Post by: Netham45 on April 12, 2007, 10:12:00 am
The Day of Silence is a day where GLBT(Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual,Transexual) people or supporters don't talk for a day to show the lack of voice the GLBT community has. The goal is to not talk :X
for nine consectutive waking hours.You can find more information at http://www.dayofsilence.org/ .
It is on Wednesday, April 18 2007 this year.
:)
Edit: [Admins]: Would this be apropriate for news???
Post by: josephmarin on April 12, 2007, 11:18:00 am
Post by: rivereye on April 12, 2007, 02:32:00 pm
Loud, Straight, Proud!!!
Post by: Speler on April 12, 2007, 03:35:00 pm
Post by: rivereye on April 13, 2007, 12:38:00 am
Post by: Insanity on April 13, 2007, 01:04:00 am
*Insanity
Post by: josephmarin on April 13, 2007, 04:44:00 am
Post by: calc84maniac on April 13, 2007, 06:10:00 am
Post by: spengo on April 13, 2007, 10:12:00 am
) I'm ok with homos.
Post by: bfr on April 13, 2007, 10:15:00 am
Post by: Speler on April 13, 2007, 10:28:00 am
Post by: bfr on April 13, 2007, 10:38:00 am
Post by: Speler on April 13, 2007, 01:28:00 pm
Post by: bfr on April 13, 2007, 01:35:00 pm
Definition #3: "at variance with what is normal or to be expected"
That's what I meant.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude, and I try to avoid quoting dictionary websites....
Post by: Halifax on April 13, 2007, 02:26:00 pm
Post by: tifreak on April 13, 2007, 04:05:00 pm
Post by: Speler on April 14, 2007, 02:08:00 am
Post by: tenniskid493 on April 14, 2007, 03:12:00 am
Post by: Insanity on April 14, 2007, 05:02:00 am
Post by: spengo on April 14, 2007, 06:46:00 am
| QUOTE (Super Speler @ 14 Apr, 2007, 13:08) |
| Neither can a women and a man over 60. Is love between them un-natural? |
But if you remember, back in the day the average life span of a human being was around 3-40. Modern medicine makes it possible to have people living 80 and 100 years old.
Besides, it seems pretty natural to me that people over 60 can't have children. After a certain age, their ability to be good parents decreases simply because they can't do as much anymore. Think about your grandma-- as much as she loves babies, imagine the difficulty she'd have in raising one.
Also, I'm with halifax--boobies FTW! O_O
Post by: Insanity on April 14, 2007, 10:53:00 am
| QUOTE (Super Speler @ 14 Apr, 2007, 13:08) |
| boobies FTW! O_O |
[ Southern Accent ]: Best durn thangs ever 'nvented, I'll tell ya what. Ain't never seen somethin' so ver-see-tile in my life. Cain't have a purty woman wit'out a good set a' hooters. No, sir'ree.
Now, with the guys... 'scuse me a sec'nd, I'm gon' need a beer on this one...
* glug, glug, glug, glug, glug, glug... *
* Aaaahhh *
Nothin' like a 'freshin' beer er'ry now 'n then.
Anyway, now with the guys... they ain't got nothin' to... er... well... 'preciate, ya know? Nah, if ya gay or somethin' like that, I ain't puttin' ya down, but I mean, ya look at a guy and its like, "Man, thur's somethin' missin' here... ain't no...." It's like lookin' at a wall; ain't got nothin' there. 'S [It's] like watchin' that there CSPAN channer on the tel-ee-vis'n. I had 'ta git that channer blocked off 'cause I be lookin' for me somethin' good to watch and I flip past that channer there and, shoot, I already be snorin' in the chair lookin' like I been hittin' the bottles 'little too hard. Just nothin' there to 'preciate.
* glug, glug, glug, glug... *
Now, with the purty women, ya gots that el-ee-ment of... vis-u-al-tee. It's like lookin' at one of them fancy paint'ns and ya know ya don't know what the hell ya lookin' at, but ya can't take your eyes off'a it. It's like one a'dem magnets ya' put up on yer coolin' box. Finest work of art ya ever done saw if ya saw one. An' when ya have them purty lesbian women, shoo'wee, it's bett'r than that "buy one, git one free" thang. Best party animals ya ever did see...
Welp, bett'a git on out 'er here; I gots me some tel-ee-vis'n ta watch...
