07-17-2016, 04:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2016, 12:49 AM by Chandlersdad.)
I am gay and fit all the criteria of a Wanderer. When I read what Ra had to say on this, I burst out laughing. RA has admitted that "it" is not omniscient. In this matter, I think Ra is quite silly. I was raised on a farm in the midwest, and I knew I was gay by the time I was 9 years old. For Ra to suggest that homosexuality has anything to do with "urban influence or crowding" is ludicrous. It is innate. In fact, recent medical science suggests that in many cases a homosexual son is born to a woman who is nearing menupause. The womb "soup" of chemicals differs from that of a younger robust woman.
Perhaps the entity incarnating choses homosexuality as a catalyst to pry its identification away from the mainstream social and religious dogma of the time period. I tend to see this as why I am gay. Being gay in this historical period has been a first-hand experience in the arbitrary rules and stigmas attached to certain human behaviors. I have learned how irrational many of those rules are, being based on fear, superstition and even the need for a social scapegoat.
As a gay man, my focus has always been on LOVE, not sex. I have been in one monogamous marriage relationship for 39 years!! My husband/partner had a 6 year old daughter when we met. We raised her together and she has turned out to be an amazing tolerant kind compassionate human being, also seeing through the nonsense that marks much of human cultural rules.
Trust me. I have lived 64 years, and know that what the great and powerful Ra had to say on homosexuality may be linked more to what Carla thought, since all information must pass through the filter of her mind. I immediately thought of early studies on rat communities, where the male rats would resort to homosexuality when over crowded. Pray tell, is THIS where Ra got his bizarre notion that homosexuality was a product of overcrowding in large urban centers? Did Carla naively think that homosexuality only happens in large cities? Frankly, this entire embarrassing subsecton of a session illustrates the fragility of the information when applied to a subject I know all about from life experience. The only reason a lot of gay men have congregated in great cities is for mutual support and safefty, since small town America is not too kind to noncomformists of all types.
People. RA is NOT omniscient. The books relate one failure by the Confederation after another in contacts with Earth. They seem at times naive and ignorant. While there is great value to the information, gay people do NOT need yet another metaphysical reason to feel bad about themselves. Your acceptance of Ra's absurd proclamation on this issue may say a lot more about your lack of empathy and lack of information about the gay people living around you (often still in secret) than it does about homosexuality.
Perhaps the entity incarnating choses homosexuality as a catalyst to pry its identification away from the mainstream social and religious dogma of the time period. I tend to see this as why I am gay. Being gay in this historical period has been a first-hand experience in the arbitrary rules and stigmas attached to certain human behaviors. I have learned how irrational many of those rules are, being based on fear, superstition and even the need for a social scapegoat.
As a gay man, my focus has always been on LOVE, not sex. I have been in one monogamous marriage relationship for 39 years!! My husband/partner had a 6 year old daughter when we met. We raised her together and she has turned out to be an amazing tolerant kind compassionate human being, also seeing through the nonsense that marks much of human cultural rules.
Trust me. I have lived 64 years, and know that what the great and powerful Ra had to say on homosexuality may be linked more to what Carla thought, since all information must pass through the filter of her mind. I immediately thought of early studies on rat communities, where the male rats would resort to homosexuality when over crowded. Pray tell, is THIS where Ra got his bizarre notion that homosexuality was a product of overcrowding in large urban centers? Did Carla naively think that homosexuality only happens in large cities? Frankly, this entire embarrassing subsecton of a session illustrates the fragility of the information when applied to a subject I know all about from life experience. The only reason a lot of gay men have congregated in great cities is for mutual support and safefty, since small town America is not too kind to noncomformists of all types.
People. RA is NOT omniscient. The books relate one failure by the Confederation after another in contacts with Earth. They seem at times naive and ignorant. While there is great value to the information, gay people do NOT need yet another metaphysical reason to feel bad about themselves. Your acceptance of Ra's absurd proclamation on this issue may say a lot more about your lack of empathy and lack of information about the gay people living around you (often still in secret) than it does about homosexuality.