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mountain_hare · 12-07-2004, 04:03 AM

Hahh, Betty really is a typical fundie...

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.I talked it over with his therapist, who had the ludicrous idea that homosexuality was unchangable and that trying to repress could lead to lots of psychological damage (I've dropped him and will try to be finding another therapist with more moral beliefs).

LOL. She dropped a therapist who merely told her what has been supported by scientific evidence, and the American Physcological Association?

I'd love to lock her away for child abuse. But I guess what she done to her son doesn't qualify (in my books it does, though.)

ju'iblex · 12-07-2004, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by blindwatchmaker

Call me heartless and cynical, but I'm not completely convinced that new member Betty is genuine.

Might be someone trying to make a point?...

I got that impression myself. Either way, exposes one particular person in that thread as godawful and not someone i would care to ever meet.

barlam · 12-07-2004, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by ju'iblex

I got that impression myself. Either way, exposes one particular person in that thread as godawful and not someone i would care to ever meet.

well ... call me crazy ... but maybe that post was to single him out and to reveal him real self ??? ... only a theory

g-21-lto · 12-07-2004, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by scary post

I just think science gives satan more opportunities to decieve people when they think logicaly for too long, and once the seed of a lie is planted, it grows until somthing contradicts it.

The only science we need is the explanations of the Bible, we don't need to go to the moon, we don't need anything but God and his word.

You say most of the people on here are all right? What sort of responses did this post receive?

g-21-lto · 12-07-2004, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by ju'iblex

I got that impression myself. Either way, exposes one particular person in that thread as godawful and not someone i would care to ever meet.

For real. Someone who claims to be ex-gay (hey, might be possible -- who knows?), and apparently they've had some experience in coming out of the closet. I came out to my mom, who has no problem with homosexuality, and I have the added "advantage" of being bisexual (half "straight" or whatever you would see it as). And it was still tough as shit. If Betty's situation was real, Aineo's advice is heartless and stupid. (As everyone else before me has said)

trunks2k · 12-07-2004, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by blindwatchmaker

Call me heartless and cynical, but I'm not completely convinced that new member Betty is genuine.

I also doubt that Betty is genuine and is simply a person trying to make a point. It seems odd that a mother, after her son killing himself which is arguably in part her fault, would hop onto an internet message board of which she had only made a couple posts to discuss it. I'd expect there to be a longer period of mourning here. If she had established a presence for a long time, I could see it happening but after less than ten posts? I doubt it.

barlam · 12-07-2004, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by trunks2k

I also doubt that Betty is genuine and is simply a person trying to make a point. It seems odd that a mother, after her son killing himself which is arguably in part her fault, would hop onto an internet message board of which she had only made a couple posts to discuss it. I'd expect there to be a longer period of mourning here. If she had established a presence for a long time, I could see it happening but after less than ten posts? I doubt it.

yeah .... and 12 days after he tells her he kills himself ??... thats a bit short unless 'she' gave him hell .... :huh:

trunks2k · 12-07-2004, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by barlam

yeah .... and 12 days after he tells her he kills himself ??... thats a bit short unless 'she' gave him hell .... :huh:

That's not short. A friend of mine had a good friend who killed himself right in front of my friend only minutes after he told his dad he was gay.

Agnostic Theist · 12-07-2004, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by ScMay

I've just gone to that site, hadn't got passed the home page before i saw a sign of stupidity. One section is called "Sin Discussion Forums :: Christians & Non-Christians Only"

Ummm what else is there? Are there half-christians? :Cheeky:

Ah people do it all the time.

For instance, in my house we have one kitchen, downstairs. Yes, I know, we're below the poverty line. But damnit it I'm proud to be proletarian...and we'd be ruling Britain if it weren't for those C19th social reformers!

Anyway, the coment was

"Put this in the kitchen, downstairs."

Not the one that doesn't exist upstairs, then?

There's also

"I'm gonna win, or I'm gonna lose" from someone else before a judo contest. Admittedly a false dichotomy if you think about it, but it was still funny

jmem · 12-07-2004, 11:26 AM

Yeah I think Betty was making up a situation to make a point. But isn't it funny in a sick fundy kind of way how readily she was embraced, and how easy it was for her to make said point?

"Gee Betty we're real sorry your son is dead, but what can ya do? He was a homo, you know God can't stand that, of course you had to make him feel worthless sweetie...big hugs"

Disgusting.

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12-07-2004, 11:26 AM	#20
jmem Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Texas Posts: 257	Yeah I think Betty was making up a situation to make a point. But isn't it funny in a sick fundy kind of way how readily she was embraced, and how easy it was for her to make said point? "Gee Betty we're real sorry your son is dead, but what can ya do? He was a homo, you know God can't stand that, of course you had to make him feel worthless sweetie...big hugs" Disgusting.

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