Post by: Speler on April 14, 2007, 11:12:00 am
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unnatural Definition #3: Post by: Halifax on April 14, 2007, 01:10:00 pm Post by: Speler on April 14, 2007, 02:01:00 pm Post by: bfr on April 14, 2007, 02:29:00 pm 
Post by: spengo on April 14, 2007, 03:06:00 pm Oh, one thing I'm pretty sure is immoral is that gender reassignment surgery thing that some transsexuals do. That's pretty nasty if ya ask me. Post by: Speler on April 14, 2007, 03:33:00 pm .
Post by: spengo on April 14, 2007, 03:57:00 pm Turds are nasty, but they ain't immoral. Gender reassignment surgery is both though methinks. :X
Post by: josephmarin on April 14, 2007, 10:09:00 pm Post by: CureDesu on April 15, 2007, 02:27:00 am It's an all out Battle Royale.. Post by: Speler on April 15, 2007, 03:32:00 am Post by: bfr on April 15, 2007, 04:11:00 am Post by: josephmarin on April 15, 2007, 12:50:00 pm Post by: tenniskid493 on April 16, 2007, 11:39:00 am its ur choice an i can't control it, so why worry about it (my thoughts)
Post by: Insanity on April 17, 2007, 12:54:00 am Post by: Netham45 on April 17, 2007, 02:18:00 am It must be good there because were talking about it here. Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 15, 2007, 05:21:00 pm Post by: Halifax on September 15, 2007, 06:00:00 pm I can't imagine just hating someone for something they do, that is just something my mind can't grasp. On the same hand you can't make someone conform to your ideals, but just advise. So I will advise people who hate gays/lesbians to open their mind, and accept other peoples decision. Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 15, 2007, 06:30:00 pm I just don't see why we have to hate something that won't harm us Post by: Halifax on September 15, 2007, 07:31:00 pm Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 15, 2007, 07:38:00 pm Post by: lordofthegeeks on September 16, 2007, 01:35:00 am also i love homosexuals But i do not love the traversity they comit. i would go into details but it would go strait to the bible Post by: dinhotheone on September 16, 2007, 03:31:00 am having said that im going to keep my opinion on this to myself because i dont fool myself into thinking that anyone will change with it or even that anyone cares. _________________________________________________________________ 255 posts because such numbers should be recognized more than the thousands in a calc progging community Post by: spengo on September 16, 2007, 07:21:00 am 
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There was a gay dude that went to my high school who was very religious too. He just didn't act on it and stuff I guess. I thought he was pretty funny, he was the kind of guy who would get into debates with religion teachers. From what I understand, the christian faith says that sex is the ultimate act of love and should always be open to life. They are against buttsecks for the same reason they are against contraception. You can't give all of yourself to another person if you keep back the possibility for life or something like that. Anyways to dinho, I think most people against gay sex don't hate gay people, they think something similar to this. Even so, the government should have no business in it. Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2007, 09:12:00 am What the f*** is up with all those gay parades though? This is just stupid, why not a Barney fan parade while at it? Post by: dinhotheone on September 16, 2007, 09:24:00 am Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2007, 09:27:00 am and congrats for 255 posts, now you became an assembly program. jk Post by: lordofthegeeks on September 16, 2007, 09:31:00 am i belive it is wrong thats my personal belief. lets go with the armys policy- "Don't ask Don't tell" and lookat nature do we see any other creature seeking the same gender for intourcourse? Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2007, 10:14:00 am Post by: spengo on September 16, 2007, 10:48:00 am  This whole day of silence thing I don't really get either. Gay rights activists are some of the loudest people on the planet! "omgz nobody listens to us we has no voice!" stfu ph00lz! quit yer whinin'. No offense. ;) (of course imo the debate shouldn't even exist as the government shouldn't have anything to do with marriage in the first place) I would also say religion is a moot point. Separation of church and state plzkthx. :)
Post by: Halifax on September 16, 2007, 01:39:00 pm Are people scared of seeing, and admitting what really happens in life? You can't post pictures about 9/11 without people tell you that you are a f**king idiot, and you are insulting the families. Telling the truth is an insult? Point is, people don't like to deal with life in actuality. We can't make a game about sex, and not have it banned, although that same 13 year old who plays the game is probably going to go out and have sex either way. Defending things with the bible really isn't something that should be done. How can you protest Resistance Fall of Man with the bible? and say it is immoral and insensitive to the future. My point being, religion/church should be separated from anything that doesn't explicitly have to deal with religion/church. EDIT: Don't say a f**king debate won't change anything. If that was what the whole world thought, then what happened at Jena Six? Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2007, 01:50:00 pm And I wouldn't like if we were left with no government, because economy would fall and the entire country would turn into chaos. Just when the quebec city mayor died a few weeks ago the time they elected someone to replace her, which took 3 days, it was alerady starting getting hot there. But government shouldn't have to deal with everything, especially not religion. I never understood why religion, especially catholic one still take a big place in society even after discovering 90% of the priest sexually abused childrens in dormitories in the mid 1900s and still do today Post by: spengo on September 16, 2007, 02:20:00 pm
