I love the smell of a beef burger cooking. Yummy. Then top it off with streaky bacon, cheese and salad. **drools** But have you ever wondered where your beef burger comes from? No? You know beef is cow’s meat. Let me explain how cows turn into burgers. People slaughter the cow, cut it open, allow the blood to drain from the body, slice them up and sell them to stores. Then we buy them. Cook it, then eat it. What’s wrong with that? Oh, I’m sorry, you think this is inhumane(?)* In case you haven’t realised, people have killed animals for thousands of years. You can’t argue the fact that meat tastes so good.
Why have humans, as a race, got teeth specially equipped for eating tough meats? Animals eat other animals. We are nothing but advanced animals. I love how vegetarians and vegans think they are helping by not eating meats. Meat production is a business, a profitable business. I will never stop eating meat, even if I have to slaughter it and kill it myself.
I’d also like to make a point; did you know that some beer has fish scales (well isinglass is used) in it? You didn’t know that? Huh? Eating meat is natural, like using solar energy. No-one will condemn you for it.
Yup, that’s what he thinks. I do agree that animals and humans are different, but only in the sense that humans are more advanced than animals. Simple as that. In the video, he indirectly describes being gay as a “lifestyle”. I just have one question for that; Why have I always been attracted to men? Bring gay is clearly not a lifestyle choice. And I know many people who’ve had a good up-bringing and are gay. So that rules that theory out the window. He babbled on about animals and humans for quite some time. He also compares being gay to alcoholism and drug-use, which really I don’t see really how this is relevant.
It continues and talks about STDs. The fact of the matter is more straight people have STDs than gay people. So, uhm, epic fail. Regarding anal sex. I don’t think that’s exclusive to gay people, is it? No, I’m sure straight men have had, and will continue to have anal sex with a woman. So fail!
Another point I would like to make is, I didn’t choose to be gay, in any way, shape or form. I’m physically and emotionally attracted to the same-sex, simple as that. I seriously have no desire to look for a “mate” with the opposite gender.
In one of the comments on the video, the commenter said you can’t be born gay, because of puberty doesn’t start until people are in their teens. But, question, no children, ever, have had sexual urges. Well, not to my knowledge. So how would any child actually, truly know that they were gay, straight, or bisexual? They wouldn’t. I believe know that being gay is in my DNA, simply because I have at the most 5% attraction to a woman.
Do homophobic people think I even want this argument? I hated myself for six years for being gay. Do you think I wanted to feel that anger, that feeling of self-betrayal, that horrible feeling when you don’t even love yourself? Do you honestly think I wanted to feel those things? No. No, I fucking didn’t!!! I had to learn how to love myself. I bet not one single straight person can even compare to how I felt, or any gay person felt when they knew that they were gay. It truly breaks your own heart. You feel worthless, alone, ashamed.
Bottom line; I am only me, and I will never stop being me. You don’t have to like it, but don’t dare tell me your feelings if you’re against homosexuality! I’m actually shaking with rage as I type this. People need a good slap in the face sometimes. Grr.
I think men in my age group and especially younger think about sex and having sex for most of their time. It’s sort of disheartening if I’m honest. I think that men who think like this are really just very horny and are unwilling to suppress their emotional state. I like the idea of getting to know someone and to do things with someone, like go out and have fun, just seems more appealing to me. I am on a few gay social networking sites (as they describe themselves, even though some men use them for cruising) and people do ask me regularly “where are you?” “Are you hung?” “Wanna have some fun?”. It’s disgusting. Meeting random strangers, just to have sex?
I do realise it’s 2012, and I do know that there is a good few genuine people out there. It’s not all bad. In my eyes, sex is something that two people who care a lot about each other should only do. I never have sex without at least, with the intent of dating. I don’t even kiss a guy without wanting something meaningful. I do make that very clear with people. Not everyone has my views, and that’s OK. Maybe I’m just an old-fashioned gay who just wants a relationship and not just sex. Is that so wrong? Or am I just looking in the wrong places for a “partner”?
When I was researching this topic, I found out from more of an emotional side, there is a massive difference in “fuck me, I’m horny” sex and “hey, I love you” sex. With non-emotional sex, there is little sexual tension released. So maybe you need, or feel the need to have more sex to release sexual tension. However, with loving or relationship sex, it seems you can get more pleasure, and so sexual tension is almost completely dissolved. You might feel a less need of sex as a result. You feel happier, etc.
I just don’t see the thrill of emotionless sex, it doesn’t entice me at all. Sorry, guys, LOL. However, if you had the intention of starting a relationship with me, I’d want to get to know you first. Then we’ll see. Just be yourself. I’m not judging, just expressing my own thoughts.
