Post 1416, Day 119 of 2015
- 1,580 days since I started this blog -
- 1,580 days since I started this blog -
I had no consciousness of homosexuality. I hadn't figured out (or spent any thought trying to figure out) which of my friends growing up were gay (more than a couple). I didn't have much of an idea about heterosexuality either, as it turns out.
Maybe it was naivete that I didn't felt threatened or pressured in my first foray into a gay scene. The audience was appreciative. They danced. They tried to buy the band drinks (none for me - the bartender wasn't having any of that, and he also, as it turns out, was spreading the word to not proposition band members). I was 'safe' from any homosexual peer pressure.
It wasn't long before I had friends who were gay and open about it. I didn't get a whole lot of insight into the scene, we interacted the way friends do, without any real sexual component.
The only problem I ever had with a gay man was on a flight back to NY from Madrid, when a Catholic priest sitting next to me got very, very handsy. I changed my seat. It reinforced my negative feelings about the Church, but didn't change anything about my feelings for gay men.
I'm writing this because I haven't been able to avoid the news that the Supreme Court is taking up the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. That's what happens when I get the news. I thought the issue had been settled the way it was, in my mind, fifty years ago.
Didn't think it was still an issue, except for the usual homophobic suspects (Catholic Priests and their Bible-thumping ilk).
Very simply, we are all trying to make it through, as best we know how. If you follow the Golden Rule, you'll do the right thing. Imposing your ideas on anybody else? That's Golden Rule-breaking stuff, right there.
You are my brother, my sister. No matter what you believe, what you look like, the amount we have in common is many orders of magnitude greater than our differences.
The world is a crazy place, and the US is among the craziest places in the world. This is among the two things I can't believe are still an issue here (legal pot is the other one).
Food and Diet Section
Today's Weight: 203.0 lbs
Today's Weight: 203.0 lbs
Previous Weight (4/28): 201.0 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain: + 2.0 lbs
Diet Comment
Late night snacking is, I think, responsible for this blip. I don't know what caused the carb craving that led to dessert after lunch. Diet Comment
A Quest bar.
Lunch
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| Deluxe bacon cheeseburger, with spaghetti squash on the side. Not shown: A salad from the salad bar, a piece of chocolate cake for dessert. |
A Quest bar.
Dinner
Turkey chili (with black beans) and cole slaw.
Snack
A Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Coffee: 28 oz. Water: 98+ oz. A shot of Jameson's.
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i must be in a knit-picking mood today. While i completely agree with your application of the Golden Rule, i don't see how the US is even remotely "among the craziest places in the world". When i think of crazy places my thoughts turn to the places where, to my mind, the most unnecessary suffering is inescapably inflicted upon Humans by other Humans. i'm thinking of the places where a persons choices are not choices at all. Where one's concerns are life and death as opposed to those of power and politics, social status and upward mobility, luxury and self indulgence. i think about the effects of starvation, malnutrition, lack of clean water for drinking and sanitation, the homeless and displaced, the forcibly broken families, the innocents (good, bad, old young, male, female) murdered by war and genocide. i think of the Mideast, central, east, and north Africa, parts of practically the whole Third World. Now those, to me , are crazy places to be.
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Yes. The world is a crazy place
ReplyDeleteWe just don't mean the same thing when we think 'crazy'. By crazy, in this context, I'm talking about ridiculous, nonsensical, illogical, unreasonable. You're talking about crazy as tragic: oppressive, inhumane, hateful, cruel; by that, I agree with you, the US isn't the craziest. By what I meant, I think you see that, with the plentiful resources and affluence in this country, we are bat-shit crazy in concentrating on and exploiting for profit agendas that pose a real problem (like the ones you list) for exactly nobody.
ReplyDeletei'm talking about crazy as ridiculous, nonsensical, illogical, unreasonable tragic, oppressive, inhumane, hateful, cruel. It is the same crazy everywhere. The difference from place to place is just a matter of degree.
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