We interrupt The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Football for Church? What the heck? That is unAmerican! Period!
....jake
--- In Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com, "Jake" <jakewest_tn@...> wrote:
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> Bill;
>
> I am happy for you. But, thanksgiving is not in the bible. Jesus has not returned. I guess if Mormens have taken over, ThanksGiving in the USA is not a religious holiday. Period. It is a American Holiday. If you go to Church, than the church has found a reason to collect money. Didn't thew church hear about the expense of Turkey? And than the expense of Black Friday and Cyber Monday?
>
> Poor time to be in service when poeple should be out feeding the homeless; Gay Yourth Centers; etc!
>
> Shame! Shame! Shame!
>
> Don't expect me to be feel good about religion, You are marching down the wrong road here! LOLOLOL
>
> ...Jake
>
> --- In Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com, "BillBearNJ@" <BillBearNJ@> wrote:
> >
> > Jake, I go to church. Is New Jersey part of the USA? lol. --Bill
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -------Original Message-------
> >
> > From: stanley blanc
> > Date: 11/28/2011 4:15:09 PM
> > To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Re: Twink
> > Wars-Nov 26, 2011-BoycottTrump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
> >
> >
> > I don't know about trevor's experience but most of the people I lnow, even
> > som eJewish peopkle, have Turkey for Thanksgivinbg. It is a statutory
> > holiday an dthe American Thanksgiving started because they couldn't
> > celebrate the Thanksgiving omn the Church calendar in October because the
> > Pilgrims were building their cabins and at first didn't have enough food to
> > make it a worthwhile celebration.
> > I don't understand about why Trevor played down Thanksgiving.
> > We just don't make it like Christmas which is what Americans do.
> >
> > University students go home for Thanksgiving etc.
> >
> > Bucth
> >
> > Moderator: Butch, some Jewish People? eat Turkey? Well, Thanks giving the
> > USA is not a Religious holiday at all. Period. It is more spiritual and
> > thanks for the food and the land. No one goes to church. Indians gave the
> > pilgrams Turkey, so Turkey is eaten by everyone, regardless of religion,
> > ethnic. Unless one is vegeterian. shame we must go so off topic. Has nothing
> > to being alone on a holiday. and i did not start a conversation on relgion.
> > ..jake
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Trevor Scott <trevors02@>
> > To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 12:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Re: Twink
> > Wars-Nov 26, 2011-BoycottTrump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
> >
> >
> > Thanks, Jake.
> >
> > In Canada, Thanksgiving is not really a big deal, our biggest Holiday is
> > Christmas. Several years ago, I got fed up with feeling sorry for myself at
> > Christmas and started organizing what I called an "Orphan's Christmas." I
> > call a few lonely friends and had them come over, but there was a catch;
> > they had to bring someone else who was also alone for Christmas. This extra
> > guest could be a street person, someone sick (as long as not actively
> > contagious), an acquaintance from work, or whatever. The result was many a
> > great and memorable "Orphan" Christmas Dinner!
> >
> > BTW: if we knew the background of the "extra" guestin time, we always have a
> > small token gift.
> >
> > Regards
> > Trev
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Jake <jakewest_tn@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >Hi, I hope that you all had a good thanksgiving. I know that many of you
> > live a lone and have no family and may have had no friends to be with. I
> > hope you did get out, go to a diner, grab a paper, a book, or made dinner
> > your yourself. I know it feels lonely on a holiday. i should have said
> > something beforehand. I had not been feeling well lately and not in the
> > mood to openly tal. For some reason, today, i feel pretty good. Anyway,
> > sometimes it helps to volulunteer to feed the homeless on a holiday, or some
> > think like that. Try to plan out in advance and give yourself something to
> > do. Even a movie. Or a movie and a diner! perhaps there is a friend who
> > is a lone. Get togehter. A neighbor?
> > >So start planning on christmas! There may be a gay youth center, HIV
> > center.
> > >Anyway, i put up a article in Twink wars today called: The Self-Destructive
> > Insanity of Pro-Palestinian Gay Activists. I was wondering if any one read
> > it. It is some what of a trick article. Opps, I just made it easy for you.
> > Now, right what is wrong, right, or what well know public person could have
> > written it?
> > >It could be fun!
> > >...jake
> > >
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> > >> the anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian queer left.
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> > >> quoting a line from William Butler Yeats (a writer who, incidentally,
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> > >> line, also the title of a famous short story by Delmore Schwartz, was
> > >> this: "In dreams begin responsibilities." Schulman maintained that
> > >> Yeats's words "resonate with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
> > >> people who have witnessed dramatic shifts in our relationship to power."
> > >> She meant by this that while gay people have won rights and respect in
> > >> various countries around the world, "these changes have given rise to a
> > >> nefarious phenomenon: the co-opting of white gay people by
> > >> anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim political forces in Western Europe and
> > >> Israel."
> > >> Schulman went on to express her revulsion at the enthusiasm of some
> > >> Dutch gays for the late Pim Fortuyn and for the very much alive Geert
> > >> Wilders, and at the fact that the English Defense League has over a
> > >> hundred gay members. She also took me on: "In Norway," she wrote,
> > >> "Anders Behring Breivik, the extremist who massacred 77 people in July,
> > >> cited Bruce Bawer, a gay American writer critical of Muslim immigration,
> > >> as an influence." (In fact, Breivik made it clear in his writings that
> > >> I was not an influence on him - he considered me too much of a
> > >> libertarian. But no matter.)
> > >> The "depictions of immigrants" by people like me and Wilders "as
> > >> 'homophobic fanatics,'" wrote Schulman, "opportunistically ignore the
> > >> existence of Muslim gays and their allies within their communities." On
> > >> the contrary, I and many other anti-jihadists have written extensively
> > >> about gay Muslims. What Schulman "opportunistically ignores" is that
> > >> gay Muslims in Western Europe tend to live in terror of being found out
> > >> by their families and communities. Their very lives are at risk. So
> > >> dire is their plight that until recently there was not a single "out"
> > >> gay Muslim in all of Norway, where I live. I am now personally
> > >> acquainted with the country's first openly gay male Muslim and its first
> > >> openly lesbian Muslim, and I can inform Schulman that their lives have
> > >> been made exceedingly difficult by the Muslim communities that Schulman
> > >> is so eager to defend.
> > >> To depict Muslims as antigay, Schulman further maintained, is to "render
> > >> invisible the role that fundamentalist Christians, the Roman Catholic
> > >> Church and Orthodox Jews play in perpetuating fear and even hatred of
> > >> gays." Yes, there's hostility to gay people all over the place. The
> > >> difference is that even the most famously gay-hating Christian on the
> > >> planet, Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps, doesn't call for the murder of
> > >> gay people and, as far as I know, has not killed any gays himself. By
> > >> contrast, sharia law prescribes the death penalty for homosexuality - a
> > >> punishment that has been carried out innumerable times by the
> > >> governments of several Islamic countries as well as by countless Muslim
> > >> families both in the Muslim world and in the West.
> > >> But does Schulman care about that? Apparently not. She is the kind of
> > >> leftist for whom ideology will always trump reality. What she is
> > >> exercised about is the fact that Israel is, according to her, marketing
> > >> itself as gay-friendly: Tel Aviv's tourism board, for example, is
> > >> spending about $90 million "to brand the city as 'an international gay
> > >> vacation destination.'" Also, Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.S. Congress
> > >> in May "that the Middle East was 'a region where women are stoned, gays
> > >> are hanged, Christians are persecuted.'"Every gay and lesbian person who
> > >> has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a
> > >> survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the
> > >> same challenges."
> > >>
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> > one's underwear.
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