• Members of the previous forum can retrieve their temporary password here, (login and check your PM).

Homosexuality and the Nexus

Migrated topic.
lyserge

lyserge

polyfather anomalous
I am a highly spiritual male without any sexual feelings towards any men. I'd like to be bisexual, but it's really not something I can just decide on... I think you do have some interesting points, but I am not sure I agree with them. If you want to create a poll, press edit on your post and to the left above the field you type in your message. You should see a yellow link with the text "Create Poll". :)

With love,
Evening Glory
 
Interesting idea

I've been captivated by spiritual and psychedelic ideas from a young age on...

also, I'm a heterosexual male. BUT I would definitely consider myself in the "spiritual/religious/cultural reproducer" category...strange? no

people are different
 
I just posted on the "Women & Respect" thread about this topic, and SB suggested I create a new thread, so here goes.

I've been thinking of starting a similar thread regarding homosexuals at the Nexus. There's a good deal of connection between homosexuality - or to be more inclusive let's say non-heterosexuality - and the procreation of spiritual and mystical traditions - for example, the "two-spirited" people in Native American traditions, Rumi, Walt Whitman, and the list goes on. About a year ago I came across a convincing argument from (I believe) religious 'scholar' Jeffrey Kripal to the effect that non-heterosexuality is at least in part an evolutionary trait that's come about to preserve not only cultural norms but that also allows a significant minority of the population to devote themselves to spiritual/mystical paths without being biologically distracted with creating or supporting a family. Homosexuality, in this view, far from a "sinful" way of being, is in fact essential to the preservation of the religious and spiritual life in society.

All of this leads me to suspect that a solid minority of Nexus members are either females or non-heterosexual males; those who devote themselves to the exploration of Hyperspace and/or their own minds probably belong, more often than not, to a "spiritual/religious/cultural reproducer" category. I hope to get some data with a poll, and also hope to get some other perspectives on the issue. Anyone here have any thoughts?


Edit: also does anyone know how I can create a poll? The search engine yielded no help...
Oxygenation: Sipping the Mind of G/d; B-J; Prana; Chi; Transcendent Living Fire Burns Away Toxin
 
۩ said:
What about transexuals? Is that what the last one's for?
Click to expand...

Sure, hopefully anyone who chooses that last one will feel free to explain. I think the more one becomes aware of the potential fluidity of gender and sexuality, the more fluid they become. Labels, like language, should be used as tools, otherwise they're mere self-limiting forms.
 
The starter of the thread did for some reason delete his post, so I have closed this thread. Perhaps he will create a new thread with a poll.
 
Ok, stupid me. I think I accidently removed the topic and not a redundant post. In doing so the forum software completely removed the poll including the question and the choices. I can revert the topic deletion but not the Poll deletion.

I can't remember the question and the choices anymore, if someone can please make a new thread with the correct poll question+choices then I'm much delighted (as will the original topic starter I guess).


Kind regards,

The Traveler
 
Back
Top Bottom