Posted on 07/16/2010 6:59:50 AM PDT by flowerplough
Good thing you didn’t call them water buffaloes.
Another nugget of self-perceived genius from Danah:
my queer identity
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/12/09/my_queer_identity.html
A few days ago, an anonymous reader reached out to me to kindly inform me that i could be saved, offering me prayers in my path to finding Jesus.
I decided to take this opportunity to be upfront about my sexuality and my views for those who don’t know me so well and for those of you who are struggling with attacks or pressure or guilt because of your sexuality. I believe that no one has the right to make you feel badly for your sexuality and i believe that the struggle we all face is how to find peace and comfort in who we are and how we interact with others. It is with a grounded sense of self that is very rooted in my own religious values that i offer you my views on sexuality. They don’t have to be your views, but you can only respect me if you respect that this is who i am and what i believe.
I have strong religious values and beliefs, but they do not believe that guilt, sin, self or projected torture, hate, intolerance, self, or enemies are in any way productive or valuable. My beliefs are rooted strongly in love, respect, honor and kindness. I do not believe that there is ever anything wrong about rooting love in consensual sex. I believe that social efforts to construct something as ‘wrong’ are simply mechanisms to assert power and control, an attempt to play God, not to honor God. In my view, honoring God means honoring yourself and others, working to release yourself of hatred and judgment, finding ways of respecting all forms of life. God’s work means finding peace beyond suffering in order to release ourselves from the cycle of birth/death. No part of God’s work means increasing suffering for anyone in any form.
Even before I got on Myspace I viewed it as immature. Both the setup and most of the people using it. Facebook is a lot better laid out and easier to use, and the people using it connected with a much larger market (parents and grandparents are joining) than Myspace ever did.
Only a liberal can look at common sense and see racism
You go and hang out where your friends are.
Simple as that
I dont know anyone on MySpace, so I never go there- am I a white racist because of that?
Right, because picking up the phone is just too hard to do because that means you have to have a conversation! :)
I don’t dispute that being online to keep in touch with friends/family is a bad thing but it’s just a convenient excuse. Facebook is vapid
I use FB, not Myspace. With that said, I think FB is based on dynamically updated content whereas Myspace much more static. IOW Myspace is sort of 2004-2005 state of the art technology, whereas FB is more 2008-2010. And probably more mobile friendly. Which is why I think initially FB caught on. And of course, from there, there is the snowball effect where popularity begets popularity. Why does everything have to be racial?
Myspace was bought by FOX and that is what finally killed it off. Not that it wasn’t dying anyway.
yes, I use it for musicians I work with — very useful, because you don’t have to join my space to access it. It’s like a web site that’s easy to update.
Facebook is more useful as a quasi-social tool. Or perhaps pseudo social. Because most of the people with whom I’m connected on it are using it for work related things.
I think Facebook is easier to maintain than Myspace.
While you could personalize your Myspace page more than your Facebook one, it actually is more annoying to use as a social network.
Myspace is a network to promote. It gives you more of a platform to talk about yourself and display who you are. Facebook seems more social-oriented.
I don’t think it has anything to do with race, but there again, the media will do anything to divide us. Including ridiculous claims such as these.
face book..the CIA conspiracy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12685
uhhh, no, not everyone can just pick the phone. For that matter, some aren’t allowed enough time for downloading email pics: i.e., my nephew serving our country overseas.
Facebook has been a god-send for the family to stay in touch and share current family pictures regularly with him.
Totally agree. After decades of technological improvements, my brothers and I simply love MP3 players. It’s amazing how all our old systems are replaced by one little device smaller than a credit card.
yeah, because email and chat just wasn’t enough! Come on...you guys are now sounding like addicts.
Seriously?! Facebook has realtime chat on it.
But here’s the deal, Bucko. Between odd work schedules and timezones (like on the other side of this rock), realtime conversations usually isn’t possible.
And who is more the addict? One who uses emails exclusively or the one who uses Facebook quite a bit of the time?
You missed my point. What does Facebook offer that a stand alone chat or email program doesn’t? If it’s just one place for people to post what they are doing at any given time, blogs allowed that long before Facebook. Sure, FAcebook look pretty but it’s nothing new that didn’t exist before. And yes, you are addicted to it.
I guess I’m going to have to repeat myself:
“For that matter, some aren’t allowed enough time for downloading email pics: i.e., my nephew serving our country overseas.”
And if I’m addicted to Facebook, I hate to think what I am to FreeRepublic. I spend a hell of a lot more time here than on Facebook which lately hasn’t been that much.
Just admit it: you were the one who said families shouldn’t write letters, they should just get together. That the telephone was bad, we should write letters to each other. Then emails were bad because we should be phoning each other. Now it’s Facebook...
Who CARES how we stay in touch with each other, at least we do with all of the above. Our posts on Facebook makes a brother states away aching to come home for a visit. (Or is that a “BAD thing”?!)
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