why you'd kill him.  But i wouldn't