So here it is:
Websters:
love /lʌv/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[luhv] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, loved, lov·ing.
–noun
1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
2. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
3. sexual passion or desire.
4. a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
5. (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love?
6. a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour.
7. sexual intercourse; copulation.
8. (initial capital letter) a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid.
9. affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor.
10. strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything: her love of books.
11. the object or thing so liked: The theater was her great love.
12. the benevolent affection of God for His creatures, or the reverent affection due from them to God.
13. Chiefly Tennis. a score of zero; nothing.
14. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter L.
–verb (used with object)
15. to have love or affection for: All her pupils love her.
16. to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for (another person).
17. to have a strong liking for; take great pleasure in: to love music.
18. to need or require; benefit greatly from: Plants love sunlight.
19. to embrace and kiss (someone), as a lover.
20. to have sexual intercourse with.
–verb (used without object)
21. to have love or affection for another person; be in love.
—Verb phrase
22. love up, to hug and cuddle: She loves him up every chance she gets.
—Idioms
23. for love,
a. out of affection or liking; for pleasure.
b. without compensation; gratuitously: He took care of the poor for love.
24. for the love of, in consideration of; for the sake of: For the love of mercy, stop that noise.
25. in love, infused with or feeling deep affection or passion: a youth always in love.
26. in love with, feeling deep affection or passion for (a person, idea, occupation, etc.); enamored of: in love with the girl next door; in love with one's work.
27. make love,
a. to embrace and kiss as lovers.
b. to engage in sexual activity.
28. no love lost, dislike; animosity: There was no love lost between the two brothers.
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God's definition: 1 Corinthians 13
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
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My definition:
see above
Friday, October 31, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Would the real Thomas Jefferson please stand up?
What ever happened to The Declaration of Independence?
What was the point of that long-winded proclamation if not to state our most assured INDEPENDENCE from that which was considered "acceptable", "normal", "traditional" and "the way of things".
The men we consider to be our forefathers and founders of American democracy probably sat around playing hacky-sack with their wigs while a dunce drafted this literary drab.
It says ridiculous things repeatedly like "freedom" and "equality" and "unalienable rights".
Anarchy. That's what those words are. Straight up Anarchy.
Obviously the Declaration of Independence is no longer in effect or Today's democracy would honor little footnotes like: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever ANY Form of Government becomes DESTRUCTIVE of these Ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or to abolish it..."
It's obviously not very to the point so I can understand why it would be over-looked.
However, those of us who actually read the Deceleration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, those of us with a basic understanding of English diction...we would like to say: WE EXIST. And we exist under the same colors as the rest of The United States of America.
Jesus' epitaph did not read "p.s. gay's not included", nor did the Bill of rights say "gays exempt".
We are a nation dammit, a people of life and love. In a time of war we are a select few out to promote love, peace and the union of love and instead we seek to promote hate, judgment, prejudice and a ban on something as peaceful as marriage.
how can we be so blind?
so blind not to see that our ban on gay marriage, is the same as the KKK's ban on a free black man, hitlers ban on jews in his utopia, and societies ban on the working/voting woman.
Banning a free black man didnt stop Martin Luther King Jr or Rosa Parks, no infact it inspired the Civil Rights Movement. Hitler didnt stop the hope and impact of Einstein, Freud, or Anne Frank, no..he was defeated in World War II. Preventing a woman from voting and working as a man does didn't stop the success of the women's suffrage movement. Nor will banning people from marrying the ones they love be successful for long.
We will struggle during this war you, the prejudice-elite, have created in the new millenium where hate and judgement still run rampant. Hate spreading faster than any other cancer known to man.
Yes, we will suffer...but we will win. Just like those who lead the way before us.
Hope. Faith. Love. These three, but the greatest of these is Love.
...and it will be the ones you love to hate that show you what it means to really love.
Come on America, Declare your Independence.
What was the point of that long-winded proclamation if not to state our most assured INDEPENDENCE from that which was considered "acceptable", "normal", "traditional" and "the way of things".