Whoah whoah hold on here where are you getting this. :gah:  I never said I was an anarchist and what the hell does manhunt 2 have anything to do with this? (btw you can get the original version online if you... know where to look. ;) ) As for it telling the truth about life... hehe I don't think that game was meant to be realistic rofl. Resistance Fall of Man the church of england got mad at 'cause they used one of their churches in the game. They are being rather unreasonable about it, though I don't understand what this has to do with gay rights either.QuoteBegin
O_O Uhh... no. Just no. In fact 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of priests don't abuse anybody... that's kinda... against the whole idea of being a priest. Holy s***, dunno where you got THAT statistic from... Cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests are actually probably one of the rarest things on the planet. No offense but you have a highly warped view of the catholic faith. Post by: Halifax on September 16, 2007, 02:26:00 pm And I was more or less talking about GTA being realistic. How can you deny a videogame's release, but allow porn sites that are accessible to children through a simple click of saying you are 18? I just don't see the logic in that. Post by: spengo on September 16, 2007, 02:34:00 pm Post by: Halifax on September 16, 2007, 02:38:00 pm Also it is very stupid to hate Rockstar as a whole as it was mainly Rockstar North. And ESRB is a joke. I think they just need to die. Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2007, 02:38:00 pm 
Post by: Halifax on September 16, 2007, 02:42:00 pm They obviously could have released the original version, but as we know AO is basically a death note to your videogame. Which is easy to tell as I bet no one has even heard of 5 out of the 24 games that have an AO rating. Some of them are even from respected developers such as Vivendi, Atari, and others. Post by: spengo on September 16, 2007, 02:43:00 pm  So they remade it so it could be rated M. No more ripping nuts off with pliers I'm afraid. XD ESRB is a joke, did you know they don't even play the games? They just watch preview vids. And yeah they hate rockstar because they hate GTA and then *really* hated GTA:SA because of the hidden sex scenes and now they always rain down their much haet on rockstar.
Post by: Halifax on September 16, 2007, 02:48:00 pm Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2007, 02:54:00 pm Post by: spengo on September 16, 2007, 05:43:00 pm Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2007, 05:51:00 pm Post by: spengo on September 16, 2007, 07:00:00 pm  Little teeny gba screens with 2D gore is not nearly as bad as uber ps2 graphics on a big screen.
Post by: Halifax on September 16, 2007, 07:03:00 pm Post by: necro on September 16, 2007, 08:22:00 pm
Yay for gays and lesbians, boo for people that hate them. I think the problem is people don't watch enough porn :) . Anyways, I heard only two phrases I'll rehash on: first, as most species of animals besides humans have some percentage of their populations homosexual, i think it would qualify as natural.And second, people aren't supposed to do anything. Life, quite fortunately, doesn't have a predefined prime directive or purpose or anything of the sort. Rather, we can choose our own hopes, dreams, and goals. There is no inherent need to reproduce other than to sate an instinct. Anyways, I would much rather have a national science day...maybe celebrate with DNA strand streamers and lively discussion about quantum physics or the nature of infinity or just a little reading up on bucky balls and carbon nanofibers and nanotori, or arguing over whether dimensional tunneling is remotely plausible or silly school boyish duncery, and of course reading up on some of the newest fossils and neat tech toys and next wonder drugs you would want to forge a prescription for, and so forth. Post by: dinhotheone on September 17, 2007, 12:35:00 am
i didnt say that... i said it wont really have any effect on this issue because people's points of views on this issue are so innately built into them. there is no logic that those who believe gays are evil can throw at you because they are going on bible and what thier parents/society have taught them. others who feel that they are just different and judge them by what they do and who they are and who dont clump all gays into one big bin get nothing but crap thrown at them in the form of debate. i do not however believe that debating is useless just that its better to avoid flamewars and the like (which is my experiance) in this one case. also i think family needs to be referenced here (satire about society): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7027708764389905359&q=family+guy+gay&total=820&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3 also how did this convo switch to videogames, ive read the posts and i still dont know what that guy is saying Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 17, 2007, 03:46:00 am Post by: Halifax on September 17, 2007, 08:16:00 am
