I continue to hear many things regarding the increased acceptance of homosexuality, especially the hatred thrown at those who hold fast to traditional marriage.
What I find interesting is that most homosexuality supporters (abbreviated to HS for this post) label the traditional supporters (TS, for this post) as 'intolerant' and 'bigots.' But, if we are to understand 'intolerance' as a feeling or act of hatred towards those who disagree to our own view, then surely - by the very act of calling a TS a 'bigot' - the HS group are displaying strong signs of intolerance and bigotry?
How is it 'tolerant' to say, "You don't agree with me, so you're a bigot"? Or, in its most ironic form, "I can't tolerate your intolerance!" Surely 'tolerance' would be to say, "We accept people, regardless of their view"?
It seems to me that this whole issue is a very clever piece of social peer pressure - brainwashing, if you will. People don't like being called names, especially to be labelled as something like a 'bigot.' For a TS, the options are to either change their thinking to become a HS, or to be irrationally and intolerantly labelled and insulted.
The HS agenda is moved forward, not with logical reasoning or scientific evidence, but with schoolyard bully tactics. The TS group are made to feel alienated by their own people unless they change their view. The feeling of alienation is unpleasant, and it doesn't require much conversation to find that many people (in UK, at least) do not have enough foundation to their beliefs, that many will move from a TS to a HS (still without solid conviction).
To top it off, 'tolerance' laws are then added to society, jeopardising the jobs of the TS if they should voice their opinion in the wrong environment. How is this equality? How is this tolerant?
It seems - to me at least - the hallmark of a society that does not really know what it wants to be. An act of people-pleasing that only results in confusion, anarchy and alienation.
What I also find ironic is the offence caused by turning the name-calling around: the next time a HS calls a TS a bigot, tell them that such a statement is a sign of intolerant bigotry and see what happens!
Wednesday 20 January 2016
Saturday 2 January 2016
Increase in modern mental health problems
Is it clear that recent years have shown an increase in mental health issues such as depression. There is also a massive increase in people being diagnosed with things such as ADD, ADHD, ODD, many other acronyms, as well as Asperger's syndrome and the fairly recent conclusion that autism is a 'spectrum' that we are all on at some point.
Perhaps we have just managed to come up with more names to label the behaviour of various people (especially as it is now considered offensive and politically incorrect to call someone 'retarded', a 'delinquent' or an 'idiot'), or perhaps there is a reason behind it - an inconvenient reason, given the state of modern British society.
Scientists are slowly convincing the Western world that they have (or, are developing) the answers and understanding to everything pertaining to life on earth. Religions are more commonly being described as primitive belief systems, for people with limited understanding (some staunch atheists thrive off such name-calling).
However, could it be that since 'tampering with the supernatural', such as playing with ouija boards and tarot cards, has now been described as innocent and harmless play (by those very same academically advanced 'professionals'), their effects are no longer being treated in the correct manner?
'Primitive' peoples would look to witch doctors or spiritualists if there was something happening in their life that they couldn't understand. In earlier Christian societies, people would turn to the priests for deliverance from the negativity they encounter.
But now, in an age where spirituality is increasingly brushed off as nonsense, we are seeing an increase in mental and behavioural disorders...
To top it off, churches and other religious gatherings can be subject to accusations of preying on the weak and needy when people with such disorders search for spiritual help with their problems. In other words, the very people needing spiritual help/deliverance are prevented from such treatment due to the accusations and assumptions of people who believe such things to be nonsense.
Some people would even go so far as to calling such help a form of 'brainwashing', despite such people having essentially 'brainwashed' society into believing that spirituality is just nonsense.
The irony is that 'serious academics' wouldn't 'tarnish' their career by properly researching the possibility of such connections, and anyone who would dare to put forward research which would suggest such a connection would be labelled as unprofessional or a supporter of 'pseudoscience'.
Perhaps we have just managed to come up with more names to label the behaviour of various people (especially as it is now considered offensive and politically incorrect to call someone 'retarded', a 'delinquent' or an 'idiot'), or perhaps there is a reason behind it - an inconvenient reason, given the state of modern British society.
Scientists are slowly convincing the Western world that they have (or, are developing) the answers and understanding to everything pertaining to life on earth. Religions are more commonly being described as primitive belief systems, for people with limited understanding (some staunch atheists thrive off such name-calling).
However, could it be that since 'tampering with the supernatural', such as playing with ouija boards and tarot cards, has now been described as innocent and harmless play (by those very same academically advanced 'professionals'), their effects are no longer being treated in the correct manner?
'Primitive' peoples would look to witch doctors or spiritualists if there was something happening in their life that they couldn't understand. In earlier Christian societies, people would turn to the priests for deliverance from the negativity they encounter.
But now, in an age where spirituality is increasingly brushed off as nonsense, we are seeing an increase in mental and behavioural disorders...
To top it off, churches and other religious gatherings can be subject to accusations of preying on the weak and needy when people with such disorders search for spiritual help with their problems. In other words, the very people needing spiritual help/deliverance are prevented from such treatment due to the accusations and assumptions of people who believe such things to be nonsense.
Some people would even go so far as to calling such help a form of 'brainwashing', despite such people having essentially 'brainwashed' society into believing that spirituality is just nonsense.
The irony is that 'serious academics' wouldn't 'tarnish' their career by properly researching the possibility of such connections, and anyone who would dare to put forward research which would suggest such a connection would be labelled as unprofessional or a supporter of 'pseudoscience'.
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