To My Followers and Fellow Readers - This Is Important, And I Have A Simple Request For All Of You · 12:08am Mar 17th, 2018
Right, this isn't something I wanted to write just because I feel drunk enough to do it, plainly because I'm not drunk or under any form of influence, but I've met some people in my time, and let me tell you - some of them just make me upset to be around. I'm not one for speaking most of the time, but when it comes to this, I certainly don't ignore it.
As some of you may know if you've followed me long enough, I simply accept people for who they are and where they come from. A part of the reason that I do this is because I can easily emphasise and sympathise with those who have experienced things similar to me in my own lifetime.
Now, to get to the point, although I can respect some beliefs out there, yet not all within certain reasons, I have one simple request to make to all of you out there that might be reading this blog at this given moment - If you are in any way prejudice to someone's inheritance, race, sexuality or their choice of lifestyle in a way that you strongly disagree with that makes them feel alienated, my request is that you simply click that unfollow button on my profile.
Sorry to say it, but still, I don't really want anything to do with any of that stuff. So, if that's you and you know it's you, just please do me that one favour. That is all I ask of you.
This isn't something I'm writing to be a stereotype 'soap box speaker', but rather as a person that wants to voice his opinions based upon actual facts. I mean, we are all human here, are we not? Technically, that makes us somewhat related, so if you're someone that hates on, disapproves on and/or possibly attacks someone else, I'm afraid that I don't want any association with it. Given my viewpoint, I don't have any reason to alienate others in that way because I know how it feels. Some of the things I've been accused of and called in previous years have had such a negative impact on my life that it put me in a spot that made me unable to hate against certain people.
It's a horrible, horrible feeling, so I wish not to be a part of a society that follows up with those beliefs of alienating because they might be homosexual, bi or foreign. If you can understand this well enough to get the point that I, as an individual, stand up for the rights of others and accept them as they come, then you might also be willing to see it my way.
We don't need prejudice in this world for all the wrong reasons, so if you have something to say, speak up and be heard.
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Not all of them, to be honest. It's when it gets too out of hand that I have a problem with it. What I mean is when it includes underage characters and things in that general area.
That's basically what I was getting at. If it's not involving children in sexual acts, then it's not something that bothers me entirely. Let's just say I've read some quite disturbing things in the time I've been here.
I understand, my friend, but I must ask what your definition of "prejudice" is. Because if you mean disapproval of a lifestyle, then I'm afraid no one in the entire world will be able to honestly answer that they aren't guilty of such a thing. Lifestyles conflict often in violent ways, and usually through no more fault than the simple fact that one or both sides feel threatened by the other, or that there is a lack of understanding as to why people choose to believe what they do.
I, as a Christian, both do not and cannot support the LGBT lifestyle. But that doesn't mean that I dislike or don't support the human beings that are a part of it. As you said, we are all human, and it is incredibly rare for me to genuinely hate any living person. I am often accused of prejudice simply because of my beliefs, as are many others of varying beliefs simply because they do not support a certain lifestyle.
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As far as I can tell, most people just want to have equal rights, no matter if they are straight or part of LGBT, and some religion groups try to deny them those rights claiming that they are doing ‘immoral’ things.
So, if you don’t mind me asking, what exactly does it mean to support of such lifestyle - in that context?
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Thank you for asking me that.
Equal rights are indeed important to keep the peace sometimes, and due to my admitted inexperience in the realm of politics: I'm afraid that I'd be no good at debating the true effects of such things. However I'd guess that it is a good thing since it lets people know that the country they live in still considers them valuable as individuals, even if it can be misguided at times.
To answer your question, though, I can only offer that which I know. I'd say that supporting a lifestyle is commonly defined as saying, showing or implying that you agree with most- if not all -of the individual's choices in their morality, and that sometimes you'll let them get away with certain behaviors that are ultimately destructive to their mental, physical, and emotional growth. It can often get to the point where even constructive criticism or questioning offered without any hostility intended is used to demonize those who dare to publicly disagree and plant their feet where they stand, since it seems a lot people are so used to the "support" that they don't know how to handle such things, and therefore tend to be as closed-minded to reason as the people they are responding to.
As such, and due to the innumerable different lifestyles that humanity has developed over the millennia, as well as the fact that many people from all ends refuse to budge even an inch in their beliefs: conflict and hostile disagreement are ultimately and entirely inevitable, and people end up crying "prejudice" even when no such injustice is truly committed just because they feel threatened. Several people from all beliefs and lifestyles have been guilty of all of the aforementioned throughout history, and thus (whether unintentionally or by cruel choice) both were and are pawns to the confusion, hostility and chaos that plagues most discussions about worldview to this day. Hell, I too have regretfully played a part in making the rifts worse, and still can when placed in the wrong situation...