I’ve thought, people in the restaurant where I work know I’m gay. I don’t exactly hide it, nor do I scream “I’m gay!” at the top of my voice either. If people ask, I answer. Simple as. I have a few tattoos, and I’ve been told people have been complaining that my tattoos are visible. I usually have my long sleeve shirt rolled up on the arms. But because Irish law (I think European law ??) shuns gay discrimination in any from, they could be homophobicly attacking me about my tattoos. If I didn’t have visible tattoos, I’m sure they’d complain about something else.
I think people in general look for bad points in people, possibly unintentionally, if you are gay. Especially really religious people. For example, there is this woman who comes into the restaurant where I work always about 2pm and always seems really rude with me for, what I can see, no real reason, other than the fact that I’m gay. Maybe she just hates men in general and wanted to become a nun, but she didn’t want to not have sex. I don’t know, it’s a possibility.
I don’t understand why people have this so hateful feeling in their lives. It’s pointless. Turn your hate into something more productive by taking action on something you believe in. Petty hate to me seems rather childish, rather immature. I usually try to avoid all conflicts with people. It’s just pointless.
My advice if you is if you do feel that rage demon building up inside of you, breathe deeply and count to ten slowly. If you want to say something, say it politely and calmly. This will make the other person lower their voice and hopefully they will eventually calm down. It’s sad to think that there is homophobic people in the world. It really is. But stay strong, and be positive.
1. Do you believe in gay marriage?
2. Do you believe people are born gay?
3. What about the men who come out of prison… “gay?” Were they already gay to begin with?
4. Do you think you can “become” gay through experimenting?
5. What would you do if you found out your child was gay?
6. Do you believe in bisexuality?
My comment for this is still pending, but here it is:
Can gay people answer these too? LOL
1. Do you believe in gay marriage?
- Actually no, I don’t agree with any marriage, gay, straight, bi, whatever. I believe “marriage” is more of a religious thing.
2. Do you believe people are born gay?
- Yeah, I do. I didn’t realise I was gay until I’m 15. I actually looked at a guy and thought to myself, without realising what I was doing, “wow, he’s cute”. It only dawned on me a while later that I was gay.
3. What about the men who come out of prison… “gay?” Were they already gay to begin with?
- From what I believe, prisons are usually just one gender in them, and straight men have an urge for sex. I think that when a man has anal sex with another prison inmate, either of them might like it. So, it’s not really becoming gay, more finding out they are bisexual.
4. Do you think you can “become” gay through experimenting?
- Question 3 sort of answers that. It’s like saying you don’t like the taste of an orange, yet you’ve never had an orange. Then when you do have your first orange, you like it. So, it’s more oblivion that “becoming”.
5. What would you do if you found out your child was gay?
- How does that change who they are? I don’t understand why parents can make such a big deal about it, to be honest. If I was a straight parent, I wouldn’t make a big deal about it and support them in any way I could.
6. Do you believe in bisexuality?
- For me, personally, I find men attractive, yet, I could see myself having sex with a woman, just for pleasure and not love. So, it’s possible depending on the person.
7. Why are women more likely to engage in sexual “gay” acts than men?
- Are they? Did you forget “straight” before “women” and “men? Men have bigger egos. They are “too proud” of their straight-ness to kiss a guy. BUT, if a man is 100% comfortable with his sexuality, it shouldn’t matter.
8. Is it possible to engage in “gay sexual acts” and not be gay?
- Are we talking about just sex, or sex and love, or just love? For sex only, yes. For love, no.
9. Are you homophobic?
- No, I’m racist to homophobic people.
10. Should gay parents be able to adopt?
- Why not? Think about it. How many times is there an unexpected pregnancy? With gay men, the baby/child is ALWAYS wanted.
I want to discuss question number 5; "What would you do if you found out your child was gay?" I don't see how nor why this should really matter. It's not like your child is any different from when you didn't know s/he was gay. You should always love and support your child no matter what. I did actually want to blog about this topic yesterday, hence why I'm posting this on a Thursday. I want to show you a video that actually made me chuckle, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVAtVil3oWo
"The Devil is inside of you". I really hope that's a joke. LOL.
Forgive me blog readers, it’s been month since my last blog. I haven’t blogged recently because I was trying to focus on myself a lot more, and figure out some things in my head. I do not wish to elaborate on this too much. So we’ll go back a bit and go back to last Saturday….
