Oh good. I almost edited the mormon part out, but I really am proud of who I am, and I promise I won't bring it up all the time. I may make a few side comments about it, but I'll keep it to a minimum. ;)
In Australia we have a chocolate-flavoured drink called Milo. It's basically Ovaltine, except that it tastes GOOD instead of BAD. We have a tradition.. you bite both ends off a Tim Tam, and use it as a straw to suck up Milo, then quickly stuff the whole thing in your mouth at the exact moment it has a huge sloppy chocolatey meltdown implosion. Okay stop drooling, that's gross. :P
You said you don't want controversy, so i'll apologise in advance if i'm offending you, but i can't understand how you could claim respect for other's beliefs and be anti-gay marriage. Even though i'm pro-choice, i see that there are valid points on the other side, but i cannot see a valid point to continued illegalisation of a love contract. I've only heard 2 arguments: religion, and 'traditonal family'. 1) our nation is secular 2) abuse and divorce is universal despite orientation.
again, i'm sorry if i brought an unwelcome controversy to your otherwise a-political channel, but this is a subject near and dear to me because my sister is a lesbian and i'm transgender, and i don't want to live in a country where she couldn't hold her partner's hand during birth or advise a doctor as to whether or not to continue life support on said partner. This transcends personal ethics, it's about human rights.
I completely understand your point of view, and I don't mind that you brought it up. My reply to doggydog56789's comment below (I think) expounds on how I feel about it. I completely support those people as people, but not as homosexuals or whatever. I know it sounds sort of hypocritical, but humans were not made to be compatible with the same gender. I believe that it is a very unnatural thing and that people who indulge in that behavior have some sort of imbalance in their life. (continuing)
I really hope that I'm not offending you, but I have not as yet found any credible evidence that homosexuality is the direct result of chemical imbalances or whatever. I personally do not believe that it is 'part of who a person is.' I think that many times, people have a very slight confusion, usually in their teenage years, about their alignment (I know I did) and decide to act on it and find that by people's reactions, good or bad, they find a niche that they can fill. (continuing again)
And that is ultimately everyone's desire in life, to find a place where they're secure. To know how to act and what's expected of them. So these poor confused teenagers just go with it, for better or worse. It doesn't matter what people think about them, because they know what is expected of them and that makes them happy. I'm sure that you're probably boiling mad at me by now, and I'm sorry. I just wanted to put my thoughts out there, and you did open it up to me. I hope you're not too offended
(In case you're not seeing the relevance of this argument, it was a rebuttle to your statement that by not supporting gay marriage, I don't believe in respecting people's beliefs (basically). I just wanted to clarify that this whole rant is just me saying that I don't believe that homosexuality is a belief or even a natural compulsion. I think it's a choice to be gay.) I'll shut up now...
I'm not offended, fred phelps is offensive; your responses aren't, they're profoundly disheartening. You're obviously a person of intelligence and open arms, but these views show an uncharacteristic lack of understanding. Biologists have observed hundreds of species engaging in homosexual behavior, so it's obviously natural in some sense, and the fact that many long-term homosexual relationships have continued in to old age gives at least some counter-ballence to the 'teen phase' idea.
I can't speak for you and won't try to, but if you genuinely find yourself romantically attracted to women, it seems to me that it would be in your interest to persue those attractions because, lord knows, what ALL of us need in our lives is more love. As for my own experience, i have a strange and unique perspective. I'm M to F transgender, and there's never been any question that i'm attracted to women, i've been chasing girls since i was 2 years old, but i've also always had an intrensic
feeling my emotional being was female. I asked my parents about gender change as early as 9, and i almost always played female characters in "let's pretend" games. No matter how old i got, i was never comfortable with my birth gender, and, finally, after spending my entire life trying to pretend otherwise, i started telling family and close friends at 18. My experience is unique because it's simultaneously gay and straight, and there is no denying what is true whether or not i can understand it
Even if it is a choice, it's your choice to be Mormon, and i wouldn't dare insinuate that you shouldn't be allowed to practice something you deeply believe and has a positive effect on your life no matter how much i, as an agnostic, may disagree with it. That's the beauty of free society: room for god and atheisim, room for love between hetero and homosexual couples.
