Once again Brother Richard joins me as we trek from the depths of dumb to the shining peaks of awesome.
First of all, just don’t go to the website that I mention during this podcast. If you do, make sure there are no children around. Seriously. The show title is a hint as to why.
During our news segment: reasons why I’d kick a Muslim person off a bus, what Jesus and firearms have in common, Fahrenheit four-fifty-dumb (ZING!) a moral leader of the church tries a new angle on his litle “kid rape” problem. Also–the Church still maintains that even after being blamed for 1000’s of child abuse cases, they are still #1 when it comes to educating your child, Orthodox Jew’s figure out something new that they can do with their mouth, and gay people, pay attention: we cover the absolute worst way to endear yourself to the general public.
Seriously though, don’t go to that website. It will only end in tears.
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Lemon Party? Dammit Joe… I had to show my wife. Now she’s mad at me.
But seriously, how’d you find that?
Gavagai, I did the same thing. I also have emailed it to my little brother pretending it was something else. I think this is how Joe got it too. Sick puppies like Joe (and me and you), send this type of stuff around more than anyone else.
Hi, guys, just got here from somewhere else, and listened to your podcast. Great show, I really like the topics you cover, and it’s been quite nice finding out how much more sane voices there are around the world willing to step away from religion (yeah, you can tell I’m a recent “convert”…lol)!
Anyway, there’s one thing I strongly disagree with you, Joe - You said that, scientifically, homosexuality is not normal but there’s nothing wrong about being abnormal. Actually, that’s wrong, there’s much evidence out there that homosexuality’s as normal a trait as heterosexuality. Just this week there’s been a study that says that homosexual behaviour is found across the board on every kind of animal species, and that it appears to be a multitude of bilogical, evolutionary reason for that.
Anyway, great show, and you’ve got yourself another subscriber!
Best,
J.
lemonparty? I want to cry, but I can’t… It’s horrible… I don’t know what’s worst… the lemonparty, or the other subject matter of your speech. Well, actually I do, the children suffered more, but seriously, I need a self help group after that.
-Josh
James:
Thank you for pointing that out. You are absolutely correct. I should have chosen my words more carefully. There are several ways one could take my usage of the word “normal” in this case. I only used it because I was commenting on the term “heteronormative,” otherwise I probably would have chosen “majority” or “typical,” as I was not attempting to use “normal” as a synonym for “natural.”
I also didn’t frame my objection to Bash Back!’s reasoning concerning marriage and other “heteronormative” institutions. Even though I am also not naturally much of a monogamist, I realize that being in a relationship with one other person is not only “heteronormal,” but just plain old normal. It is typical. While it is perfectly natural for people of both sexes and of every sexual identification to feel disinclined toward a monogamous lifestyle, Bash Back!’s attempt to paint marriage and committed relationships as something “bad” because of their “hetero roots” is simply childish and shallow. It will also server to alienate members of their own organization who are monogamous.
Thanks again for pointing that out and thanks for listening to the show!
Joshua:
I told you not to go! hahah
Interesting parsing of words there! I suppose if one engages in hetero or homo sex it could be either a preference or a given choice to do so. Maybe one could switch on alternating nights or as the mood or desire for one or the other gender overcomes the person. No matter the sexual orientation the individual can exercise an overriding Choice to engage in sex with males or females at any given time or with both at the same time or opt for the safest sex of all which is solo-sex.
An aside- Can Solo-Sex be described as homosexual activity. If you are a man who is wanking yourself or flexible enough to perform oral sex upon yourself then you are undoubtedly playing with or sucking a mans penis which in polite company is often regarded as quite a Gay thing to do. Are women and men who masturbate all gay then, and does that make them hetheronormative or merely hetheroflexible?!
Perhaps we could describe Theists as religionormative. Then again since the majority of life on the planet (including insects, trees, birds, bacteria, fishes, grasses, and most mammals are Atheist (lacking a belief in gods) then I suppose the Theists could be regarded as a curious abnormality, and we Atheists as better fitting in with the natural norm of the planet.
I’m bored and I have time to kill and I’d love to respond to your trolling, but this one doesn’t even make any sense for the first two paragraphs.
In the third paragraph, you fallaciously compare religion with sexual orientation.
You can do better than this! C-
Perhaps it would have been more accurate for you to have said that it doesn’t make any sense to “you”, as indeed it may not to some others, but it does make sense to those who can make sense of it. Notwithstanding that, since there is no major point to be made by it, everyone is free to dismiss it as empty rhetoric. The foregoing paragraphs just go to prove the maxim that just as with Pod-Casting just because someone Can do it doesn’t necessarily mean they should do it.
Lemonparty! ARGHHH! I got duckrolled and I should’ve known better after seeing the link on 4chan-/b/.
Anyway, keep up the good work. I’m working through your old eps to get up to date.
P.s.
What was that “young adult novel” called that the old coots threw a hissy fit about?