Posted on 09/16/2005 9:33:24 AM PDT by mlc9852
The interesting thing is that people who know me consider me practically a comedian.
An acting teacher (I took a few classes in improv just for the heck of it, years ago) told me I was a natural for comedy.
It's a dry wit, usually...
:-)
Actually, and I think I said so in my pinging comment, that I was hesitant to ping the list because of the raunchy comments. The exact opposite.
Ah well, the night is young! I might be able to do a few more of the things on my "to do" list.
Excellent comment, lj.
Glad you liked it! :)
Sorry, I saw you quoting me so I assumed you were addressing me.
Thanks for the reply. Well done. I don't hold ire at all towards you, I hope you know that.
God made us all, and we are all worthy of His Love. I am an inherent optomist, probably because I have more blessings than I deserve. We don't agree on joking about , but I bet we agree on more points than those on which we disagree.
Cheers!
Thanks for your generous spirit - no ire here either. I take very seriously the promotion of jettisoning of all morality, which the MSM, media, academia, and many others in positions to influence others are busy doing.
Let's say in my youth I took them at their word, and lived a life of extremes, and suffered from it for years afterwards. I know whereof I speak in the destructive nature of immorality.
OTOH, I love to poke fun at stuff that I consider needs holes poked in it.
God loves us, even tho' at present we aren't worthy, a fine point perhaps, but there it is. All we have to do is give up our rebellion - our desire to be the lord of our own lives (and of others'...) and let Him be the Lord. The Prodigal Son is just about my favorite story.
Again, I say, well done!
My 15 yo boys have minimal internet acess, no IM's, have seen only one pg-13 movie (I myself do not see rated R movies because I do not want to put that in my head) and we will never have a video game system. TV is mostly sports events and history channel. I have been married for 20 years. Everyone in my family is still married to their only spouse. I am as puritanical as anyone. But I laugh at just about anything, including myself.
I have several gay friends and a gay cousin. My beliefs in that regard fall far from yours. I have infinite faith in God and man, that together, we are on the path we are meant to travel, so I don't worry about much. Except maybe when I'm having a bad hair day! ;) Life is good.
And I'm an academic. (Adjunct professor at a "prominant philadelphia university", as they say) Don't worry too much about what you hear is going on in schools. Yes, most professors are liberal. But I have never had word one said to me about my (vocal) beliefs. I have gotten every promotion I earned. Liberals laugh with me and have fun ribbing me, but it has always been in a spirit of respect and jest and they take my ribbing back. The liberalism is there, true, but it isn't that influential. The students I teach are savvy. Some kids buy what the professor says, some don't. Family means more than professors; the way it's always been. At least that is the way I see it. Just a small piece of a big world.
I think sometimes people tell you the sky is falling because it makes them feel important.
So if I go to a counselor and say "I've really been wondering about trying murder. It just seems like the right thing for me to do". Should he encourage me or discourage me? Even though murder will hurt people and hurt me and hurt my family it's what I feel I need to do. Should he encourage me or discourage me?
So how is this any different from sexual perversity. It hurts others, it hurts me and it hurts my family. Any one who encourages it shouldn't be in a counselling position. and this pos encouraged her to break her vows and commit perversity.
Or maybe "I've really wondered about abandoning my family and going off to have sexual relations with the neighbor's dog". Or maybe "I have a contract with this company for personal services and I'm wondering about defaulting on it and going to work for another company".
In all these cases the therapist should counsel the questioner to do the right thing. Not the "feel good" thing. A marriage contract should be as rock solid as any commercial contract. This therapist couselled her to default on her contract and to perform behavior that are damaging to her.
He should be sued, discredentialed, tarred and feathered, and shunned by all decent people for life. He is an accessory to perversion.
Are you aware of a concept called personal responsibility?
The idea was already in the woman's head. No one forced her. She had free will. She made her choice.
She also made the choice to continue on with a counselor that would encourage her in what she already wanted to do.
The only recourse the husband may have had might have been alienation of affection but in this day and age I don't think that's a legitimate legal charge. Even when it was, I don't believe the therapist could have been sued for financial recompense, only used as a reason for divorce.
His issue isn't with the therapist but with his wife who was the one who didn't honor her vows.
Incipient Sappho action FLASHBACK ping!
Good times, good times . . .
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