From the darkness of my mind...

[silveradept]

...comes something silly.

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And something not so silly.

Two things, actually. The first is that I think I've pinpointed the reason why I 'm worried about welah so much. As silly as it sounds, I want him to be happy. There are too many unknown factors out there, (no offense, tkarrde98) and so I'm worried that things won't go smoothly and that I won't be able to fix it. Plane tickets are kind of expensive, ya know? Like I've said, it's a silly, irrational fear, but it just won't leave! I guess he'll just have to assure me that things are going well once he gets out there or something.

Second thing from the darkness is actually a two-person insanity. I was talking with a friend on IM tonight (ravenfrost, incidentally. Small world when people I've met for only a few days off of LJ turn out to have LJ...) and we got to discussing the nature of homosexuality. This was after I had commented that I was not fond of the president's stances regarding the matter. My interlocutor believed that homosexuality wasn't quite kosher with evolution. Something not quite biologically right about it, I suggested as a phrase to describe it, and he agreed.

His remark was that "Men are meant to be with a woman, and vice versa." (Biologically speaking) I thought his reasoning had shortcoming on biological grounds, and he added that society, while had keeping homosexuality as a taboo, nonetheless had to acknowledge that it still happened anyway, could point to one of a host of factors - biological, societal, or otherwise. A quick repartee about our society being more accepting of the prospect (although he said that the future wouldn't look on it so well as we do today, but that it would still be miles above what it was in the past), and an interesting comment about the etymology of the slur "faggot", (apparently witches and homosexuals both got the burning, and the homosexuals were used as faggots for the fire. I'm not sure if it's true, but it's interesting. Can anyone tell me whether it's true or not?) and we both landed at the agreement that until the matter can be proven one way or another, we're not quite sure what may be the cause. All in all, while I didn't really get to figure out what he did think about the causes of homosexuality, it was still interesting watching the mechanics of another mind.

(Edit/Update: Check out the comments that have been left for more of my interlocutor's mindset. It may be helpful.)

The conversation degenerated into politics from there, unfortunately.

Either way, I'm going to go off to bed soon... yay for a 1:00 P.M. start tomorrow. And the beginning of UMMUN... and one basketball game. Funny how in the off-season, my schedule is still as busy...

Comments

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Brings up interesting biological questions in general.

Specifically, how did we (the evolutionary family) get from asexual reproduction (mitosis and budding) to sexual reproduction? Your friend's comments themselves suggest a design: there must be a "who" for there to be a "meant". Evolution or special creation, the leap to sexual reproduction is a jump of interstellar proportions without a driving force.

The more I look at evolutionary theory, the more I see there simply must be a God that did it all.

-=TK

[silveradept]

We're either very lucky, or have been guided by an invisible hand. Perhaps in discovering the universe and other potentials we'll be able to firmly decide on one or the other.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Yay for the Grand Unified Theory!

-=TK

[silveradept]

Now all we have to do is find it...