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Sunday 23 November 2008
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Anonymous commenters - please add a signature (doesn't have to be your real name) on each post of yours. Anne O'Namus, Norm D. Ploom, Angry from Kent, Demosthenes, or even your real initials, it doesn't matter.
Commenters are expected to be polite to each other, but the same standard doesn't apply to comments regarding me.
Australian commenters are very very strongly advised to publish anonymously. Sydney alone has more defamation actions than the entire USA and UK. Nearly double that of the UK in fact.
As Google does not reliably inform me that a comment has been posted, and I have no control over first publication, I assert that all comments are innocently disseminated under the NSW DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 32 and similar acts.
that was...bitchin'
ReplyDeletehttp://narcissists-suck.blogspot.com/2008/11/pathological-envy-vs-thanksgiving.html
ReplyDeleteYou know, wanting to change your sex can be seen as ingratitude for the sex God has already given you. I've read you should consider your birth sex as a gift from God, which only the wicked would turn aside.
Yes, well it could be seen as that. Except for one tiny little detail.
ReplyDeleteYou see, God (if He exists) sees fit to change the birth sex of a few people. People like, oh, me for example.
And for that, I am truly and eternally grateful.
The whole point about narcissism is that it involves consistent ingratitude and self-centeredness. That's not consistent with the quiet activism that many TS and IS people display, trying to help others.
So I'd say the whole thesis is disproven, and obviously so. Exploded completely, in fact. This would then raise the question of why some people continue to hold that view, people who try to demean and even demonise others who have been persecuted as "wicked", when it's so blatantly untrue.
That comes under the heading "bearing false witness". Propagating known falsehoods out of malice, or, to be more charitable, because if they ever had to admit they were wrong, they'd have to take on an enormous burden of well-deserved guilt. It's because their consciences are disturbed that they have to re-double their efforts to malign those they persecute, in order to hide their shame from themselves.
That's all too human.
Yay!
ReplyDeleteAwesome, Zoe!
You know, wanting to change your sex can be seen as ingratitude for the sex God has already given you. I've read you should consider your birth sex as a gift from God, which only the wicked would turn aside.
ReplyDeleteTell that to the fishes.
The Don
Let's look at the logic. The assumption that "God made me exactly the way He wants me" falls apart on the most cursory examination. If you're nearsighted, do you wear glasses, or do you accept that God made you that way? Have you moved from the town where you were born? Do you wear clothes? When you had appendicitis or a kidney stone or cancer or flu, did you go for treatment? Have you gone on a diet, lost a few pounds? Exercised? Trimmed your hair, beard, fingernails? When the man blind from birth asked Our Lord for his sight, was the reply "Sorry, God made you that way, you'll just have to cope with it"?
ReplyDeleteIn addition to being illogical, this argument violates the Commandment "Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord in vain"--which means "Do not apply God's name to lend weight to your own claim." If God didn't say it, don't say that He did.
Well, there is nothing wrong with being a boy or a girl.
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