i am really really sad. i have to tell you. i just thought there was no way the gay marriage ban would pass. i just absolutley can not believe that people who live on this planet together can be so hatefull and horrible to each other. i actually cried. i know im lame but this stuff really makes me loose faith in humanity. can someone tell me how this could happen. would someone who voted for this please resopond and tell me why you voted for it. you can even PM me if you want. i wont get mad at you i promise. i just want to know if there is a reason beside "i dont like gay people" or "the bible says gays are bad".
i normally have blinders on to the terrible things people do around the world. i cant even watch the news. i can not spend any amount of time pondering what is occouring in other countries. i have to tell myself people are all basicly good on the inside maybe they just dont know any better. maybe that guy sitting down while some old lady wth a cane stands was never taught to give up his seat. he cant really be THAT selfish and self absorbed. and maybe people really think its better to keep a dog in their posession, even if its starving while being chained to a tree in their back yard, than sending it to the pound where it might get put down. and maybe tomorrow people waring all over the world will realise that there really can be a peacefull resolutin to their problems and every one will set down their guns. i cant look at al this stuff and not want to crawl into bed and die because i am just one small tiny insignificant speck in the world and what can i do about it? politicians and government are corrupt, religion has been twisted to hate, and the world frankly is a bleak place. so i spend a good portion of my life in denial and am in the dark about alot of stuff on purpose because i quite litterally can not deal with or process the cruelty in the world.
and i really really thought that for once people would do the right and loving thing for other people. how can more love and more commitment be bad for anyone? would the same people who didnt want gay people to get married say black people and white people cant date? would they say handicapped people and non handicapped people cant get married? and not only that but this isnt a few religious nutbags! this is a MAJORITY of the people that voted. that means a higher percentage of people in this world hate and are cruel to each other than are loving and kind to each other. this is hard proof that no mattter what i tell myself about most people inthe world being good kind people, i am wrong. a majority of people are haters.
im gonna go crawl in a hole and die now.
i normally have blinders on to the terrible things people do around the world. i cant even watch the news. i can not spend any amount of time pondering what is occouring in other countries. i have to tell myself people are all basicly good on the inside maybe they just dont know any better. maybe that guy sitting down while some old lady wth a cane stands was never taught to give up his seat. he cant really be THAT selfish and self absorbed. and maybe people really think its better to keep a dog in their posession, even if its starving while being chained to a tree in their back yard, than sending it to the pound where it might get put down. and maybe tomorrow people waring all over the world will realise that there really can be a peacefull resolutin to their problems and every one will set down their guns. i cant look at al this stuff and not want to crawl into bed and die because i am just one small tiny insignificant speck in the world and what can i do about it? politicians and government are corrupt, religion has been twisted to hate, and the world frankly is a bleak place. so i spend a good portion of my life in denial and am in the dark about alot of stuff on purpose because i quite litterally can not deal with or process the cruelty in the world.
and i really really thought that for once people would do the right and loving thing for other people. how can more love and more commitment be bad for anyone? would the same people who didnt want gay people to get married say black people and white people cant date? would they say handicapped people and non handicapped people cant get married? and not only that but this isnt a few religious nutbags! this is a MAJORITY of the people that voted. that means a higher percentage of people in this world hate and are cruel to each other than are loving and kind to each other. this is hard proof that no mattter what i tell myself about most people inthe world being good kind people, i am wrong. a majority of people are haters.
im gonna go crawl in a hole and die now.
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crushed


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I'm really sad about all of the gay marriage type of things being passed.
And one thing that I keep hearing from people on my f-list is that they can't believe that these ridiculous things are passing. I can't believe it, but at the same time I know I am living in a nice little liberal bubble that exists on my f-list. My f-list is made up of awesome people that (mostly) share my same views, so its really hard to look out into the outside world and see that people aren't as tolerant. *giant sadface*
I feel the same way a lot of the time. The only thing we can do is keep being the best people we can be and keep loving as much as we can and vote every chance we get.
The same thing happened in my home state not so long ago and I was embarrassed and mortified, but not surprised. Some things are so ingrained in people, they don't even realize that there might be another way to live or another way to love unless by some miracle their eyes are opened.
I've been wallowing in my own hole this evening for a mulitude of reasons and now i'm really really sad thinking about poor puppies. If both of mine weren't finally cslm i'd give them great big hugs.
Look at your kitty and think of how wonderful she is and if she's in it, the world isn't that bad :D (a friend of mine said that after 9/11 about her cat. )
Yup. I'm in L.A. so that's what news I'm getting.
Crazy Florida people saw all of the signs (and trust me there were a TON) that made it all about marriage and people took it as such. Research has shown that the more information people got about #2 the less they liked it. Not enough people did their research on it, so that is why it passed.
*hugs*
My step-mother made me want to hit her the other day when she told me that she stopped watching what she referred to as "Gay's Anatomy" because of the current story line. Narrow minded people are one of the most frustrating types out there.
I'm sorry that Prop 8 passed. I didn't even know it had -- LA news is a bit far from New York -- and I'd just assumed it hadn't because, well, duh. It's stupid. Anybody I can kick to make you feel better, Pren? I have amazing kicking power. And I'm for hire. Like a kicking assassin. You get free kicking privileges. I may even rock out my awesome scarf while I kick people for you.
Or at all, actually.
I really want to see this clip now. Removing the fighting teeth from a llama? That's worth the price of the ticket on its own!! *writes down the blur of yarn line for future use*
can someone tell me how this could happen.
Well, this happened for 2 reasons:
1. The nutcases who go to those crazy black churches that won't let the children trick-or-treat because of the devil all turned out to vote for Obama. Also, the CA democratic party is heavily latino. You can't underestimate how pervasive the influence of the Catholic church is south of the border. I don't know if you've ever discussed homosexuality with someone hispanic with an accent (born in the US is a whole different story) but I've had many arguments about gay issues with such people, and in my experience, the women respond along the lines of, "that's just unnatural and disgusting," and the men react along the lines of "If I meet a homosexual, I will kill him." And no, I'm not remotely joking, I've heard that response more than once.
2. People are highly susceptible to propaganda, and they go a little bonkers whenever you argue "for the children," so the "gay porn will be required curriculum in public schools at the kindergarten level if Prop 8 doesn't pass" ads were highly effective.
So says the Bible Belt.
Amen and Amen.
Of course Harry Potter leads to the same death and destruction as well...