Just ftr, I don't think it's just a 'teen phase'. I didn't explain that very well. I think it may start out that way, but after a certain point it just becomes routine and people start accepting it as 'the way they are'. And I've heard of gay tendencies only in primates, not any other species. Maybe I just haven't researched it enough. And, concerning your comment that I should pursue female relationships if I found myself genuinely attracted, I never did. Not genuinely. And that is (continue)
one of the big problems that I see with people who start the path of homosexuality is that they get confused between loving someone and being in love with someone. They see someone of their same gender whom they care deeply about and start to analyze the relationship too much and get confused and begin to think that the feelings they have for the other person are romantic instead of platonic. Also, I appreciate you bringing up the fact that it's my choice to be mormon. (continued)
I hadn't thought about it like that and it's an interesting point. I will definitely have to look into that aspect a little more. I'm not going to change my views, now or in the future. My religion dictates that homosexuality is a sin and therefore I do not support it, no matter what evidence there is for or against it. I get a lot of criticism because of my 'blind faith' but it is something that I feel is a gift and I'm proud of it, even if it makes me seem like an irrational person sometimes.
If you're straight, that's good for you because it means your life will be exponentially easier than those of us in the LGBT community who struggle with ourselves, or peers, our families, and our government from cradle to grave. The reason law must be secular is that religion isn't rational. It's not rational to drink wine as Christ's blood, to pray 5 times a day, or give up something for lint, but law shoudln't dictate any of those things as mandatory, nor should it dictate the legality of love
One of the things that makes me agnostic is that i don't even have enough faith to declare myself atheist, so i'm skeptical of even skepticism, but i respect your faith, and, in some ways, envy the ability to definitively believe there is or isn't a god rather than wracking my brain over uncertainties. It's not rationality i ask of you or anyone else in your position, it's compassion. Even if you consider homosexuality sinful, it's, at the very least, victimless sin.
I would like to point out that the mormon faith doesn't do any of those things. We don't drink wine for our sacrament, or at all and we don't practice lent. We are told to pray all the time, but there is not set time to do it. I don't want to sound all preachy, but as far as I know, there is a rational explanation for all of our beliefs, even if I can't tell you all of them. And it appalls me how unaccepting society as a whole is of the GLBT community. It makes me sad to see (continued)
how hard society makes the lives of those people. I wish that we were more accepting because its awful to see what people do to other people just because of something like this. It sickens me to think that there are people being beat up and shot and killed for something so innocuous. No one should have to deal with that ever. Not for being gay or for having certain beliefs. Nothing should illicit that kind of behavior. Just because I have a boyfriend doesnt mean that I should be safer that you.
Regardless of particular traditions, Mormonism has its own rituals (like the magic underwear people so often giggle about), and i'm sure you understand what i'm getting at. It's very good that you're able to look beyond your personal beliefs enough to see the suffering, and i hope, someday, you find it in yourself to go from empathy to advocacy "He that would make his own liberty secure must gaurd his enemy from oppression." Thomas Paine (excuse the gender specificity, he didn't know any better)
Ha ha thanks man this is awesome! You think I am cool... he he... In the end it will hopefully help a bunch of people so my vanity will have to wait for the few weeks it takes to grow back! Thanks for the donation too...
No worries! And why shouldn't I think you're cool? You're one of the awesomest people I (sorta) know. Very few of my friends would do what you're doing, and I'm copping out as it is with my little bitty donation (I'm a poor college student though, what can I say?) but I know that even that helps. I just really respect you for doing this. You're amazing.
pft! at least I dont have to worry about gaining ten hundered pounds. It would take like 20 bags of those apple crisp things to compare to a tim tam. *giggle* how do you like them apples?
