Monday, December 7, 2015
Via my buddy RG on FB: Bias
"I’ve observed girly ticks in straight men who were otherwise highly masculine. And I’ve met heterosexual men who were quite a bit more effeminate than many homos. Yet these effeminate heteros rarely have their manhood called into question, by sheer virtue of their heterosexuality. All of these men are routinely given the benefit of the doubt—their effeminate behaviors dismissed as mere quirks of character. Admit homosexuality, however, and every momentary lapse in machismo is regarded as a sure sign of a womanly nature.
While the objective reality seems to be that masculinity varies from male to male, almost regardless of sexuality, subjective realities based on public and private perceptions have dramatically influenced what it means to be an adult male who loves men. People assign meaning to sexual desire, including their own, and this meaning plays a role in shaping their personalities and dictates who and what they believe they can be."
- Jack Donovan
Via Towleroad / FB: Ted Cruz Promises to Fight Gay Rights in Phone Call With Right Wing Extremists: LISTEN
In a phone call last week with anti-gay right wing extremists, Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz vowed he would fight against gay rights.
The call was organized by E.W. Jackson, a failed GOP nominee for the post of Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor, and anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera.
LaBarbera asked Cruz about “the gay agenda”, specifically what he would do to “reverse and neutralize the Obergefell decision of the Supreme Court”, “end Obama’s policy of actually flying the rainbow flag at U.S. embassies worldwide”, and halt “the Equality Act, which I’m calling the Homosexual Superiority Act, in Congress.”
Cruz first addressed the question about the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage, comparing it to the Court’s ruling on abortion in Roe v. Wade, as Right Wing Watch points out:
“It is the decision reminiscent of Roe v. Wade
of a handful of unelected judges arrogantly and lawlessly decreeing the
authority to fundamentally change our country and to tear down the
foundations of the country,” Cruz added.
He also criticized Republicans who decided to “surrender” to the Supreme Court and treat Obergefell as the “settled law of the land.”
“My response to this decision was that it
was illegitimate, it was lawless, it was utterly contrary to the
Constitution and that we should fight to defend marriage on every
front,” he said, before promoting constitutional amendments to overturn
the ruling and put justices up for retention elections, along with
legislation “to strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over challenges
to marriage.”
On LGBT rights as they pertain to military service, Cruz remarked that he was “just hearing terrible things” about the military being “beset with these new LGBT rules”:
“You look at the military and one of the
things we’ve seen is morale in the military under the Obama
administration has plummeted, and it has plummeted because you have a
commander-in-chief that doesn’t support our soldiers and sailors and
airmen and marines, you have a commander-in-chief that doesn’t stand up
against our enemies, that won’t even acknowledge or say the words
‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and you have a commander-in-chief that
treats the military as a cauldron for social experimentation. He’s more
interested in promoting homosexuality in the military than he is in
defeating our enemy.
For example, the military is now focused
on trying to promote transgendered [sic] soldiers. The role of the
military is not to be some left-wing social experiment. The reason we
have the brave men and women who sign up as service men and women to
defend this nation is to stand for our values, to protect our safety and
security, to protect innocent men and women and to stand up and defeat
our enemies, and I would stop the shameless politicizing of our military
to push a left-wing agenda that is contrary to the values and contrary
to who we are as an American people and a nation founded on
Judeo-Christian values.”
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day 07/12/2015
“As distorções dos princípios vitais feminino e masculino, que se
manifestam como agressividade e submissão, nascem da necessidade de
retirar energia do outro. Energia significa amor – essa é a energia que
alimenta o universo. O desamor é o que gera as distorções. Assim, a
entidade humana, movida pelo desamor, passa a vida tentando conquistar o
amor, mas tudo o que ela consegue é gerar mais desamor. O submisso gera
mais ódio no agressivo porque ativa
nele a violência do masculino distorcido; e o agressivo ativa ainda mais
a submissão do feminino distorcido. Esse é o núcleo da guerra neste
planeta.”
