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originally posted by: tavi45
a reply to: James1982
With the best of intentions I suggest you leave the site. It seems to just be making you angrier at the world.
Your anger at how you were treated in the PC thread is now directed at the LGBT community. I'm assuming you were inspired to create this thread by a very recent one that was created.
I participated in your earlier rant thread with perfectly good intentions and great empathy so I hope you don't take this as an attack. You just seem to be getting affected negatively by this website.
originally posted by: IShotMyLastMuse
I mean if all you need to do is say/think you feel like someone/something then nothing is stopping me from saying i feel black, or Chinese or whatever.
originally posted by: doompornjunkie
a reply to: tavi45
Who exactly do you think you are suggesting someone leave the site? I detected no anger in the OP's post what so ever.
In fact I found it rather interesting as he brought up some valid points in how we as a society view people and their identities.
the repeating cycle of birth, life and death (reincarnation) as well as one's actions and consequences in the past, present, and future in Hinduism, Buddhism, Bon, Jainism, Taoism, and Sikhism.
According to the view of these religions, a person's current life is only one of many—stretching back before birth into past existences and reaching forward beyond death into future incarnations.
In popular use, Saṃsāra may refer to the world (in the sense of the various worldly activities which occupy ordinary, ignorant human beings), the various sufferings thereof; or (mistakenly) the unsettled and agitated mind through which reality is perceived.
In Hinduism, it is avidya, or ignorance, of one's true self that leads to ego-consciousness of the body and the phenomenal world. This grounds one in kāma (desire) and the perpetual chain of karma and reincarnation. Through egotism and desire one creates the causes for future becoming. The state of illusion that gives rise to this is known as Maya.
originally posted by: skalla
a reply to: James1982
My concern here is that you are clearly parodying an intro thread by a new member posted these last 24 hours or so, and that in itself is pretty poor form and unwelcoming.
originally posted by: GENERAL EYES
a reply to: James1982
I suppose we could try to look at it from the perspective of Saṃsāra
In short:
the repeating cycle of birth, life and death (reincarnation) as well as one's actions and consequences in the past, present, and future in Hinduism, Buddhism, Bon, Jainism, Taoism, and Sikhism.
According to the view of these religions, a person's current life is only one of many—stretching back before birth into past existences and reaching forward beyond death into future incarnations.
In popular use, Saṃsāra may refer to the world (in the sense of the various worldly activities which occupy ordinary, ignorant human beings), the various sufferings thereof; or (mistakenly) the unsettled and agitated mind through which reality is perceived.
In short, our souls have been reincarnated onto this plane of existence to learn something...not only about the mysteries of the world around us, but also the mysteries of the nature of our true selves.
If there is any validity to the cycle of rebirth, it would stand to reason that there may be a lifetime in which a soul finds him or herself in a body that it does not quite "identify with". Whether it be the sex one is assigned at birth, or the color of ones skin, hair or eyes, or even as far as not feeling like one belongs in the time period or cultural lands of ones birth.
In short, being reincarnated is pretty hit or miss...in fact, the idea of Saṃsāra goes on to state that:
In Hinduism, it is avidya, or ignorance, of one's true self that leads to ego-consciousness of the body and the phenomenal world. This grounds one in kāma (desire) and the perpetual chain of karma and reincarnation. Through egotism and desire one creates the causes for future becoming. The state of illusion that gives rise to this is known as Maya.
Is it possible that Trangender and Transracial (as well as other issues along this vein) arise due to a karmic rebirth in this cycle as we struggle under the yolk of our own cosmic maturation into fully realized and learned beings?
originally posted by: IShotMyLastMuse
a reply to: James1982
At the risk of sounding like an old fart or something, i think the possible outcomes will be depressing.
i love diversity, that's the main reason i travel so much, and i don't want to live in a society where everyone is a collage of things they like, when it comes to genders/sex i don't really care, that happens in your bedroom, so it's not really my business, but the whole trans race/culture thing is different. i can just imagine the SJW movement rushing in and telling me how to respect everyone's oversensitive feelings.
and what's even worse is the idea that people will start looking like those horrible ganguro girls. bleah.
At some point doesn't it all become a desperate cry for attention?