I'm glad you're looking forward to my fish vid! I'm still having trouble with figuring out how to put music on it, but hopefully I'll have it figured out and put up in the next week or so.
i am for gay marraige because im not religous so it doesnt matter to me and i think it is taking freedom away from the country if gay people cant get married.
I completely understand that point of view, and I think it's a very good argument for it. However, because of the way I've been brought up and what I believe, I don't support it. That doesn't mean that I don't like gay people. I've had a couple really great friends who are gay. I totally support them in being who they are, I just don't support any action on whatever feelings they have. I also don't believe that there is any genetic or chemical reasoning behind being gay, just identity confusion.
Merendipity said: 'whatever feelings they have'. How can you really be their friend if you don't believe what they feel is about love, simply real love?
(Besides, how can you not believe it's real, just identity confusion? I, for instance, am certainly not confused by that. Discovering how men are so hot, lovely, ect. is probably the best thing that ever happened to me. When I see cute guys or think about the person I love (but doesn't love me :'( ), I really feel much better..., alive.)
Why do I have to believe their love is real in order to be their friend? I have lots of friends who tell me they're in love with someone and I don't believe them either. I know it's not real, that it won't last. And most of the time, I'm right. Does this mean that I can't be their friend? No, of course not. So I don't understand why you think I have to believe that your 'love' is real in order to be your friend. That doesn't make sense. And in any case, that's not what I meant when I said that.
Yeah, you're right about that... but I don't know, the 'whatever feelings they have' makes me feel like you don't understand it and don't want to. In some way, you seem to deny that it just exists. That's not very nice to them, or to all of us.
I'm not really trying to be nice. I'm not trying to be mean either, I'm just trying to be realistic. It's just really improbable that any of my friends at their age (between 15 and 19) would find someone that they truly love. I also find it highly improbable that a person would actually fall in love with someone they could never have children with. That is the ultimate goal of any living being, to make more of itself. I believe that homosexuality is unnatural and that (continued)
it is not possible for real love to exist between people of the same sex. I'm sorry if that offends you, but it's what I believe. I believe that anyone who thinks of themselves as a homosexual has serious psychological problems and needs help. Does that mean that I'm going to shun you, or tell you outright that what you're doing is wrong? No, that would be rather irrational. But if I get asked about it, I'm going to give my opinion and tell you to get help.
So what's wrong with big boobs? hahahaha lol
banjomartin88 3 years ago
Nothing, I just wanted to make sure people knew that was not an accurate representation of what they really looked like. ;)
Merendipity 3 years ago
Oh ok. Sounds good to me. LOL
banjomartin88 3 years ago
Do they have Tim Tams in America now? Or did someone send you Tim Tams?
juliayay 4 years ago
Unfortunately no. My sister just came home from a trip to Australia and she brought them home for me. I wish we had them here.
Merendipity 4 years ago
Ah man, you had me all excited and I was like- "tim tams? in america- sweet!"- but then you shot me down... *sigh*
btw, great video- stick to your beliefs :D
squirrelygurl 4 years ago
Hi ya - I'm still a subscriber :-)
timoconnor3082 4 years ago
Oh good. I almost edited the mormon part out, but I really am proud of who I am, and I promise I won't bring it up all the time. I may make a few side comments about it, but I'll keep it to a minimum. ;)
Merendipity 4 years ago
In Australia we have a chocolate-flavoured drink called Milo. It's basically Ovaltine, except that it tastes GOOD instead of BAD. We have a tradition.. you bite both ends off a Tim Tam, and use it as a straw to suck up Milo, then quickly stuff the whole thing in your mouth at the exact moment it has a huge sloppy chocolatey meltdown implosion. Okay stop drooling, that's gross. :P
kylarsk 4 years ago
I love doing that! Obviously I can't do it with Milo, but hot chocolate works well enough. Go Tim-Tam slam!
Merendipity 4 years ago
You said you don't want controversy, so i'll apologise in advance if i'm offending you, but i can't understand how you could claim respect for other's beliefs and be anti-gay marriage. Even though i'm pro-choice, i see that there are valid points on the other side, but i cannot see a valid point to continued illegalisation of a love contract. I've only heard 2 arguments: religion, and 'traditonal family'. 1) our nation is secular 2) abuse and divorce is universal despite orientation.
