chipfryer wrote:
Great, you were here first.
I don't remember mentioning you or Rat at all when I said the above?
You have both made comments, blaming me for the Newsgroup going "downhill" somehow, with people being "mean" to each other in heated discussions.
I mentioned that I was here BEFORE YOU TWO, only because, you were both unaware that things have been much more vicious on here BEFORE YOU TWO GOT HERE, and NOT because of me. I tried to play peace maker when people were attacking others on here "personally".
That's the only reason that comment was made. You guys were unaware of that fact.
Things were not "better" before... just different.
These are just heated discussions for the most part... not too much personal attacks.
But I may take a break again.
I get that you guys would prefer a place where nothing serious is discussed, and people just joke around. And joking is good. Laughing is healthy. I've just not understood why people can't joke around as much as they want anyway?
What I thought about it, is that maybe the real problem, is that I spend TOO MUCH TIME here, and so I post alot (both musical and noon-musical) and it's easy for me to respond to everyone consistently, because I have had the time to do it lately.
I'll try and give it a rest for awhile.
I share my beliefs with others, and I like them sharing theirs with me too, because I enjoy seeing how my beliefs, collected over many years, stand up to scrutiny... and I ALWAYS learn alot in the process. I figure WE ALL learn something from communicating?
I know I do.
Take homosexuality for example.
I'm not gay, so I don't think alot about it usually. But when Colors had expressed that many Christians judge homosexuals as sinners and evil, etc.. because they are gay... it made me think about it more. And as I do so, it refines my own thinking on it, and I believe I now have a better understanding of it, and may even have some methods of PROVING to other Christians, that it is not such a simple issue of sin, as they inherited from ancient understandings of what makes someone homosexual.
Do you know how many hundreds of years, Christian ministers have been putting homosexuals down as the most evil reprobates there are? On par with child molesters?
There is now SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE that PROVES that homosexuals REALLY ARE born that way, and key to it, is their brain's processing. Homosexual men, have brain patterns (from infancy) that resemble a "WOMAN'S BRAIN" rather than a heterosexual Male's. And the same for Homosexual women. They have brain patterns (from infancy) that resemble a "MAN'S BRAIN" rather than a heterosexual woman's.
So, there is an example right there, how because of a RELIGIOUS discussion, I gained valuable information and insights into it, and good arguments, that may in fact HELP OTHERS to be more tolerant of homosexuality, rather than judge them so harshly for being BORN the way they were BORN!
Maybe that would help the world just a little?
Maybe some Christians would be more respectful and understanding now, of someone who is different, rather than preach FROM PULPITS that they are "evil" or "possessed by the devil" or any other superstitious belief about it, which is not accurate.
Maybe there would be less discrimination and less violence against other human beings as a result, if others could learn these things too?
I realize that people are "annoyed" sometimes, for the discussions I engage in, but in my heart, I am going for the GREATER GOOD, and hoping to change the world for the better, even if only, in some small ways.
But I have had ample opportunities to share what I believe, and learn what others believe.
I'll try and give it a break.
I'm gonna be working on finishing alot of songs I have already started.
Be happy!
Try and understand my heart, and maybe you won't hate me, for trying to learn from others, and teach others what I have learned.
He and John went at it just awhile back, threatening to kick each other's asses (all online, as usual) 
