(originallly posted on my AFF blog)
I believe that one gift I have, is that I am able to see multiple points of view more readily than other people. Is it something I acquired, or is it something I was born with? I don’t know the answer to that. I didn’t even entirely understand it before, but recently it was brought to light. Again, one of the things I learned since I became a manager. And again, it’s not such a great thing to learn.
That probably sounds strange. It’s a gift, right? Well like any gift, I think there’s a bit of curse attached. You see, it sometimes makes it difficult to find how I feel in it all. You’d be amazed how difficult it is, to sort out your own opinion, when you see so much in all sides of the argument. I have to weight things quite carefully sometimes. And I honestly wonder, if that isn’t something else important I’ve learned about myself. I would never be so crass as to refer to my ability as a learning disability, but I hope no one will take offense at developmental impediment. And the development that was impeded? I honestly don’t know that I have good language for this, so forgive me if I walk around it a bit. Lack of understanding of oneself, lack of ability to communicate oratorically (no, I didn’t say orally, get your heads out of the gutter), difficulty in finding a long standing social circle, and lack of accepting of the value of one’s own opinion.
Ok, that sounds really sad, and more than a bit pathetic. Don’t be alarmed. It was just bits and pieces of each, that I realized are developing more slowly than one might expect. But here’s the really interesting bit, I see more and more people, every day, who seem to share a similar affliction. It seems more and more do I pass similarly forming faces. Grown men and women who just can’t quite figure out what they’re doing yet, but they know it’s on the top of their tongue. I see them, and I have hope, that someone is going to finally say or do something, that is going to make us understand our place in this world, and we won’t feel so bad, that it took us so long, to realize how important we will be to the future. Grandiose? Probably sounds like it, but if you see them too, or you are one of them, you know what I mean, don’t you? There are just so many of us, and you know it’s only going to take one little thing, and things will change quite drastically. Of course, the wrong thing could lead to disaster. If you’ve seen The Mist, you know what I mean.
And please, don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking the folks who already got it together. But don’t mistake who those people are. The fanatical anythings, as I like to call them, are just more lost than us, not more found than the truly remarkable folks. Who are the remarkable folks? They have included, but were not limited to; George Carlin, Robin williams, Richard Feynman, Lenny Bruce, Martin Luther King Jr., Susan Sarandon, Solon (look him up), Penn Gillette and Teller (no, he does not have a first name anymore 
), Kim Gandy, Bill Gates (hate him I might, but he’s got his shit together), John Lennon, Leon Lederman, Lorna Brett Howard, and the entirety of Monty Python.
You might be surprised I didn’t mention Sam Kinison, or Andy Coffman. These are people I believe were on the precipice. I believe these are examples of people who were truly waking up, and didn’t make it through before the passed on. Bobcat Goldwaith made it, but he got the shit kicked out of him before he was through. Donald Trump is, incidentally, one of the remarkable. However, he has chosen to use his knowledge for evil, instead of good. For my geek friends, he’s somewhere between a G’oald and a Ori. While Kevin Smith is somewhere between an Tok’ra and an Alteran. Kevin doesn’t think he’s one of the remarkable people. He thinks he’s as lost the rest of us. Something tells me the illusion is wearing off quickly.
So what’s my point? Damn, I forgot. Just kidding. 
Does it sound passive to say I feel like my ability to understand different points of view affects my ability to be as fully formed as these remarkable people? No, I don’t believe that, and here’s why. All my life I’ve absorbed as much information as I can and so many subjects it would make most of your heads spin. Because of my ability, I have a deep-seated need to learn more and gather as many opinions as I can. I even took the time to watch the Scientology video of Tom Cruise, to try to learn more about it, so perhaps I can understand why their people subscribe to it. Ok, admittedly, bad call. I understood even less then. Honestly, wtf was all that crap about only a Scientologist being able to help at the scene of an accident? What is that boy smoking? And that just goes to show you, if I can’t see any sense in their point of view… I’m just saying. 
I think that my ability makes me strive to be one of the remarkable. And I think that alone makes it ok that it’s taking me longer than some to find the piece of information that will finally remove the haze from in front of my eyes. So, I’ll keep looking. And to prevent onset of Liberal Fatigue (see the onion.com), I’ll watch some more Penn & Teller: Bullshit. It’s educational and fun!
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Okay, to start off, I am not saying that homosexuality is wrong. I am simply, for the sake of argument, siding with those who believes homosexuality to be wrong. On this thread, I would like to focus on the PIB (Polgamy, Incest, Bestiality) Argument If homosexuality is morally right, then polygamy, incest, and bestiality is morally right. By letting homosexuality become legal, we would have no choice but to let polygamy, incest, and bestiality be legal.
Clearly, since this post has nothing to do with homosexuality, so this comment is either an attempt at a site link or applied to the wrong post. So, just to be safe, I removed the commenter’s site link. But in case this is a legitimate thought from this person, I felt their comment merited response…
If you believe anything you wrote, you are a moron. First of all, homosexuality bears no resemblance nor connection to Polygamy, Incest or Bestiality. Second, the last two are illegal because they can cause harm to someone else. Incest usually involves a child (or someone otherwise unable to legally give consent). It also can lead to the birth of a highly deformed and disadvantaged child. Incest is against the law because it often hurts someone. Bestiality involves sex with an animal, which by definition cannot give consent.
Sex between consenting adults, whether they are the same gender or not, should be no one’s business but those two individuals. And arguments that compare it’s ‘morality’ to things like Bestiality are, at best, a joke. At worst, they are insulting and degrading to millions of individuals, whether they are straight or gay. I’m sure as hell insulted, and I’ve never even kissed a girl Katy Perry style.
As for Polygamy, it should be legal. No one has any business legislating how many people you can be in love with, and form a life with, at a time. There should be strict rules, to prevent someone from taking a second (or more) spouse without knowledge of the existing spouse(s). Also, there should be laws that prevent anyone from being forced to enter into a group marriage (for those nut-job compound guys). But, beyond that, we have no right to enforce a ruling on what constitutes a happy and fulfilling family for two, three or more people. And for every ‘happy nuclear’ family unit you can point out, I can point out an ‘non-traditional family’ unit that’s equally happy.