Oh, my bad then, I apologize dinhotheone. Post by: dinhotheone on September 17, 2007, 12:42:00 pm Post by: JonimusPrime on September 17, 2007, 01:06:00 pm The is my view on this issue they think or want to or are gay let them be I don't care if they start hitting on my manliness then maybe I'll care but other then that whatever. the Beatles made that song for a reason so listen to it. Post by: Speler on September 17, 2007, 01:48:00 pm Post by: JonimusPrime on September 17, 2007, 01:55:00 pm
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 18, 2007, 03:35:00 pm Post by: Zera on November 01, 2007, 04:13:00 pm Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 01, 2007, 05:40:00 pm I don't mind some off topic discussions on the forum though, even if it involves some debates, but I keep an eye on topic like this one or about politic, abortion and any other controversial stuff, because it can easily go out of hand. I'm glad that besides when lordofthegeeks came in this topic things stayed kinda under control though, you should have seen the similar topic that was posted on United-TI back then. It wasn't involving flame wars, but it was close o.o That said, I agree with the fact that this site is more of a work place and technical discussion stuff and not really moral stuff. Not to brag, but I think this forum is the most calc games oriented TI forum out there. That said in the past there was a lot of arguments in the past involving calc programming unfortunately, so it wasn't just politic, religion, sexual orientation, etc. There was a time when using TI-BASIC (or ASM libs + TI-BASIC) was almost a crime on some TI forums, you would get bashed pretty bad for using it, even if your game was better than some ASM games. :(  Having been a TI-BASIC user for 6 and half a year and still failed at ASM you can guess I got bashed pretty bad often back then -.-  .
Post by: Zera on December 02, 2007, 10:36:00 am First of all, this thread was about a holiday -- not religious morality or evolutionary science. However, a few members brought it upon theirselves to participate in this discussion SOLEY to illustrate their feelings against homosexuality. The fact that they are against it does not bother me in the least bit -- it's the fact that they have absolutely NO regard for anything outside of their own beliefs and just had to rain on Netham's parade with pages of off-topic discussion about what's natural and what's not. That wasn't the point of this thread. All Nathem wanted to do was remind people about a holiday, in case any of our members were interested in checking it out. Yes, I'm sure we do have a few gay / bi members here, myself included. The next time a topic about religion comes up, I'm going to post only to state my disapproval of religion based on how religious members have represented their lack of respect for anyone other than theirselves. Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 02, 2007, 11:31:00 am I just hope that the people who are against homosexuality doesn't hate those ppl, like, if a friend reveal them he is then he start hating him and doesn't want to talk to him anymore. That would be pretty homophobic and homophoby should be banned from the entire world, as it is as worse (if not more) as racism, discrimination, slander, libel and elitism. Why hate somebody for a skin color or their sexual orientation? Especially if the person doesnt bother you with it and act normal toward yourself? If somebody hate gay people here with no exception, they might as well leave Omnimaga forums, because they have no idea how many people here and the IRC channel are either gay or bi! O_O I know at least 15% of the entire Omnimaga staff, including managers and admin are.
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 02, 2007, 11:37:00 am Just to tell how people could be there used to be lot of people who hated someone for the simple fact that he used TI-BASIC inside a game and doesn't know ASM. Post by: TIfanx1999 on December 02, 2007, 12:10:00 pm Post by: MSR5 on December 02, 2007, 04:41:00 pm Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 02, 2007, 05:09:00 pm There is also the gay parade things, I think it got overrated with the time. It always look more like attention begging than trying to convince ppl gay are like each others. On top of that almost all guys are disguised as women x.x, it just look weird and overrated imo. I just think that if such parade was neccessary that there should be one for black ppl, arabs, asians and all ethnicities everywhere a gay parade occurs. Post by: dinhotheone on December 02, 2007, 05:47:00 pm Post by: Zera on December 03, 2007, 07:58:00 am
I take it no one really caught the point I was trying to make. I just don't understand why the most trivial mention of homosexuality has to result in a full social dissection of gay issues like adoption, marriage, and so forth. Although, I guess those subjects actually do relate to the Day of Silence, so this is somewhat of a moot point to be illustrating at the wrong time. Either way, it's just my frustration speaking. Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 03, 2007, 08:23:00 am That said I was wondering if the Day Of Silence always occurs at the same date every year? Because I never heard of it before I saw this topic and over here it got announced in newspaper almost one month after it occured. Is it just an american holiday? Post by: dinhotheone on December 03, 2007, 09:07:00 am
because there is no universal answer for the question, is homosexuality okay. when someone posts something about how on a certain day, a group of people are getting together to celebrate a certain viewpoint, inevitably people are going to post saying that they support the opposite. whch then leads to defence of the original view, and so on. |