Ninja

*Please only intelligent reposes*

I want to hear some actual thoughts on discrimination without our own community. Moreover, the negative effect of our own discrimination on the civil rights movement we are currently in?

My personal thoughts are that as a community, we cannot really ask for equal treatment, (im speaking socially, not under the law) if we thusly discriminate within our own community. As a black gay male, it's not racism that I'm talking about, but more like strong preferences. From my own experiences, we very much so look down upon those traits that society has deemed unacceptable. So for example, the need to seem uber-masculine to overcome the fact that a man is a bottom. We see so much emphasis on the need to seem masculine, that those people in our community who aren't, are alienated and given stigmas in our own community. The same goes for misconceptions about the roles in a lesbian relationship. Butch females are deemed too masculine and given a whole list assumptions to deal with from that perspective.

I believe that our own cynicism only pushes us further away from our goals. What do you guys think?

It's a

2004 Pontiac Grand Prix GT1

3.8 L V6

So far I've surmised that it could be a vacuum leak. Open to any suggestions before I take it into the dealer. Btw, this isn't anything recent. It's been like this since I got the car but it's used so I don't know if it is normal.

I was listening to Pandora radio and there is this song that I can't get out of my head. Don't laugh but the only thing I remember is the melody and the lady singing "Come on me, Come on, Come on me"

It's not a dirty song or anything, that's just what shes singing. The picture I remember has some chick from the 80s in a yellow tank top, bending over forward, with multicolored beads in her braided blonde hair...(photographic memory ><) She looked like she was doing gymnastics or something. I dunno. HELP!

Well, first off i'm not one of those "I'll change him"-types, but here we go. So I met this guy online and lets say, he's a 12 on a scale of 1-10. He's a cop, with a hot body and lets just say if I didn't know him and ever we're to be pulled over by him, i'd let him take advantage of me without question.

So we had been friends with benefits for a while, (6 months or so) but he had a gf and I didn't find out about her until later on. Even though, the sex was great and I'm about a 6/10. It's kinda difficult for me to find smoking guys and he just happened to really like me for some reason or another. He says he feels comfortable with me. About 5 months into the thing he broke up with his GF and moved out. I got excited even though I knew it wasn't for me or anything like that.

ANYWAYS, I started to fall for him, (I know stupid) so I quickly ended the relationship (or whatever you wanna call it). He was really upset and I was as well but I knew that it wouldn't go anywhere. And I figured I'd save myself the embarrassment of wanting someone i'll never have more than sexually.

I'm the "love hard" type and I knew that if I let myself fall for him I'd end up feeling really heartbroken in the end because he apparently isn't interested in guys other than me.

So like, yesterday after not talking or seeing each other for about 2 months he emails me telling me how much he misses me. I miss him too, but I told him that the decision still stood and that we'd never do anything as long as he was still not being truthful with himself. After a night of texting and emails, and me holding my ground he asks me if I could help him find someone who would be comfortable with the Friends with benefits thing, and I stopped talking to him for the night.

Like I said, this guy is like really, really hot. 6'3 220 pounds of muscle and just a really sweet guy with some demons to deal with.

I'd never be able to help him find someone else, so should I persue the FwB model or cut the cord again? Or even possibly try to have a friendship with him?(Although I think that would lead to stuff happening that I don't want)

Ok, so I have a 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix. I recently had the dent removed and body filler put on. I'm trying to finish the job myself, I am going to go to auto zone and get sanding pads to sand and shape the area so it matches. I have an aerosol can of the OEM paint that was used on the car. (Galaxy Silver, GM code 12) I think im gonna get tape in order to avoid sections that are fine.

I'm planning to sand and shape, as well as sand around the area to blend better. Do you guys think this is a good idea? And give me some tips on how to make this a flawless looking job.

isn't pollution basically destroying what god has built?

Like for the people who are against environmentalism, and the people who don't believe in global warming.

Does that mean that any Christian who drives a car is basically telling god to suck it?

There have been countless versions and translations of the bible from the original language until the different versions we see today. How can we take everything in that book to be fact if it has been passed through the hands of man countless times.

It's like that game, where you sit in 30 person circle. One person says one thing, and they each tell the next. By the time it gets to the original person, it is usually COMPLETELY different then what was originally said. Take into account that this is only 30 people, all using the same language, all within a 5 minute time span.

So you are telling me that the 10,000 different versions/translations over a supposed 2000 years, by man (who is usually corrupt by power), handwritten, typed, spell-checked, burned, cut-outs and add-ins, is supposed to be fact to the T. Also, what kind of god tells me if I don't do what he says, I will be punished. Sounds like some antiquated parental rule.

I don't understand how people place 100% faith in something that is this flawed and has been touched by so many flawed people. And why the need for so many versions if it is his word?

This website absolutely made me laugh.

http://rockhay.tripod.com/worship/translat.htm

Shed some light please.

Is it:

Marrying for money?

Marrying for citizenship?

Marrying because you knocked some girl up?

Marrying because you got drunk in Vegas?

Marrying because you are lonely?

Marrying because if you can't have him, no one can?

Marrying because you want a baby and he wont give one to you?

Marrying because, "All my friends are married."?

Marrying because "I've always dreamed of the perfect wedding, don't wanna miss out on the opportunity!"?

The sanctity of marriage was gone a long time ago, sometime around when you could marry for property. Yea, around that time?

Or am I just missing the point?

If I pay to sanitize YOUR clean, drinkable, water, honk!

If I pay for YOUR kid's public education so he can grow up and hate me because im different, honk!

If I pay for the trash bag full of ho-oh's, twinkies and fried anything that you shove down YOUR families throats every night, honk!

If I pay for the roads YOU drive on with your Earth-killing H2, HONK!

If I pay for the sidewalks that YOUR pudgy kid walks on. Honk!

If I help pay for the war on NO ONE, that you so desperately sought out, HONK!

I pay taxes too, but I don't complain about it because we all live a carefree lifestyle where we don't have to worry about what we pour down the sink. We don't have t worry about where the 18 pack of beer cans go after we throw them out. We say things like, "they" need to fix this road. We buy 24 packs bottled water, throw them on he ground and don't have to worry about it. We expect the 8000 odd satellites that orbit the earth to function on their own and never have to worry about anything. We turn on our tap faucets, and say "This water tastes weird.", pour it out and never think about it again.

You know, if we had no taxes then all of our lives would be hell. I'm not complaining about paying taxes, I accept that to live the way we do, it's a necessity.

WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.