Posted on 12/01/2004 6:07:56 AM PST by presidio9
Here's my suggestion: let them have it. Just do it. Let the sexually bitter and morally frantic conservative groups now dictating governmental policy and FCC agendas and paranoid media attitudes have their time, their brief cultural burp, their little speed bump on the great and beckoning highway that will still lead us all, inexorably, irreversibly, though often agonizingly, toward grinning open-thighed progress.
Because here's the fabulous thing: no matter what these faux-Christian groups do, no matter how hard they oppress and protest and clamp down, this is a road that leads, despite all dour headlines and sour prognostications otherwise, toward spiritual illumination, toward awareness, toward sexual openness and same-sex marriage and revelatory sodomy and free vibrators for teenage girls and lesbians kissing open mouthed in the streets. In Kentucky. In the daytime. On Sunday.
It's true. All this and more, is gonna happen. This is my belief. Superlative homemade pornography and fetish dungeons and happy dildo supermarkets and the utter brilliance of the Suicide Girls and regular people having juicy consensual reasonably kinky respectful sex like it's no big deal, and it's all a matter of time, isn't it, before it will all erupt back to the surface of the culture and spread like hot karmic butter across the land. Maybe? You think?
And when that time comes, we shall look back on Janet Jackson's Nipplegate and the Monday Night Football backlash and the shrill outcry from various conservative and religious groups against the superlative movie "Kinsey" in the same way people look back on old bunions or leg warmers and laugh and point and shake their heads and sigh.
Because right now, we seem to be stuck. Mired. Hateful and narrow and sexually small and the country is right this minute being led, morally speaking,
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
It's all part of the same thing.
Many parents just don't want to take the time, effort, trouble to discipline and teach their children - to show them real love. Real love means raising them properly. If a parent's idea of real life means instant gratification, he or she won't want to take time out from their own personal enjoyment to deal with kids the way they need.
"Robert Bork was wrong. 'Slouching' towards Gomorrah?
Sprinting towards Sodom is more like it."
My thoughts exactly.
I was gonna say Elizabeth Taylor (will husband no. 8 please step up...).
As someone trying to raise two kids in this culture, it ain't easy.
I was just in the local Target this evening. On the shelf, there was a "Sims" videogame. The cover showed adults kissing and my kids were drawn to that like moths to a flame.
I hate this culture.
What night do they give away the FannyPacks at the Ballpark?
I'm on the same page.
Agreed.
Keep in mind that the average life expectancy of a homosexual man is 42 years and they have a 99% mortality rate by age 60 so you may not have long to wait in either case.
It's not as though I wish ill on him. He's doing a good job of condemning himself already.
He actually sounds like a ghost talking. I predict he's not long for this world.
"It's when it is on the tube in the so-called "family hour" or stuck in your face in a hundred inappropriate ways that is the problem."
I don't think anyone here is trying to argue for more Janet Jackson style exhibitionism. Or trying to say porn spam is a good thing.
Gah! Forget I said anything, I just re-read the article.
Agreement here. TV is, at BEST, a thief of time, and that is all the currency any of us have. And we have no idea how much we have to spend, either.
And TV is at worst, a brain and heart defiler.
And AFAIK it's usually both.
I have had a TV for about 1 or 2 years total in the last - hmmm, since I was an adult.
Put me on your ping list, please. Thanks.
"grinning open-thighed progress"
Am I the only one a little confused with the visual behind this phrase?
Then I must be a total pervert.
Do you want the Moral Absolutes Pinglist or the Homosexual Agenda Pinglist? They overlap occasionally but I try to keep them separate.
The M.A. has a wider scope, H.A. keeps to the one topic.
MA please. And I agree with you about TV. My boss always asks me if I saw this or that TV show. I always say no. You'd think he'd have learned by now, but he keeps asking. All we watch is the animal shows, the history channel and the weather channel (of all things). Oh, and my husband is currently watching OU play Colorado.
I like the weather channel. Now if only they had hour long shows about tornadoes. Yum!
But since I don't have a TV, I just have to read books, play music, work, and do other stuff like converse with mrs lj for entertainment!
Oh, and train the cats.
Every once in awhile, they do have half-hour long shows about tornadoes. My middle son, Max, is autistic--tornadoes are one of his obsessions...hence the weather channel. Why do you like tornadoes?
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