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Originally posted by budski
Why should any kind of homosexuality need an explanation?
As far as I'm concerned, sexuality is a very small part of any person and whatever floats their boat is fine by me as long as they are also a decent person.
This thread seems to have a slight homophobic feel to it.....
Originally posted by Where2Hide2006
Have you considered that Perhaps in understanding what makes a person gay will actually help them to be accepted by a larger majority.
Originally posted by Where2Hide2006
well for me personally I already accept my gay friends as the decent people that they are. Its only my curiousity that leads me to ask these questions, the same curiousity that had me ask my father why is the sky blue when I was a child, I just like to understand things and consider different possibilities for the unanswered questions.
Please don't take this thread the wrong way.
[edit on 8-5-2007 by Where2Hide2006]
Originally posted by budski
This thread seems to have a slight homophobic feel to it.....
Originally posted by spines
Originally posted by budski
This thread seems to have a slight homophobic feel to it.....
My contribution was not homophobic. It is a novel thought that one can throw around in their minds. I shared this with my good friend and he enjoyed the idea --he did not outrightly dismiss the notion and said that he sort of likes it.
Explination does not denote homophobia whatsoever. Certain individuals may harbor such feelings but for the most part is simply seems to be an idea which, at the very least, should make you think for a bit.
If one attempts to explain why an individual is schizophrenic or autistic when it is a case with no readily apparant cause...they are not doing so in an attempt to explain away the individual or to hide their fear of that individual. They are simply attempting to understand another facet of the intricate and varried human experience.
There are many studies which attempt to discuss and explain sexual orientation. They are not labeled as homophobic...or heterophobic for that matter. They deal with a complicated part of what makes us unique as individuals within a species. I say it again: explination does not always denote phobia.
Oh, and before this gets brought up: No, I am not attempting to compare homosexuals to the mentally ill.
Originally posted by nyk537
They are just people. Leave them alone. They don't need explaining.
I'ts really quite simple isn't it?
Originally posted by Kacen
In all honesty, I think there are tons and tons of more likely scientific explanations for why people are gay that your theory shouldn't even be considered unless we disprove all others.
To be honest, I don't think there is one solid explanation for all gay people, and I think there are different types of gay. I mean there are gay people who are probably born like that, for reasons mentioned in this thread already. And there are probably people who are gay from upbringing or gay because they got sick of the opposite sex, although I don't consider those people true gay people.
Originally posted by nyk537
I don't know why people constantly feel the need to "explain" gay people. Why do they have to come with an explination?
Originally posted by nyk537
Perhaps someone should be looking into "why straight people are straight". How come that doesn't seem to interest people?
Originally posted by OLDMAN_O
The theory seems flawed to me, as other(s) have pointed out, how is it that this is the one element of past life that shines through with such potency? I mean, workable light bulbs have only been around for lets say 110 years, correct? Then shouldn't by default a vast majority of us not understand a light bulb, since
it was not part of our former thousand of lives? If we live for thousands of years of incarnated then reincarnated life in the absence of something, such as a refrigerator, then shouldn't the one or two generations of lives we have which include refrigerators then shouldn't many of us have a natural fear of refrigerators?