DamNationDiplomat 4 years ago
again, i'm sorry if i brought an unwelcome controversy to your otherwise a-political channel, but this is a subject near and dear to me because my sister is a lesbian and i'm transgender, and i don't want to live in a country where she couldn't hold her partner's hand during birth or advise a doctor as to whether or not to continue life support on said partner. This transcends personal ethics, it's about human rights.
DamNationDiplomat 4 years ago
I completely understand your point of view, and I don't mind that you brought it up. My reply to doggydog56789's comment below (I think) expounds on how I feel about it. I completely support those people as people, but not as homosexuals or whatever. I know it sounds sort of hypocritical, but humans were not made to be compatible with the same gender. I believe that it is a very unnatural thing and that people who indulge in that behavior have some sort of imbalance in their life. (continuing)
Merendipity 4 years ago
I really hope that I'm not offending you, but I have not as yet found any credible evidence that homosexuality is the direct result of chemical imbalances or whatever. I personally do not believe that it is 'part of who a person is.' I think that many times, people have a very slight confusion, usually in their teenage years, about their alignment (I know I did) and decide to act on it and find that by people's reactions, good or bad, they find a niche that they can fill. (continuing again)
Merendipity 4 years ago
And that is ultimately everyone's desire in life, to find a place where they're secure. To know how to act and what's expected of them. So these poor confused teenagers just go with it, for better or worse. It doesn't matter what people think about them, because they know what is expected of them and that makes them happy. I'm sure that you're probably boiling mad at me by now, and I'm sorry. I just wanted to put my thoughts out there, and you did open it up to me. I hope you're not too offended
Merendipity 4 years ago
(In case you're not seeing the relevance of this argument, it was a rebuttle to your statement that by not supporting gay marriage, I don't believe in respecting people's beliefs (basically). I just wanted to clarify that this whole rant is just me saying that I don't believe that homosexuality is a belief or even a natural compulsion. I think it's a choice to be gay.) I'll shut up now...
Merendipity 4 years ago
I'm not offended, fred phelps is offensive; your responses aren't, they're profoundly disheartening. You're obviously a person of intelligence and open arms, but these views show an uncharacteristic lack of understanding. Biologists have observed hundreds of species engaging in homosexual behavior, so it's obviously natural in some sense, and the fact that many long-term homosexual relationships have continued in to old age gives at least some counter-ballence to the 'teen phase' idea.
DamNationDiplomat 4 years ago
I can't speak for you and won't try to, but if you genuinely find yourself romantically attracted to women, it seems to me that it would be in your interest to persue those attractions because, lord knows, what ALL of us need in our lives is more love. As for my own experience, i have a strange and unique perspective. I'm M to F transgender, and there's never been any question that i'm attracted to women, i've been chasing girls since i was 2 years old, but i've also always had an intrensic
DamNationDiplomat 4 years ago
feeling my emotional being was female. I asked my parents about gender change as early as 9, and i almost always played female characters in "let's pretend" games. No matter how old i got, i was never comfortable with my birth gender, and, finally, after spending my entire life trying to pretend otherwise, i started telling family and close friends at 18. My experience is unique because it's simultaneously gay and straight, and there is no denying what is true whether or not i can understand it
DamNationDiplomat 4 years ago
Even if it is a choice, it's your choice to be Mormon, and i wouldn't dare insinuate that you shouldn't be allowed to practice something you deeply believe and has a positive effect on your life no matter how much i, as an agnostic, may disagree with it. That's the beauty of free society: room for god and atheisim, room for love between hetero and homosexual couples.
