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Started by ACSlater, April 04, 2009, 07:02:32 PM

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karadan

Quote from: "ACSlater"I really do appreciate everyone being as supportive as they have been to me on this forum. A lot of what I read depending on the subject really motivates me to think deeper and just expand on what I've learned in the past. If nothing else, just hearing from positive people and sharing knowledge with each other is just a large part of the human experience I love most.

Speaking of sharing knowledge, I love to cook, so I need to start a thread of why my orange chicken dish rocks harder than a restaurant's. (Uh oh, there's that sin of pride rearing its head. Hahaha)

Cheers everyone.

That's the spirit! ;)
QuoteI find it mistifying that in this age of information, some people still deny the scientific history of our existence.

ACSlater

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Quote from: "ACSlater"I really do appreciate everyone being as supportive as they have been to me on this forum. A lot of what I read depending on the subject really motivates me to think deeper and just expand on what I've learned in the past. If nothing else, just hearing from positive people and sharing knowledge with each other is just a large part of the human experience I love most.

Speaking of sharing knowledge, I love to cook, so I need to start a thread of why my orange chicken dish rocks harder than a restaurant's. (Uh oh, there's that sin of pride rearing its head. Hahaha)

Cheers everyone.

That's the spirit! ;)

Oh, I will definitely share my recipe. Well, I must use that term "recipe" rather loosely because I just add amounts of everything by instinct and taste. I actually have to make it again soon because I was going to write it down and get the amounts listed. What I love most about that dish is that it's not a sticky, syrupy type of dish, it has a thinner yet bold sauce that employs as many fresh ingredients as possible. So, let me know when you get your thread started because I'm ALWAYS looking for things to cook.

Hitsumei

Yes, bigots are definitely the worst. I still confess to having never completely gotten over having people tell me whom it is and isn't appropriate for me to have an intimate relationship with, and whom I can and cannot marry -- and most of all, what I can and can't call a family.

I have moved past it a great deal, and have become desensitized to it, but I do think that it is important to be angered by it. It is important to stay furious, to keep your blood boiling. Not really because of a single event, or the fact that it has happened to me, or people I care about, but because the world is this way. We need change, and social progression. We need to fight, work, and strive until such opinions cannot be espoused -- save within the fringes of society -- without a healthy, and needed expression of dissent, and scorn.

The largest barrier to societal progression is the apathetic, and the complacent, not the bigots, nor the opposition. It is those that become at peace with their situation, as opposed to demanding more, and requiring that things change.

I too have become largely complacent over the years, we've gained so much in such a short time that it is hard to not be pleased, and thankful for what I, and people like me have achieved. It isn't enough though, not nearly enough, and although I am lucky to live in a place like Canada, one of the places we have gained the most headway, there is still much, much more to be done.

Bigotry in all of its repugnant manifestations needs to be squelched, and becoming at peace with it, will not achieve this.
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." ~Timothy Leary
"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution." ~Bertrand Russell
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ACSlater

Quote from: "Hitsumei"Yes, bigots are definitely the worst. I still confess to having never completely gotten over having people tell me whom it is and isn't appropriate for me to have an intimate relationship with, and whom I can and cannot marry -- and most of all, what I can and can't call a family.

I have moved past it a great deal, and have become desensitized to it, but I do think that it is important to be angered by it. It is important to stay furious, to keep your blood boiling. Not really because of a single event, or the fact that it has happened to me, or people I care about, but because the world is this way. We need change, and social progression. We need to fight, work, and strive until such opinions cannot be espoused -- save within the fringes of society -- without a healthy, and needed expression of dissent, and scorn.

The largest barrier to societal progression is the apathetic, and the complacent, not the bigots, nor the opposition. It is those that become at peace with their situation, as opposed to demanding more, and requiring that things change.

I too have become largely complacent over the years, we've gained so much in such a short time that it is hard to not be pleased, and thankful for what I, and people like me have achieved. It isn't enough though, not nearly enough, and although I am lucky to live in a place like Canada, one of the places we have gained the most headway, there is still much, much more to be done.

Bigotry in all of its repugnant manifestations needs to be squelched, and becoming at peace with it, will not achieve this.

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I agree with what you're saying, the anger I was feeling at the time was not going to help anything progress for the better of society; it was wild and unfocused. I'm glad I was able to grow away from that, but it does still upset me that there is still that type of bigotry that makes me think we haven't progressed at all here. Sure, there has been SOME improvement, but there is still so much to get past. It will take more people willing to see that change become a reality; we're out there, but maybe we're not loud enough to be heard...YET.