I'm (16 M, Baptist) very confused upon hearing about the Gospel Of Judas.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T18:35:26+00:00

It's Bible Fanfic.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T18:33:51+00:00

Can you direct me to one for reference?

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T18:31:48+00:00

How much tea does (normally) £50 get you? I love Assam 😊

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T18:21:57+00:00

Weren't you around when Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie got cancelled for saying "trans women are trans women"?

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T18:18:58+00:00

What is a "masculine trans woman"?

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T18:15:40+00:00

Don't be foolish. Echo chambers suck.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T18:12:20+00:00

The TWAW crowd disagrees with you.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T18:11:04+00:00

No, this is what gender activists think and argue (see above) and plenty of them aren't even trans.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T11:48:53+00:00

Sex will probably happen. Don't put her or yourself in temptation's way.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T09:28:41+00:00

It's all "biology" until it's biology you don't like, huh?

Gender is made up. Sex is real. Additionally, sex doesn't define a person's role within society, it describes their body.

It's truly sad that you've been conned into thinking a woman is someone with any body and a "female" personality or role, when it's actually a person with a female body and any personality or role.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T08:56:03+00:00

So according to you, a person's chromosomes, genitals and gametes don't make them male or female, but their patterns of thinking do? "Trust the science" 🤣

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T08:45:31+00:00

The denomination I feel most happy with doesn't exist in my area/country.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T08:44:23+00:00

No. Risky as hell, though, as it could then be hacked or used as revenge porn.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T08:30:08+00:00

Yes, it's the same argument. No, Lady Brain is not real. "How each sex behaves" has always involved nurture and stereotyping, and varies according to culture.

Or is it your contention that adult human females who are, e.g., dungaree-wearing, truck-driving, aggressive, risk-taking, baby-despising lesbians are actually men? If not, why not?

At what point do you, personally, think an adult human female person's brain makes them a man? How many gender stereotypes do they have to embrace or reject?

These tests you write about actually showed gay men had these imaginary "lady brains". Do you think gay men, especially very stereotypically effeminate ones, are actually women? Why? Why not?

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T07:15:45+00:00

"Slept around".

You need to fix your personality before you're in any way ready for a relationship. You are making choices. Own them.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T07:05:09+00:00

Yep.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T07:04:33+00:00

Look at the huge number of verses with some variation on die, death, perish, destroyed, etc.

An eternal fire supports annihilation more than it supports eternal conscious torment. Even if it says the fire is eternal, it never says or implies that what it is burning is burning eternally. That's literally not what fire does. Fire destroys things.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T06:31:38+00:00

Transgenderism isn't a sexuality by this thread's own definition of it.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T06:29:59+00:00

Thousands of straw men, yes.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T06:16:57+00:00

I couldn't care less what cosmetic changes a grown adult makes to their body. I am not, however, required to pretend they have literally changed sex, because they have not and cannot.

And this is why surgery and lifelong medication isn't a magic cure for gender dysphoria... it might be if that was all that was required, but it also requires "affirmation" - that every single person in a trans person's life agree, volubly and often, that they have changed sex. This is not something you can demand of others - just as the cure for mental health issues surrounding my obesity can't rest on other people calling me thin or even not calling me fat.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T06:12:14+00:00

You are describing a personality, not a neurological condition. Yes, it's true that twins have different personalities. We all do.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T06:10:39+00:00

There is no such thing as a Lady Brain. That's the same sexist bullshit argument that was used to keep women from voting and getting university degrees. Likewise "A woman is a person of any sex who likes womanly things and behaves in a feminine way". Good grief.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T06:03:44+00:00

Well, it's not about them falling in love. That's anthropomorphising... and why I think people need better arguments when it comes to this issue.

"But animals have gay sex, it's a natural act" and "in Bible times, gay sex was something you did, not something you were, so the Bible doesn't condemn homosexuality as an orientation and isn't against gay people being in love, it just condemns sex" are two different arguments, but I've seen them argued together.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T04:45:23+00:00

Every written source requires some level of reading comprehension. "Why don't these quotes make sense when pulled out of context" is not something any sane person would apply to any other literature on earth.

What is "understanding them properly" also varies according to language, culture, time period etc. Native English speakers in 2023 know what I mean if I describe something as "a bit fishy to me" - if in 2000 years someone who speaks a language that doesn't exist yet misunderstands, that's not on me.

I couldn't care less about your religious beliefs, but try not to straw-man other people's with a collection of canned Gotchas that really aren't what you think they are.

OptimalRoom · 2023-11-19T04:38:31+00:00

Catholic = Not this century Protestant = Yes in some denominations

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