DamNationDiplomat 4 years ago
Just ftr, I don't think it's just a 'teen phase'. I didn't explain that very well. I think it may start out that way, but after a certain point it just becomes routine and people start accepting it as 'the way they are'. And I've heard of gay tendencies only in primates, not any other species. Maybe I just haven't researched it enough. And, concerning your comment that I should pursue female relationships if I found myself genuinely attracted, I never did. Not genuinely. And that is (continue)
Merendipity 4 years ago
one of the big problems that I see with people who start the path of homosexuality is that they get confused between loving someone and being in love with someone. They see someone of their same gender whom they care deeply about and start to analyze the relationship too much and get confused and begin to think that the feelings they have for the other person are romantic instead of platonic. Also, I appreciate you bringing up the fact that it's my choice to be mormon. (continued)
Merendipity 4 years ago
I hadn't thought about it like that and it's an interesting point. I will definitely have to look into that aspect a little more. I'm not going to change my views, now or in the future. My religion dictates that homosexuality is a sin and therefore I do not support it, no matter what evidence there is for or against it. I get a lot of criticism because of my 'blind faith' but it is something that I feel is a gift and I'm proud of it, even if it makes me seem like an irrational person sometimes.
Merendipity 4 years ago
If you're straight, that's good for you because it means your life will be exponentially easier than those of us in the LGBT community who struggle with ourselves, or peers, our families, and our government from cradle to grave. The reason law must be secular is that religion isn't rational. It's not rational to drink wine as Christ's blood, to pray 5 times a day, or give up something for lint, but law shoudln't dictate any of those things as mandatory, nor should it dictate the legality of love
DamNationDiplomat 4 years ago
One of the things that makes me agnostic is that i don't even have enough faith to declare myself atheist, so i'm skeptical of even skepticism, but i respect your faith, and, in some ways, envy the ability to definitively believe there is or isn't a god rather than wracking my brain over uncertainties. It's not rationality i ask of you or anyone else in your position, it's compassion. Even if you consider homosexuality sinful, it's, at the very least, victimless sin.
DamNationDiplomat 4 years ago
I would like to point out that the mormon faith doesn't do any of those things. We don't drink wine for our sacrament, or at all and we don't practice lent. We are told to pray all the time, but there is not set time to do it. I don't want to sound all preachy, but as far as I know, there is a rational explanation for all of our beliefs, even if I can't tell you all of them. And it appalls me how unaccepting society as a whole is of the GLBT community. It makes me sad to see (continued)
Merendipity 4 years ago
how hard society makes the lives of those people. I wish that we were more accepting because its awful to see what people do to other people just because of something like this. It sickens me to think that there are people being beat up and shot and killed for something so innocuous. No one should have to deal with that ever. Not for being gay or for having certain beliefs. Nothing should illicit that kind of behavior. Just because I have a boyfriend doesnt mean that I should be safer that you.
Merendipity 4 years ago
Regardless of particular traditions, Mormonism has its own rituals (like the magic underwear people so often giggle about), and i'm sure you understand what i'm getting at. It's very good that you're able to look beyond your personal beliefs enough to see the suffering, and i hope, someday, you find it in yourself to go from empathy to advocacy "He that would make his own liberty secure must gaurd his enemy from oppression." Thomas Paine (excuse the gender specificity, he didn't know any better)
DamNationDiplomat 4 years ago
Ha ha thanks man this is awesome! You think I am cool... he he... In the end it will hopefully help a bunch of people so my vanity will have to wait for the few weeks it takes to grow back! Thanks for the donation too...
Hughsnews 4 years ago
No worries! And why shouldn't I think you're cool? You're one of the awesomest people I (sorta) know. Very few of my friends would do what you're doing, and I'm copping out as it is with my little bitty donation (I'm a poor college student though, what can I say?) but I know that even that helps. I just really respect you for doing this. You're amazing.
Merendipity 4 years ago
I already made a vid of eating stuff. whore lol
ItsWednesday 4 years ago
Yes, but you weren't eating the food of the gods, were you? No. You weren't. Ho
Merendipity 4 years ago
pft! at least I dont have to worry about gaining ten hundered pounds. It would take like 20 bags of those apple crisp things to compare to a tim tam. *giggle* how do you like them apples?
