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you gotta be kidding me right?
According to others it all to do with your life and early development.
I personally beleive that its abit of both... I can't see how sexuality could be genetic only, as, when we are born we have only the basic ideas and we don't really know that much about the world, and we are taught about stuff. And early things such as play with freinds and so forth develops our view of the world. But it could easily have a gene that leave you open for other things whilst not determining precisley your sexuality. Hence this would leave it open to the possiblity of hetrosexual, homosexual, or bisexual, and depnding on how your upbringing shapes out, its who you are.
There are also those folks who now seem to think bisexual is fashionable... could this affect anything?
but not everyone believes in a God, so how can a bad thing be thinking you're higher than God, also, we don't need a 2000 year old book to tell us how to behave and what is moral or not, we get that thorugh interaction with each other, i know hitting a child on the head with a brick is wrong because it's likely to kill him, not because Jesus told everyone to treat their neighobur like themselves....
Homosexuality (in my opinion of course) has all kinds of causes. Some people are more genetically prone towards it, others have it as a character trait, others are gay because of sexual abuse, and still others are gay on a casual basis. In the end who really cares?
Oh dear Committing the naturalistic fallacy there. Precisely the reason why evolutionary psychology is a pretty useless method for understanding human behaviour.
SO...IMHO, sexual orientation is the result of choice.The problem with that statement is the choice in question(as many others influencing human behaviour) is not a conscious one.That is why most gay, bi people become offended when they hear that.I understand that but they should also understand that becoming offended by other people's opinions on the matter reveals a lot about the way they really feel about their sexual orientation.
Now with regards to that choice...well, I believe we all have a soul, a soul that evolves thru thousands of lifetimes here and on other planets...As we go along, we accrue karma(both ''good'' & ''bad'') or if you don't like that k word, you can say we gain many different experiences...In order to balance things out or be able to embrace the whole spectrum of the human experience, I feel the soul chooses to put itself thru the experience of homosexuality.
Moreover, the soul may have decided that it will challenge this choice(in this case homosexuality) at a certain point in its lifetime.In other instances, the soul may decide the complerte opposite.If it chooses the first scenario, then that person will either be confused about their homosexuality, go into therapy about it or attract a lot of people in their lives will will challenge his lifestyle...Eventually, they may even fall in love with a person of the opposite sex and ''settle down'' as straight.
In the case of the second scenario, the person will just accept and be comfortable with his sex life and just live life peacefully without much aggravation related to their homosexuality.People with that soul contract are usually people who are in a committed relationship with a person of the same sex and steer clear from the often superficial and ''trendy'' mainstream gay scene.
Also, sometimes a really advanced soul may incarnate as a homosexual to teach people around it some valuable life/love lessons(tolerance, acceptance, respect, freedom of expression etc).
The whole point about hormonal differences and even intersex individuals is also interesting in the sense that people with those characteristics have made a very powererful decision on the soul level...maybe I can elaborate on this point later-duty calls now!
I don't believe in a soul, so all that just comes across as patronising nonsense.
I think that it is patronizing when you expect everyone else to consider your way of thinking as the absolute truth, while you're not willing to do the same for others, or even consider their point of view.
Blaggy, I think its so sad to dismiss interesting ideas as - quote - "patronising nonsense", when someone who is not a regular contributor goes to the trouble of expounding a contrary but fascinating view.
An open mind is a wonderful thing .....
Eh? I was very careful to say that "I don't..." and "it comes across as..." not "souls don't exist" and "it is patronising...".
Careful with that open mind...yer brain fell out. You're assuming that I have come to my conclusions without a great deal of thought.
You are equating homosexuality to the use of recreational drugs?
My only objection is the male homosexual act of buggery, that I find an abomination and a sin against God.
And that goes for everyone else, he refuses to answer a question, don't just keep repeating it or this thread will be closed.
So as long as they just gave each other oral it would be totally ok?
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/15129.htm
In a bid to get better understanding from the Bible's textures, in a few years gay people will be able to marry. But this doesn't make gay people ok to have sex, because buggery is a sin right? So in actualy fact it would make no difference whether they are married or not? And does it just include buggery or does it condone any sexual act? Just intruiged.