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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

I don't agree with the sun. That bitch can fuck right off.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 points 2 minutes ago

Friggin’ hot tho 🥵 🥵 🥵

[–] Zink@programming.dev 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

My experience being born into religious conservative white america is that phrases like "I don't believe in" or "I don't agree with" are just the politically correct language and/or dog whistle for "I hate that shit but I need to act polite."

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 points 47 minutes ago

I have (RCWA) family members who, in their words, "don't believe in Halloween". Halloween being a holiday celebrated in many countries and one that happens every year, which is all over the media, with products in nearly every store, and even shows up on most typical calendars in this country.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 8 points 3 hours ago

Make mountains gay again.

(I’m loving this post/comment section too much)

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

One time, my dad, fully serious, said to me that homosexuality didn't exist in nature outside of humans.

It was like finding out that you have a below average penis.

My stomach dropped in shame when I was so starkly faced with the mental faculties of one of my biological guardians I had been raised by. Was I staring at my limit?

What about those other kids, whose parents are educated and empathetic and who will ask real probing questions and can answer them? Will my facilities slow to a crawl soon, to keep pace with my genetic fate?

Are these fears so average that I should bow my head in the river, afraid to even express them, lest I be confronted by the entire history of humanity?

Maybe biological nature isn't everything, maybe fate isn't real and change is truly in our hands, ready to be molded, potentially even into chaos.

"Better stupid than dead", huh? It's staring right back at me, blankly, waiting for me.

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

One time, my dad, fully serious, said to me that homosexuality didn't exist in nature outside of humans.

Would just be like "Neither does fucking Bud Light dumbass!"

[–] hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 hours ago

Fortunately for you, while there's definitely some genetic component to it, it's definitely not the only factor by any means. I've known some very intelligent people who believe some very dumb shit.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

By writing this comment I think you’ve already got your answer. You seem very eloquent and you’ve got a mind that’s not afraid to go places. Don’t worry, you’ll be just fine.

[–] espurr@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

My dad is a flat earther

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 37 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

When the people who disagree with mountains turn out to be mountains themselves it becomes downright hilarious.

[–] cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 hours ago

They can't see the mountain range with all the mountains or something

[–] lumettaria@sopuli.xyz 24 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This half assed analogy is cracking me up

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 7 points 6 hours ago

Trying to watch my calories so it’s only half ones for a while.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 hours ago

These gay mountains are so gay.

[–] Retail4068@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They are absolute morons. 

That being said you have to be a moron yourself to not be able to understand that it's the ethics (yes morons, I know) of gay they reference.

Don't be as dumb as them.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Oh shit, new Gay Lore just dropped! What are the Ethics of Gay?

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 62 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Long time ago, group of friends and I were eating late night food at a diner. Talking about lots of stuff and one of them turned to the topic of homosexuality as one of our friends just came out.

Only other customer in the room was a lady reading a book. When we spoke of homosexuality she simply mumbled, "I don't believe in that." and we said, "... What?" she says, "I don't believe that homosexuality is a real thing."

Gay bro pipes up and says he's a living breathing example. They got into it for a bit and it was so long ago that I don't remember how it went. I think she left out of frustration.

Weird times.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

As an aside, there is really something magical about late night diners. Something timeless and almost invigorating about how mundane and dreamlike those experiences always are.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 32 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Even just the notion of butting into a conversation with that, wtf. Must've felt it was her chance to proselytise.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

The People who "don't believe in homosexuality" are usually the same type of entitled assholes to insert themselves into other people's conversations.

Excellent point

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 45 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, me and my wife are still married. No amount of random bystander disagreement will change that.

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I disagree! You don't exist therefore are not married!

[–] Klear@quokk.au 2 points 1 hour ago

You don’t exist therefore are not married!

The lesser known principle of Descartes.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours ago

Partnership is a very grassroots thing. It predates modern humans, and it will persist long after. An organization that fails to recognize self-defined partnerships is self defeating. I might as well argue that my own feet don't exist.

[–] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

You think there's always been gay people? Even in ancient Greece? Sure, let's just pretend all those hairy daddy bears weren't wrestling each other for totally heterosexual reasons.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 13 points 5 hours ago

When everyone was gay... noone was

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nah those were just roommates..

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

People are stupid

Now, religious people are a special breed of stupid.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They choose to believe in things they know aren't true, and they call it faith.

And that's how they think everyone else comes to their own conclusions about reality as well. They think we're taking the existence of homosexuality on faith, which is why they think they're making some kind of point when they say they don't believe in that.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Like a demented orobouros. I've found that many people project themselves upon the world, in order to explain it. As I've grown up, I've wanted to say that that has lessened, but it absolutely doesn't seem to have done anything but gotten clearer and more obvious. Maybe that, itself, is me projecting.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 9 points 8 hours ago

I believe that for a person to have unshakeable faith in objective reality, even despite all of the scientific and philosophical evidence and logic against it, speaks to an unnaturally feeble state of mind which has been cultivated in our society by the rich and powerful as a means of control. Human beings are not naturally so willfully ignorant; it must be trained from a young age.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 4 points 9 hours ago

Actually, homosexuality is a social construct and is not objective. In Ancient Greece and Rome, there was no homosexuality. Men having sex with men was considered quite normal, personal preference or attraction didn't come into it. But for a man to take it in the butt from his social inferior was taboo in the same way homosexuality has been in much of the modern age. It was considered a deviant and unusual preference, much like being gay.