Why Are Leftists/Apostates Obsessed with Masturbation?

[_Buffalo]

In reply to the "Did the bishop ever ask you if you masturbate" poll, I thought a more thorough and timely poll would be apropos.

Why are the General Authorities obsessed with masturbation?

[_Buffalo]

By the way Droopy, a quick lesson on your vs you're and its vs it's:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

[_brade]

I didn't realize that Mark Peterson, Boyd Packer, and Vaughn Featherstone were leftist apostates. I learn something new every day.

If I recall correctly, Packer is, or has been, a registered democrat. I don't know if that alone qualifies him as a leftist apostate. Droopy?

[_Tarski]

by the way, I couldn't vote "form submitted was invalid'.

Me either. I haven't been able to vote in a poll since the recently "upgrade".

Is anyone doing anything about the technical crap going wrong around hear (there is also still an issue with avatars).

[_Droopy]

And here I thought all the masturbation talk was quietly dropping off and then someone starts another thread about it. Is this another pot calling the kettle black?

Perhaps it was...until Rambo and sockpuppet re-initiated it.

[_Runtu]

Perhaps it was...until Rambo and sockpuppet re-initiated it.

I'd say we're far less obsessed with masturbation than you are about certain political topics. Do people at AA meetings complain that people there are obsessed with alcohol?

When you've been damaged by something, it's natural to talk about it once in a while, particularly when you know you are with others who have been damaged by the same thing.

[_Droopy]

1. Because after leaving the CoJCoLDS they realize how completely bizarre all this seems to those who do not know their former religion from the inside. Personally, I was particularly astonished to hear that if my daughter had been brought up LDS, she might in her early teens have been in a room alone with an adult male authority figure who asked her what she did with herself in her privacy. Yuk.

Yes, standard, formatted, Oprahfied, pop psychological bosh. All adult male authority figures are incipient sexual predators of children and latent rapists. Since all conceivable human sexual expression is possible, all conceivable human sexual expression is acceptable. What is psychologically/physiologically possible (natural) has, looking no farther than at what human beings can conceive and do, no moral qualities or implications.

Standard sexual revolution ideology left over from the era of Kinsey and Hefner.

2. Because they know it will annoy TBMs, who will often try to deny that it ever happened, deny that the complainant was ever LDS, and so on, only to be contradicted by LDS on the board in good standing who themselves think that these interrogations are out of order.

In LDS theology, masturbation, as with all sexual expression outside of the boundaries of lawful marriage, is an impediment to the purification and sanctification of the soul that is required for our salvation and exaltation. It is a barrier to our ultimate happiness and the fulfilling of our potential. Hence, it is a feature of any interview between a ecclesiastical leader and anyone within the range of their authority, especially when worthiness for church callings, priesthood ordination, or Temple worship is in question.

Get over it.

This has, so far as I can see, nothing to do with their political affiliations.

Masturbation? No, of course not. The incessant preoccupation across the culture, in literature, film, music, art, academic discourse, and message, board discussion of eroticism per se, and of the "natural" and hence morally/spiritually neutral practice of masturbation over the last 40 or so years, is a central and foundational feature of the cultural Left, however.

Indeed, without the sexual revolution, all that would have remained for the Left was drugs, Marx, and the youth revolution (which had exhausted itself by about 1974 and settled into the obsession with youth and youth attitudes that now dominates much of the pop culture) and without the rise of the drug culture, the sexual revolution might have had a much longer and incremental rise to cultural dominance.

[_Droopy]

I'd say we're far less obsessed with masturbation than you are about certain political topics. Do people at AA meetings complain that people there are obsessed with alcohol?

I"m not "obsessed" with anything. I have core concerns with I think need a great deal of discussion, debate, and fleshing out.

When you've been damaged by something, it's natural to talk about it once in a while, particularly when you know you are with others who have been damaged by the same thing.

Oh pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeese...

In the name of Oprah, Maury, and the Sally Jesse, amen.

[_Droopy]

by the way, I couldn't vote "form submitted was invalid'.

Me either. I haven't been able to vote in a poll since the recently "upgrade".

Is anyone doing anything about the technical crap going wrong around hear (there is also still an issue with avatars).

They've left mine alone. Everything seems to be going OK since the permanent bannings were repealed.

[_Droopy]

If I recall correctly, Packer is, or has been, a registered democrat. I don't know if that alone qualifies him as a leftist apostate. Droopy?

I'd like to see a list of the programs, policies, and political philosophy of the contemporary Democrat party to which he subscribes.

I vote Republican, but have held my nose a long time to do so, and am not registered. Its preferable to the alternative, but not far preferable, and my voting is not indicative of support for much of what the Republican establishment represents.