So, I have chatted to a friend for a while now. I’m trying so hard not to say too much personal information. But we were suppose to meet up on Sunday. Maybe he fancied me or whatever. I don’t really think I felt that from him at all, but maybe, I don’t know. I was looking forward to meeting up and chatting and just getting to know him as a person. But Sunday came, and he didn’t contact me at all, or hasn’t tried to contact me as of writing this post. I got severely depressed over this. A simple “I don’t want to meet up with you because….” would have stopped the depressive monster returning. I’m not a guy who socialises a lot. I do welcome it when I can. All I wanted was simply to have a laugh and good time with someone else. That’s it. I went a little overboard and fell into the “depression pit”. I felt like a fool.
On Monday morning, I went into work and we’re doing a “Soup for Life” campaign this week, to help raise money for the Irish charity Gorta. That made me realise that there are people far worse off than I am, and that I should feel happy with what I’ve got. It took until Tuesday to fully accept what had happened and I tried to pick myself back up.
I felt pretty worthless at that time. If you ever feel that worthless, just remember one thing; someone loves you. Someone in your life knows you’re important to them. So don’t do anything stupid. I know that feeling of depression all too well, but you have to pick yourself back up and carry on. Cos if you don’t, you’ll fall deeper and deeper. Do something that makes you happy. Go to YouTube and watch bloopers or watch a good movie. Just take your mind off how you feel, with doing anything you can.
Also, happy Spring!!! Finally! Not that we had much of a Winter, with the second hottest Christmas Day in Ireland since records began with highs of 13°C (55°F). That’s hot for Ireland in Winter. Our Winter was very mild though, especially compared to earlier years. In 2010, we had snow on the ground from November 24th to the end of January. not only was having that much snow irregular for us, but it was the earliest snowfall since the 1960s. The temperatures were about lows of -10°C (14°F) to highs of -2°C (28°F), so this Winter was a nice relief from that.
Don’t forget, it’s still the beginning of the year. You can still do the things you want to do. Just be happy in whatever you’re doing.
S.O.P.A. (Stop Online Piracy Act) is an United States impending law that stops copyright infringement over the Internet. It would affect worldwide sites. What this actually means, putting into lame-man’s terms, is that websites who (whether a user or the webmaster) upload copyrighted content will be prosecuted or have their website shut down. For example, the likes of Limewire and other torrent sharing sites that is mostly user-content that has songs, music videos, movies, etc. (which I presume 99% are under copyright), will probably be shut down if the bill becomes law. I think the exceptions are e.g. YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, WE7.com, and the likes who all have either a contract or some agreement with the copyright holders.
So how do I get free music? I hear you ask. Uhm, you don’t. I think that’s the point. You wouldn’t go into a music store, grab a CD, and simply walk out with it without paying for it, would you? So, why do it online? Technically, it’s stealing, or to be more exact, it’s allowed stealing. Currently, you can just go online and download millions of songs for free. But who gave you that right? The whole point of SOPA is that if you want to share/use music via your own website, you need to pay for it.
I was talking about this on Facebook a while ago, and a friend said he “wants to help the little guys”, meaning the little websites that made music, etc available for download on their sites for free. I said to my friend, but what about the “little guys” of music, that singer who can’t make it big, because their music is been publicly broadcast and downloaded for free? How will they go further in their career if you keep taking their hard work away from them for free? The saying “money makes the world go ’round” is true, especially for “little” music artists or “little” actors. Without money, how will they get to be a big shot? How will they be able to be as big as Lady Gaga if you don’t pay for their music?
For example, have you heard of the artist “Shiloh”. No? You may know her as Onsion’s (ex-)girlfriend on YouTube, but did you know she has her own music album? How do you expect Shiloh to get high into the charts if you don’t buy her songs? Do you want to crush her dreams? That’s just one person. How many dreams of other people are you going to destroy? How many more hopes and desires do you need to crush before you realise that downloading music illegally for free is wrong? It has to stop.
People are bitching, saying SOPA is wrong, blah blah blah. It’s not, the truth of the matter is, people don’t have the money or are unwilling to pay for music and movies. But it’s not yours, is it? You may own a copy of it, but it’s not yours. You pay for a copy of the original to play privately for as many times as you’d like, wherever you like. That doesn’t give you the right to go play it on your radio station. But, it’s not yours to take if you haven’t paid for it. It’s not yours to publicly broadcast, whether online or in fact, anywhere else. You are breaching copyright. You violated the law for your own personal need.
My point is; copyrights are there to protect people’s personal work that they want to publicly broadcast. You have no right to take that. You can possibly buy it, but not take it for free.
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