“Las distorsiones
de los principios vitales femenino y masculino, que se manifiestan como
agresividad y sumisión, nacen de la necesidad de retirar energía del
otro. Energía significa amor - esta es la energía que alimenta al
universo. El desamor es lo que genera distorsiones. Así, la entidad
humana, movida por el desamor, se pasa la vida tratando de conquistar el
amor, pero todo lo que consigue es generar más desamor. El sumiso
genera más odio en el agresivo, porque activa en él la violencia del
masculino distorsionado; y el agresivo activa aun más la sumisión del
femenino distorsionado. Este es el núcleo de la guerra en este planeta.”
"The distorted masculine and feminine principles manifest as aggression and submission, and are born from the need to take energy from the other. Energy is love, and this energy feeds the Universe. A lack of love is what creates distortions. Thus, human beings moved by the lack of love spend their lives trying to get that love, but all they generate is more absence of love. A submissive person generates more hatred in an aggressive person because they activate the violence of the distorted masculine.In turn, an aggressive person activates even more submission of the distorted feminine. This is the nucleus of warfare on our planet."
"The distorted masculine and feminine principles manifest as aggression and submission, and are born from the need to take energy from the other. Energy is love, and this energy feeds the Universe. A lack of love is what creates distortions. Thus, human beings moved by the lack of love spend their lives trying to get that love, but all they generate is more absence of love. A submissive person generates more hatred in an aggressive person because they activate the violence of the distorted masculine.In turn, an aggressive person activates even more submission of the distorted feminine. This is the nucleus of warfare on our planet."
Today's Daily Dharma: All There Is
All There Is
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Sunday, December 6, 2015
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day 06/12/2015
“A verdade é muito simples. A complexidade existe porque tentamos fugir
da verdade. A mentira é muito complexa. Ela é a mais sutil e menos
óbvia matriz do eu inferior. Ela se manifesta como autoengano – o
autoengano da falsa ideia de eu. O sofrimento está sentado em cima da
mentira, enquanto a verdade é a base para a alegria.”
“La verdad es muy simple. La complejidad existe porque intentamos huir de la verdad. La mentira es muy compleja. Es la más sutil y menos obvia matriz del yo inferior. Se manifiesta como autoengaño - el auto-engaño de la falsa idea de yo. El sufrimiento está sentado arriba de la mentira, mientras que la verdad es la base de la alegría.”
“La verdad es muy simple. La complejidad existe porque intentamos huir de la verdad. La mentira es muy compleja. Es la más sutil y menos obvia matriz del yo inferior. Se manifiesta como autoengaño - el auto-engaño de la falsa idea de yo. El sufrimiento está sentado arriba de la mentira, mientras que la verdad es la base de la alegría.”
"The truth is very simple. Things become complicated when we try to
escape the truth. Lies are very complex. Deceit is the most subtle and
least obvious matrix of the lower self. Lies manifest as self-deception,
which is the false idea of the self. Suffering comes from lies, whereas
the truth is the foundation for joy."
Today's Daily Dharma: The Consequence of Forgetfulness
The Consequence of Forgetfulness
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Today's Daily Dharma: Brave Enough to Be Unsure
Brave Enough to Be Unsure
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Friday, December 4, 2015
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day
“Liberdade significa não estar preso a absolutamente nada. Somente
quando não está preso a nada é que você pode sustentar o êxtase, a
alegria sem causa, o contentamento perene que não se abala com nada.”
“Libertad significa no estar atado a absolutamente nada. Solamente cuando no estás atado a nada es que puedes sustentar el éxtasis, la alegría sin causa, el contentamiento perenne que no se quiebra por nada.”
“Libertad significa no estar atado a absolutamente nada. Solamente cuando no estás atado a nada es que puedes sustentar el éxtasis, la alegría sin causa, el contentamiento perenne que no se quiebra por nada.”
"Freedom means not being
tied to absolutely anything. Only when one is no longer attached to
anything can one sustain ecstasy, joy without cause and an enduring
contentment that nothing can deter."
Today's Daily Dharma: Of Benefit to All
Of Benefit to All
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