... how'd this soapbox get here?
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I… think I don’t understand what you meant – that sounded like if you were not sure if all people (or groups of people) should have equal rights, and/or that the only reason they should is to keep them from protesting (keep ‘peace and quiet’)…? Also: “even if it can be misguided at times” – you mean misguided like in ‘they do not follow the teachings of the church’ misguided?
OK thanks, for the explanation.
I don’t know what country you are from, but I asked this because I’m from Poland, also a Christian and it sickens me that some people over here, effectively blocks rights of the minorities using the ‘we do not support LGBT lifestyle’ phrasing.
Just to give a few examples:
Now, don’t get me wrong – I have strong opinions about some of the stuff LGBT movement propose, but for me, the above are the examples of fundamental human rights. I can’t stand that some people over here deny those rights, only because they do not approve of other people lifestyle (usually, using the religion as the excuse) - I just hope you are not one of those.
The rest of what you said is about a little disease called the PC (Political Correctness) that is affecting most western countries nowadays (limiting the freedom of speech in the process). In that regard, I think we are in complete agreement (personally, I believe that PC is the biggest threat to the civilization, since Nazism – but let’s leave it at that).
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By 'prejudice', I'm simply referring to another person's disapproval/hate or non-support of another person's life choices or what they do in life, be that if it's either making them feel ashamed for who they are or making them feel like they are in the wrong while the one accusing them is in the right.
To me, I absolutely hate the idea of people picking on each other because of their different beliefs. It's pretty much one of the biggest issues in the world that make it so that we all can't get along peacefully. I mean, racism, homophobia, alienating others, it's just horrible.
Honestly, Amethyst, if you, despite your religion or any beliefs you might have, were to be that person being accused, how would you feel about it? The reason that I'm accepting of people for who they are is because I know all too well how it feels because people have actually tried to murder me because of what I stand for and what I look like as a person. I've been criticised in every way you can imagine because I was only being me, and the reason for that is because I didn't follow the 'morally correct' lifestyle of many others in the world, and as such, they saw me as the one in the wrong.
What makes me laugh sometimes is that they keep tossing these accusations at other people and making them feel ashamed of who they are when they think that their religion, belief, etc is the right path to choose. Truthfully, that's bullshit. You can live your own life as you please and do what you want with yourself. If I could have one simple and coherent explanation as to why someone else thinks their beliefs and such are the 'correct' ones to follow, I'd like to hear it.
(No, this isn't hostility, by the way. Freedom of speech. Oh, and yeah, I'm never one to care about politics, so nobody is alone there!)
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Apologies, I suffer from poor wording, and I'm not sure how I can word that any better. As I said, I can only offer what I know for sure.
I hold no disagreement with you here. Denying basic human rights is a poor choice.
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How would it feel?
More like how does it feel. Christians are a group that have always been victims to just as much prejudice as they are accused of casting out to others. I've been laughed at, scoffed at, shouted at, physically and vocally abused. I've been called homophobic, a victim of Stockholm Syndrome, hypocritical, everything under the sun. Hell, even members of my own family think of me as a degenerate, or a brainless child. Granted, a few of those aren't directly related to my beliefs, but all are because of me trying to be who I am.
Anywho, I just woke up. I'll be back later.
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Seems like we both have quite a similar understanding with our experiences. See, I can very easily emphasise with you, and because of that, that allows me to know just how it feels, and this is what I have to deal with every day - constant packed-up anger, the want to scream and punch/break something, disinterest in going anywhere with my family because I always seem to be the target of choice for some reason, and many people in my life, which is just about everyone, have done nothing but treat my presence with disrespect and disregard for how their words hurt or affect me.
The one thing that disgusts me is that Dad is someone that I know is homophobic and doesn't support LGBT choices or lifestyle, and the reason for that is that I don't agree with him on that one, and I, as a human, don't actually know my own sexuality (why do you think my OC is a female?), as daft as that may sound at my age. I always think that if I were actually gay, everyone I've ever known will instant despise me, and I do and don't really care about that fact on a half-and-half scale because everyone is always going to judge you, me or anyone else for something.
I'm not one for religion or anything, but believe me, even if I might disagree (face it, everyone disagrees with everyone on one fact or another), I seriously don't think any less of you as a person. It's not in me to find hate or complete dislike for another human being.