The men we consider to be our forefathers and founders of American democracy probably sat around playing hacky-sack with their wigs while a dunce drafted this literary drab.
It says ridiculous things repeatedly like "freedom" and "equality" and "unalienable rights".
Anarchy. That's what those words are. Straight up Anarchy.
Obviously the Declaration of Independence is no longer in effect or Today's democracy would honor little footnotes like: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever ANY Form of Government becomes DESTRUCTIVE of these Ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or to abolish it..."
It's obviously not very to the point so I can understand why it would be over-looked.
However, those of us who actually read the Deceleration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, those of us with a basic understanding of English diction...we would like to say: WE EXIST. And we exist under the same colors as the rest of The United States of America.
Jesus' epitaph did not read "p.s. gay's not included", nor did the Bill of rights say "gays exempt".
We are a nation dammit, a people of life and love. In a time of war we are a select few out to promote love, peace and the union of love and instead we seek to promote hate, judgment, prejudice and a ban on something as peaceful as marriage.
how can we be so blind?
so blind not to see that our ban on gay marriage, is the same as the KKK's ban on a free black man, hitlers ban on jews in his utopia, and societies ban on the working/voting woman.
Banning a free black man didnt stop Martin Luther King Jr or Rosa Parks, no infact it inspired the Civil Rights Movement. Hitler didnt stop the hope and impact of Einstein, Freud, or Anne Frank, no..he was defeated in World War II. Preventing a woman from voting and working as a man does didn't stop the success of the women's suffrage movement. Nor will banning people from marrying the ones they love be successful for long.
We will struggle during this war you, the prejudice-elite, have created in the new millenium where hate and judgement still run rampant. Hate spreading faster than any other cancer known to man.
Yes, we will suffer...but we will win. Just like those who lead the way before us.
Hope. Faith. Love. These three, but the greatest of these is Love.
...and it will be the ones you love to hate that show you what it means to really love.
Come on America, Declare your Independence.
could I get the definition of family?
I have 2 straight parents. They married after 3 months of courtship in Connecticut while my father was in the Navy. 9 months later they had me...14 months later they had my sister and about 2 years after that they had the youngest of us.
Prior to my birth and as the result of a short-lived relationship my mom had with a man younger than she was i became "little sister" to my estranged half brother, where it is customary when meeting his kin or posse for them to greet me with "Oh, I didn't know he had a sister."
My father left when my youngest sister was 3 months old.
3 years of marriage, 3 kids, and 3 months of pre-nuptials lead to a bitter divorce, infidelity, and a life-long battle with depression for my mom.
How did my father fare? he married the woman he cheated with, adopted her 2 daughters and now lives in upper-class suburbia where he runs for political offices in his community.
So tell me, oh ye better educated, what IS family and wherever did you get your definition?
Skip ahead 17 years later, after a child and teen-hood of physical, sexual, emotional and mental abuse. I get diagnosed with menniers disease and lose my hearing because of so-called "stress", I miss a year of high school, I drop out, get my g.e.d., move out of the house, get arrested for allegedly being "a runaway", and somehow make it out of their alive without ever once turning to drugs, sex or alcohol. By the time I was 17 I had completed a year and a half of college course work and maintained a 3.8 grade point average, while also being the MVP for the soccer team. (My jersey number, ironically was 3...my mantra, now and forever being my holocaust branding).
I was, by all accounts, not typical.
My family was the cause for a lot of unnecessary pain in my life. Each person trying desperately to be what they're not. Whether my dad wasn't Christian enough, or my mom wasn't wild enough, my brother wasn't "legitimate" enough, or my sisters and i not collateral enough...
We all fell short.
What saved me from sex, high school partying, drugs, alcohol, and teen depression were my faith and the people I CONSIDER "family".
"My family" was made up of 3 kids who weren't afraid to exist. We found each other in the dark and made our way to the light, guided by our faith and our instinct of what it means to be alive. We were all emotionally drowning.
