Calling out for Ideas

[Dameon Angell]

What is a burning topic on your mind right now? It could be an event, a question, some sort of item or game. I don't care what it is, just name it here.

[t0k3up]

I've got a topic..and it's not war.

What's been burning my mind other than the war is homophobic people. Why can't they just accept people for who they are? Humans are perhaps the most shallow creatures on Earth. A very large majority of humans are so shallow that they judge and place people in categories such as nerds, jocks, preps...it kind of pisses me off. I have my hair long because I like it long, not because I'm a hardrocker. I dress with baggy pants because they're comfortable to me, not because I'm trying to fit in with other people. I listen to heavy metal/death metal because that's my preferance of music, not be be different in my family or to listen to the same genre my friends do. People judge my friend David a lot too and it really pisses me off... Anyway, to the topic...I have no religion or beliefs, but even if I was...say a Christian I'd be against the fact that homosexuality is a sin. I suppose God is homophobic, too. People say that we're here to produce offspring...uhh...maybe to you, but I'd rather live a life not as a manwhore. Say you're a guy and you're homophobic...if you like watching lesbian porn, are you really homophobic? Leave the homosexuals live the way they want to live and leave them alone...what they do is none of your business unless you want to hear what they have to say.

[Ender]

Re: I've got a topic..and it's not war.

Originally posted by t0k3up
Humans are perhaps the most shallow creatures on Earth.

Actually, we're the only species capable of, or able to conceive of being shallow minded.
If you're really frustrated with the prevailing ignorance of our world, I can only say thats its not so prevailing anymore, and that there is progress being made.

Here:

From Robin Morgan: Saturday's Child, a Memoir (2001)

We know the basic political plot, and time is on our side, though exasperatingly slow. The how is where suspense, dramatic tension, and comic relief play out. I know it's unfashionable to believe in progress, but I think we are evolving. A more humane politics does eventually win out and will continue to do so (barring an ultimate catastrophe born of human stupidity), and historical perspective helps us tolerate the wait. But how tedious to have to wait at all, much less be warned we should consider giving up. (That must be how the blasé tide regards sandbags and dikes.) ... The senators and congressmen who castigate progressives now are the same breed (in a few cases the same men) who in the 1950s attacked Euripides, Christopher Marlowe, and Mark Twain as communists and in the 1960s predicted racial segregation would endure forever. When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming "God gave us fingers with which to eat." And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

[t0k3up]

Thanks for the correction and info....whoa...a new wrinkle in my brain!