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Since the islamic revolution in 1979, over 4000 men women and youths have been flogged to death or otherwise executed for the 'crime of homosexuality' in Iran. They have need of a very secret society. Makes our persecution seem very mild don't you think?
I wore penny loafers, brothel creepers, pink trousers, oatmeal jackets that reached halfway down my thighs with very long lapels... but not the pink carnation.

The bit that troubles me about christian easter is the idea of scapegoats. If it is ok for the christian god to murder an innocent bloke for the sins of others, can i nominate an innocent fellow to go to jail for me when i do wrong?

I have never understood why people give surprise parties. One of the greatest joys, if not the only joy, in life is looking forward to something... this is what gives life meaning and purpose. So, instead of having the pleasure of anticipating seeing all his children and grand children for several weeks in advance... that has been denied. All he'll get is a shock and a feeling of disappointment that he didn't know, wasn't better dressed and hadn't prepared something for them too. Because if guests are coming you spend hours of pleasurable time working out what to say, where to take them, what to show them - perhaps even making a small gift and then preparing carefully a speech... when it is thrust upon you there's no time and afterwards the depression descends and you say to yourself... "Why didn't i say that to ... I should have thanked... And then there's the sadness in the days before hand, thinking no one has remembered or cares. My mother gave me a surprise party when i was 12. I didn't want it and didn't like the kids she'd invited, so I left her to it and spent the day alone at the beach. If anyone gave me a surprise party now, I would want to shoot them.

I used to like and play basketball in the 60's when we wore shorts so short they barely covered our butts. Somehow, watching those lanky guys race around in floppy baggies down to their knees seems an affront to the beauty of healthy human bodies. And isn't it time they raised the basket? Most of the players can simply reach up and drop it in now.

I believe those 4000 deaths are only those that actually happened in Iraq... Soldiers who die in hospitals in Germany and back home are not counted in those statistics. Far worse are the tens of thousands of wounded. The dead suffer no more, the wounded suffer till they die.
Surely it is time for both our countries to re-name our military to "Departments of Attack". Because we too have never had to defend ourselves, we're always out there attacking with Uncle Sam.

It is interesting to speculate on the consequences of this. A culture that has endured for millennia in a pretty hostile world, will probably not survive drastic changes to the hierarchy. I spent some time with Bedouin's in southern Jordan half a century ago. They seemed to me to be the most hospitable and wisest people I have ever encountered. "Nature is god; thought is prayer" was a common maxim and to me a revelation that makes absolute sense. As for the restrictions on girls, it has become a problem only because they now see what the rest of the world is like. The old saying; when ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise, is true, and the new knowledge will cause many heartaches and no more 'happiness' than they used to have.

Oh, the Christian god is not one whit less vindictive than Yahweh - he's the same one, after all, but in the Old Testament he's even more vengeful and cruel than in the Torah according to what I've read. And of course he's the same god Muslims worship... It's interesting how myths diverge over the centuries.

I think it's only the USA that puts month, day year, instead of the logical day, month year... If I'd realised you were Scorpio I'd have been more respectful... sting in the tail and all that. i read that what we call extra sensory perceptions are probably our unconscious sifting through all the sensory inputs we've had, that results in a 'revelation' type occurrence... and because we don't know where the idea came from, we imagine it is from somewhere outside ourselves.
My bell-bottoms were so wide they covered my shoes completely and beads!!! all thatglittering glass. Them were the days.

A male #####? He-haw!
A male prostitute? A substitute.

Mmmmm.... pisces.... that's perhaps why it all seems a bit fishy.... and a girl friend at 67? you're old enough now to have a lady-friend.

Shame about losing the land, gardens and house... Hope you're ok in that department now. I too would like to have the body and energy of the 70's, but not the ignorance... i like being mentally 67.

In Australia, for every murder there are about a thousand bashings, some leaving victims crippled for life. I expect it is the same in the USA. Religion is the basis of all homophobia, so while gays continue to support christianity, they must accept part of the blame. If I stick a noose around mt neck and stand on a stool, then someone kicks the stool away, am I not really the author of my own misfortune?

Another study revealed that most of those extra seven years are spent virtually ga-ga in a nursing home waiting to die. [I sometimes wonder if I was born under a wet blanket.]

I read it took off as a public description by us queers mainly to annoy hets by taking a common word and making it impossible for them to use.

That's excellent recovery for the battered tree.
there's more greenery than i expected in fort La La.