Why Are Leftists/Apostates Obsessed with Masturbation?

[_Runtu]

Its also, based upon long observation of Darth's posts and the attitudes, beliefs, and perspectives expressed therein, true, which is doubtless why it grates on you so.

The problem here is that you directed your comments to me, not to Darth. You made an unwarranted assertion about what the church teaches about sexuality, and then when I called you on it, you agreed with me and then started dumping on me about my evil intent, my poor character, etc.

As I said, I don't mind if you think I'm a swine, but at least own up to it. I try very hard to be civil, but apparently, that's too much to ask of you.

[_Droopy]

You made an unwarranted assertion about what the church teaches about sexuality,

And what "unwarranted" assertion was that?

and then when I called you on it, you agreed with me and then started dumping on me about my evil intent, my poor character, etc.

Did I? I said I was not in the habit of casting pearls before swine. That's all I said.

As I said, I don't mind if you think I'm a swine, but at least own up to it. I try very hard to be civil, but apparently, that's too much to ask of you.

You don't understand the use of the term "swine" in the sense of that biblical verse, do you? Well I won't go into that now, as that would be casting...oh, never mind.

In any case, your long history of passive aggression against both the Church and those who defend it has been long noted. You try hard to be civil? Well, yes, on one level...

[_Droopy]

In any case, the entire poll was a joke poll intended to spray high pressure cold water on the hornet's nest, and it had the intended effect. Darth and John have not turned it into a personal slugfest, so I'm out.

[_Darth J]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju3h7yk4Hcg

[_EAllusion]

In any case, the entire poll was a joke poll intended to spray high pressure cold water on the hornet's nest, and it had the intended effect. Darth and John have not turned it into a personal slugfest, so I'm out.

I believe this qualifies as Argument #1 in this list of saddest internet argument techniques:

http://www.cracked.com/funny-3809-inter ... echniques/

[_Darth J]

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.

"Right-wing extremism depends on two ingredients--nostalgia for a storybook past and the conjuring up of a scapegoat whom you blame for desecrating that paradise."

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-11-27/ ... t-gingrich

[_Runtu]

And what "unwarranted" assertion was that?

You suggested that abstinence and fidelity were the sum total of the church's teachings on sexuality. Thus, it stands to reason that there's something wrong with those of us who find the church's teachings damaging.

Did I? I said I was not in the habit of casting pearls before swine. That's all I said.

Yup, you did say that. You also said that I wallow (there's that swine reference again) in self-serving grandeur, but in reality I am no more than an immature high school student.

You don't understand the use of the term "swine" in the sense of that biblical verse, do you? Well I won't go into that now, as that would be casting...oh, never mind.

Yes, Loran, I understand the use in the Bible. I suppose what I found odd was the combination of the extended metaphor (which you used about as subtly as a ball-peen hammer) and your retreat from the position you staked out. As I said, you ran away from your argument but hurled insults over your shoulder. Unimpressive.

In any case, your long history of passive aggression against both the Church and those who defend it has been long noted. You try hard to be civil? Well, yes, on one level...

Even if that were true, I'd rather try to be civil, even on one level, than act like an ass on every level. Kindness is apparently passé in certain right-wing circles because you, at least, don't even try any longer. There are certain things I admire about you, but this is not one of them.

[_Darth J]

You, sir, have cast away sacred things for the pottage in which you have been wallowing, in self serving grandeur, for a number of years now on this board.

Not to get into a whole thing about animal husbandry here, but pigs tend to wallow in mud, not pottage. But that's sort of beside the point, since what you're doing here is a mixed metaphor combining selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage with casting pearls before swine.

Sometimes reading your posts reminds me of when the Joads left Oklahoma in search of their great white whale.

[_sock puppet]

You, sir, have cast away sacred things for the pottage in which you have been wallowing, in self serving grandeur, for a number of years now on this board.

Not to get into a whole thing about animal husbandry here, but pigs tend to wallow in mud, not pottage. But that's sort of beside the point, since what you're doing here is a mixed metaphor combining selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage with casting pearls before swine.

Sometimes reading your posts reminds me of when the Joads left Oklahoma in search of their great white whale.

I really must read Moby Dick again. I did not remember Captain Ahab having been from Oklahoma.

[_Runtu]

I really must read Moby Dick again. I did not remember Captain Ahab having been from Oklahoma.

No, he was from Netherfield, near the Bennet home.