"My family" came from a past of cutting, abuse of every kind, suicide, masochism, self-loathing, and pain.
"My family" is in no way related to me, we don't share the same ancestry or bloodline. One of us is Gay, One of us is celibate, and One of us is straight and straight up lost.
And WE ARE A FAMILY. We three, are a unit. We share the same pain, the same faith, the same hope, the same love and the same God.
We have the same needs, the need for companionship, understanding, acceptance, patience, compassion, kindness, forgiveness, and unadulterated love. The need for God, the need for food, drink, sex, and complete and utter honesty.
We are by all accounts, made equal. And by all accounts are equally driven to seek out love wherever it is best found. Be it in God, man, woman, same sex, or opposite sex.
Being Gay is not to make up for what we didn't get as a child, being straight isn't an testament to a strong-loving home, and being celibate is not a result of rape or sexual abuse.
My part gay, part straight, part celibate family saved me from death. They saved my from a life of anger, resentment and hate. "My family" taught me love.
And because of THAT "family", I am finally able to heal with my own family.
Vote no on 8 not because you're against "Family" but because you're for a family that actually wants to be together.
Prior to my birth and as the result of a short-lived relationship my mom had with a man younger than she was i became "little sister" to my estranged half brother, where it is customary when meeting his kin or posse for them to greet me with "Oh, I didn't know he had a sister."
My father left when my youngest sister was 3 months old.
3 years of marriage, 3 kids, and 3 months of pre-nuptials lead to a bitter divorce, infidelity, and a life-long battle with depression for my mom.
How did my father fare? he married the woman he cheated with, adopted her 2 daughters and now lives in upper-class suburbia where he runs for political offices in his community.
So tell me, oh ye better educated, what IS family and wherever did you get your definition?
Skip ahead 17 years later, after a child and teen-hood of physical, sexual, emotional and mental abuse. I get diagnosed with menniers disease and lose my hearing because of so-called "stress", I miss a year of high school, I drop out, get my g.e.d., move out of the house, get arrested for allegedly being "a runaway", and somehow make it out of their alive without ever once turning to drugs, sex or alcohol. By the time I was 17 I had completed a year and a half of college course work and maintained a 3.8 grade point average, while also being the MVP for the soccer team. (My jersey number, ironically was 3...my mantra, now and forever being my holocaust branding).
I was, by all accounts, not typical.
My family was the cause for a lot of unnecessary pain in my life. Each person trying desperately to be what they're not. Whether my dad wasn't Christian enough, or my mom wasn't wild enough, my brother wasn't "legitimate" enough, or my sisters and i not collateral enough...
We all fell short.
What saved me from sex, high school partying, drugs, alcohol, and teen depression were my faith and the people I CONSIDER "family".
"My family" was made up of 3 kids who weren't afraid to exist. We found each other in the dark and made our way to the light, guided by our faith and our instinct of what it means to be alive. We were all emotionally drowning.
"My family" came from a past of cutting, abuse of every kind, suicide, masochism, self-loathing, and pain.
"My family" is in no way related to me, we don't share the same ancestry or bloodline. One of us is Gay, One of us is celibate, and One of us is straight and straight up lost.
And WE ARE A FAMILY. We three, are a unit. We share the same pain, the same faith, the same hope, the same love and the same God.
We have the same needs, the need for companionship, understanding, acceptance, patience, compassion, kindness, forgiveness, and unadulterated love. The need for God, the need for food, drink, sex, and complete and utter honesty.
We are by all accounts, made equal. And by all accounts are equally driven to seek out love wherever it is best found. Be it in God, man, woman, same sex, or opposite sex.
Being Gay is not to make up for what we didn't get as a child, being straight isn't an testament to a strong-loving home, and being celibate is not a result of rape or sexual abuse.
My part gay, part straight, part celibate family saved me from death. They saved my from a life of anger, resentment and hate. "My family" taught me love.
And because of THAT "family", I am finally able to heal with my own family.
Vote no on 8 not because you're against "Family" but because you're for a family that actually wants to be together.
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