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Old 05-31-2013, 08:54 AM
 
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I think I may have a demon inside me - how can I get rid of it?

 
Old 05-31-2013, 08:55 AM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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Why do you choose to be ignorant about demon possesion?
No such thing...Why are you so ignorant about mental illness?
 
Old 05-31-2013, 08:55 AM
 
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Jesus is the King of all Creation who will judge the un-saved at the great White Throne Judgment. You don't want to be there. Homosexuality is an abominable act to God. Even murder is not called an abomination in the Bible.
Homosexuality is never called "abomination" in the Bible. Neither word exists in Hebrew. Why are you lying? The same word translated as "abomination" is used for wearing mixed fabrics, eating shellfish, and breaking bread with foreigners.

So are you saying wearing cotton and polyester is more of a sin to God than murder? Or are you just continuing to prove you know nothing about the Bible?
 
Old 05-31-2013, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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No such thing...
Defend that statement.
 
Old 05-31-2013, 09:07 AM
 
Location: Middle of nowhere
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someone isn't really a homox until they have sex, and even then it must be several times at least.
 
Old 05-31-2013, 09:09 AM
 
Location: Southeast, where else?
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[quote=momonkey;29804481]Without homosexual thoughts and/or voluntary homosexual behavior, what would define a person as homosexual?

If nothing else besides thoughts and voluntary behavior define a person as homosexual, isn't homosexuality, by definition, voluntary?

I dunno, waking up with Barney Frank wishing he had a breath mint or two?
 
Old 05-31-2013, 09:14 AM
 
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Without homosexual thoughts and/or voluntary homosexual behavior, what would define a person as homosexual?

If nothing else besides thoughts and voluntary behavior define a person as homosexual, isn't homosexuality, by definition, voluntary?






Discuss.
Is heterosexuality voluntary for you?


Sexual hormones and the brain: an essential alliance for sexual identity and sexual orientation (2010)
Endocr Dev. 2010;17:22-35. Epub 2009 Nov 24. Garcia-Falgueras A, Swaab DF.
The fetal brain develops during the intrauterine period in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge. In this way, our gender identity (the conviction of belonging to the male or female gender) and sexual orientation are programmed or organized into our brain structures when we are still in the womb.

There is no indication that social environment after birth has an effect on gender identity or sexual orientation.
 
Old 05-31-2013, 09:15 AM
 
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Without homosexual thoughts and/or voluntary homosexual behavior, what would define a person as homosexual?

If nothing else besides thoughts and voluntary behavior define a person as homosexual, isn't homosexuality, by definition, voluntary?






Discuss.

Brain scans have provided the most compelling evidence yet that being gay or straight is a biologically fixed trait.
The scans reveal that in gay people, key structures of the brain governing emotion, mood, anxiety and aggressiveness resemble those in straight people of the opposite sex.

"This is the most robust measure so far of cerebral differences between homosexual and heterosexual subjects," she says.

Previous studies have also shown differences inbrain architecture and activity between gay and straight people, but most relied on people's responses to sexuality driven cues that could have been learned, such as rating the attractiveness of male or female faces.

To get round this, Savic and her colleague, Per Lindström, chose to measure brain parameters likely to have been fixed at birth.

"That was the whole point of the study, to show parameters that differ, but which couldn't be altered by learning or cognitive processes," says Savic.

"This study demonstrates that homosexuals of both sexes show strong cross-sex shifts in brain symmetry," says Qazi Rahman, a leading researcher on sexual orientation at Queen Mary college, University of London, UK.

"The connectivity differences reported in the amygdala are striking."
"Paradoxically, it's more informative to look at things that have no direct connection with sexual orientation, and that's where this study scores," says Simon LeVay, a prominent US author who in 1991 reported finding differences(pdf) in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus between straight and gay men.


 
Old 05-31-2013, 09:16 AM
 
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Are you under some mind control mechanism that prevents you from having voluntary thoughts?
You mean like religious zealotry?
 
Old 05-31-2013, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Middle of nowhere
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I think that people should get along with each other and not utilize arbitrary divisions such as race and ethnicity.

We are human beings and in the case of the United States - Americans.

Now answer my question - why are you so obsessed with race that you felt the need to start a divisive thread that only serves to pit people against each other?

Why don't you strive for unity rather than promote division?

Wait - I know - you are a Democrat.

That is just how the dem's roll.
Posted by Harrier.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/29808713-post19.html

Funny. Do you not consider homosexuals to be American citizens?
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