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Friday, March 17, 2006 12:00 AM

My parents disowned me because I'm a lesbian

Now that they're aging, should I just let it go?

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 07:24 PM

They don't deserve to have you in their lives

Your mother is right-Satan's spawn (did she relized she called herself Satan?).

Parents do not disown their children. A definition of a parent is someone who encourages you to be whatever you want to be and is proud of you and loves you no matter what.

You do not have parents. Never did. You are not alone. The best way you can "honor" you parents is to give them the same understanding and support that they gave you: none. Don't give in to the guilt--it will only hurt you.

Read this:

"Children of the Self-Absorbed" by Nina Brown.

Good luck on your journey.

Pablo

Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:51 PM

Wish 4

No name given! I Thank you very much for wishing me Felicity!

I Am! on my Way to Paradise! No more imposed Ups & Downs, Test of Fire, Love, Life! Separations, Hurts, Loneliness!! United to my Beloved in Eternity!! No coming Back!!

Since nothing about my life tends to be Secret, you will Hear of my Achievements as soon as they have been completed! I think soon! Although I may plan to Share my Revelations with the rest of the world for After my Death in order to give myself a chance to live the rest of this life in Peace, Freedom & Happiness!!

There will be no room for Arguments anyway;

no room for questionings;

no room for Doubts; & misinterpetations;

no Gray area.

Maybe you and I we will meet soon; not our next Life!

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 05:24 PM

What they deserve?

Who gets that?

Dear Lesbian - I don't think this is about what your parents deserve. Love and forgivness can't be set on a scale of justice, obligation or return on investment - that's antithetical to what they mean.

I think this is about what *you* deserve - to be free of resentment and regret. Do what you think is right, rather than only what is just. You'll be able to live with that.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:26 PM

Wish

Dear "Be light, don't preach,"

I wish you peace in your next life.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:10 PM

Beauty-seeker (Part 3)

Ciara, there is nothing Light about Hell!

Unless you are blind or deaf, Horror should shock you!! It still shocks me! Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered responding to whatever his name was!!

Instead of trying to score points, meditate on each of my words, I don't have the habit of talking for the sake of talking!!! I talk to Lighten, Enlighten, Free, Empower!!

Never for Easy Consumption, never to Preach!!!

I can hardly be Light with a Jerk around me! Nor Hide!!

It's my Fucking Nature!!!

This one seemed to be a rapist!

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:54 AM

Critique

" . . . . Please don't answer, you made everybody THROW UP on Themselves!!"

While not exactly preachy, that was not quite as light as it might have been.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:39 AM

To the parody of Majority viewpoint

Whoever you are I think you gave a CLEAR description of YOUR OWN LIFE & PRACTICES. That's how far your intellect can go after all! Watch yourself in the mirror, then accuse your enemy of the same crime!!!

After all, I don't know neither of you but I can recognize somebody who talks the Language of Love from someone who uses the Language of HATE, Ignorance and Stupidity!!

Thank you for listening!

Please don't answer, you made everybody THROW UP on Themselves!! Including the LW!! I am sure!! Nobody will benefit from your phoney outrage!!! Smart People can read people's Mind without using Crystal Balls!!! So in the future, try to Shut up because you can only Fool or Inspire Taliban Types or Far-Rights Nuts!!!

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 03:26 AM

I am right. I have to be right. Please see things my way? Please?

I hate gays because the Bible tells me to.

I enjoy watching lesbian porn, though.

I hate myself for what I am, but I've found a religion that enables me to project my self-loathing onto you while I open up my wallet to them.

Sometimes I wonder why a guy in his 30s never married and instead hung around with 12 other confirmed bachelors and then 'submitted' to that whole S&M ending. (That part of Mel Gibson's film made my underpants sticky.)

I like Salon because I can spew while remaining anonymous. In real life I don't have the balls to talk like this. I would get the poop beat out of me.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 02:00 AM

A majority of the people you talk to maybe...

A sadly misguided, uneducated, and ignorant viewpoint

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 06:22 AM

You are NOT the majority

And you ARE hateful. Go to hell, and quit trying to create hell here. Your rationalizations are so much bullshit, and everybody here sees through them.

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:30 PM

Mike_in_NM

It's not hateful, its factual. There is no malice, no harmful intent - but it is harsh, as reality usually is. I am making the assumption that you fall into the "like minded" trap of the group of people who find comfort in like minded people who often justify their own misguided beliefs. I judge not, I opinion often, but I judge not. This is just my belief system and you would be just as assinine to disregard it as irrelevent as I would be to disregard the 3% of our population who is openly homosexual.

My viewpoint is, however, that being homosexual is wrong, but I also know that I can not change someone who makes this CHOICE. Just like I can not change the viewpoint of a crackhead, murderer, rapist, etc. I certainly am not equating the two, but I am recognizing I have as much chance in changing their behavior as I do someone who picks a lifestyle that is of highly moral questionability.

Don't give me the "love your brother" crap either. The bible is full of examples of God punishing entire cities, towns, and families for their transgressions. But I will leave it up to him, heck for all I know, he may say, "My bad, come on in" - I just don't want to test that theory, and I suggest others do the same.

This is not Sodom, or ancient Greece, or Rome... all of these great civilizations fell in part because an ever increasing liberal attitude towards all behaviors. But let me ask just one question... Is it o.k. for me to do anything that my heart desires (regardless of morality) as long as I do not hurt anyone? If you say yes, you obviously have not learned from every other society that engaged in rampant self gratification withour restraints.

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