ItsWednesday 4 years ago
thats so true, everyone should be able to believe whatever they feel. it may not be rite in another persons views, but they are still entitled to it.
...|||cant wait for the fishy vid|||...
i could really go for a timtam rite now...mmm
AndySmiirnoff 4 years ago
I'm glad you're looking forward to my fish vid! I'm still having trouble with figuring out how to put music on it, but hopefully I'll have it figured out and put up in the next week or so.
Merendipity 4 years ago
7th comment!
dearmy1 4 years ago
i respect your views but heres mine.
i am for gay marraige because im not religous so it doesnt matter to me and i think it is taking freedom away from the country if gay people cant get married.
doggydog56789 4 years ago
I completely understand that point of view, and I think it's a very good argument for it. However, because of the way I've been brought up and what I believe, I don't support it. That doesn't mean that I don't like gay people. I've had a couple really great friends who are gay. I totally support them in being who they are, I just don't support any action on whatever feelings they have. I also don't believe that there is any genetic or chemical reasoning behind being gay, just identity confusion.
Merendipity 4 years ago
yeah
i understand you too.
whatever people believe its because of how they are raised.
see, i used to think that tooo, but i didnt choose to like girls. i just do. btw im a guy. lol
i think its a little gross, but taking away their freedom like that is wrong to me. and i think this country should be 100% free
doggydog56789 4 years ago
Merendipity said: 'whatever feelings they have'. How can you really be their friend if you don't believe what they feel is about love, simply real love?
(Besides, how can you not believe it's real, just identity confusion? I, for instance, am certainly not confused by that. Discovering how men are so hot, lovely, ect. is probably the best thing that ever happened to me. When I see cute guys or think about the person I love (but doesn't love me :'( ), I really feel much better..., alive.)
DraGonflY27z 4 years ago
Why do I have to believe their love is real in order to be their friend? I have lots of friends who tell me they're in love with someone and I don't believe them either. I know it's not real, that it won't last. And most of the time, I'm right. Does this mean that I can't be their friend? No, of course not. So I don't understand why you think I have to believe that your 'love' is real in order to be your friend. That doesn't make sense. And in any case, that's not what I meant when I said that.
Merendipity 4 years ago
Well, I mean, it's not very nice...
Yeah, you're right about that... but I don't know, the 'whatever feelings they have' makes me feel like you don't understand it and don't want to. In some way, you seem to deny that it just exists. That's not very nice to them, or to all of us.
DraGonflY27z 4 years ago
I'm not really trying to be nice. I'm not trying to be mean either, I'm just trying to be realistic. It's just really improbable that any of my friends at their age (between 15 and 19) would find someone that they truly love. I also find it highly improbable that a person would actually fall in love with someone they could never have children with. That is the ultimate goal of any living being, to make more of itself. I believe that homosexuality is unnatural and that (continued)
Merendipity 4 years ago
it is not possible for real love to exist between people of the same sex. I'm sorry if that offends you, but it's what I believe. I believe that anyone who thinks of themselves as a homosexual has serious psychological problems and needs help. Does that mean that I'm going to shun you, or tell you outright that what you're doing is wrong? No, that would be rather irrational. But if I get asked about it, I'm going to give my opinion and tell you to get help.
Merendipity 4 years ago
So that's why I get manboobs whenever I record something with mine.
UnidentifiedRob 4 years ago
lmao...the way you described the presidential candidates...priceless...
As for the way you view opinions I completely understand...people don't need to put others beliefs and what not down to describe theirs.
As for your boobs...I didn't even notice till I read the description box...lol
thepervnextdoor 4 years ago
Yes IM THE ST VEIW AND THE ST COMMENT!!! OWNED YOUTUBE LOL XD
buggy13copyrighted 4 years ago
ha ha you weren't I was
qcrossley 4 years ago
i was supost to be damn it lol
buggy13copyrighted 4 years ago
yeah I posted the same message twice because of some youtube mess up. They weren't posting at first
qcrossley 4 years ago
Keep on Truckin' (as if you would ever stop)
qcrossley 4 years ago