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Thursday, August 17, 2006
Random Update
Sorry I haven't done too much with this thing recently. My attempt at a series on homosexuality just wasn't working out. I still stand where I stood in the beginning, but I am not sure if it proved to challenge my position or any other's very well... I think I will discontinue it now. If you kept up with it and enjoyed it, sorry... Lynlea is moving away from us tomorrow. She is going to Boise for University. It will be good. She will enjoy the "big town" (as I do not think Boise counts as a city) far better than either Kimberly or Hagerman. I am going to go hang out with her today than help her move tomorrow. So, I doubt any of you will see me online for a while... I have band practice on Saturday. I guess we are now adding vocals. I am a bit nervous, but it will be fun. They are all pretty talented. I guess I am just in a state of "blah" right now. Concern. Excitement. Disappointment. Semi-happiness. I don't know. It will pass soon. Peace
posted by -mike- at 11:08 AM
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6 Comments:
I've been reading your blogs and it's refreshing to see a young mind with so much insight. You seem like you are an amazing young man that will offer so much to our world.
You are amazing and I'm sure you've made your parents proud.
I'm sorry, too. :-P
Call me you Arse
For controversy come visit my blog at http://theology.dawncaller.org/ as open war is declared upon Tyndale House. Find the details out when you come on over.
Okey dokey. I'm coming to the game after it's already over, but I just now found your blog. So sue me.
Just a few random facts about human sexual practice:
Homosexuality IS NOT THE SAME THING as anal sex. Kids, the fact is, some people like anal play in their sex, and some don't. There are straight people out there who enjoy the back door. There are gay people out there who don't. Some men like it, some women like it, some like it sometimes, some don't like it ever, and there are both straight and gay folk in each category. Oddly, I've never heard a Christian call for the expulsion from the church of heterosexual married couples who might be engaging in anal sex.
There is more than one position for just about any point of sexual entry. It is possible to have anal sex while facing each other. It is also possible to have vaginal sex "from behind," so the partners are not facing each other. There are a lot of ways to "rock the rafters."
If you're a man who regularly and knowingly sleeps in a bed in which your menstruating wife has slept, guess what? Your "lifestyle" is Levitically abominable. Better call SleepTrain, stat.
...Just a few random observations...
yours in the struggle,
Max
I don't think anyone would be disputing that. But,t hanks for the contribution, however late it may have been...
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