08-23-2016, 01:05 AM
(08-20-2016, 02:34 AM)Chandlersdad Wrote:(08-20-2016, 01:26 AM)Billy Wrote:(08-20-2016, 12:24 AM)Chandlersdad Wrote:(08-19-2016, 10:14 PM)Billy Wrote: For sure, the process by which ones comes to prefer a color is not as complex as having a preference for a sexual orientation. I don't think it at all trivializes something if you see it as 'just a preference' but instead validates it. I don't see a preference as something you just randomly decide one day for fun, but something which builds up over time after much experience. In that sense you could say that preferences are the ways in which we express our current configuration. Who knows why we have the preferences we do? There are probably so many factors that it would be close to impossible to come up with something substantial.
You seem to have zero empathy for the nature of most homosexual men, which is that they realize quite young that they are sexually different from other boys and that this can cause great anguish. Perhaps you are bi-sexual (as we define it, not as Ra defines it) so that learning over a long period that you prefer men was not more than a mere preference. I am sure that teenagers are not killing themselves over being gay simply because they realized over time with experience that they had a preference for the same sex. It was their sexual orientation. No buts, no caveats, no decisions to make.
Where did I say it was a 'mere preference'? I think maybe you have misunderstood the way in which I am using the word preference. I consider my sexual orientation a preference. I don't personally find that offensive or think it in any way diminishes it. I think that our preferences are quite heavily ingrained in us and we have little choice with them, at least that has been my experience. I'm also not dismissing the discrimination that homosexual people experience, I don't see where you got that from. Yes, many people are discriminated against for their preferences, I am in no way denying that.
I am sorry that you felt attacked. I did not intend to do that. But I've been around a long time (in my 60s) and I see the subtle influence of the words used (often by our enemies) to describe homosexuality. My favorite is "a life style CHOICE". In other words, we don't have an innate sexual orientation, we have made a choice. Of course, they consider it a bad choice, like deciding to rob a bank or murder someone. I am just a stickler for words. I was a technical writer for many years. To me, I can see someone easily equating "preference" to "choice", which is a loaded word for the Christian right who must believe that gay men choose to be gay, thus making it a sin. I was just making an abstruse point. Don't worry about it. I was being picky.
Hello! I'm late to the party, too, but I see others have been helping you to understand how mistakes in understanding occur. If you would like a more modern interpretation of the Law of One, I suggest you read The Aaron/Q'uo Dialogues, which is available in the L/L Research online store. Q'uo is a social memory complex that formed when Ra merged with another SMC after Don's death and Aaron is an entity who discovered Barbara Brodsky and began channelling through her. Both of those entities expound on their interpretations of the LOO and have a great time interacting with the humans present during the channelling sessions. My understanding leads me to believe we incarnate in a very specific form, gay/straight/trans, fat/thin, beautiful/ugly, rich/poor, etc., for the purpose of experiencing life in that form, either for lessening karmic debt (as I have) or to learn some lesson that we could not otherwise understand (as I hope to do). In that aspect, being gay IS a choice- one we made before incarnating! It is not a right or wrong choice, but merely a characteristic of the entity we become. I have been attracted to both genders all my life, my oldest child is the same, and my youngest child feels she is a man who was born into a woman's body. I do not judge, but only try to help people seek the lessons they desire to learn. I have also listened to Scott Mandelker a little- his take on the LOO did not resonate with me at all! I get the impression that he wants to do to Ra's teachings what Emperor Constantine did to Christ's teachings- build it up into a huge money-making and population-controlling scam! We won't let that happen, will we? I wish you Love and Light in your journey!