Et bien, Bonjour Sire
Napoleon88 wrote:salut, beau marin
[...] you write [...] with a certain grandiloquence which wends itself through your posts [...]
That would be my Histrionic Personality Disorder conspiring with my Narcissist PD and clamoring for an audience. Silly, but till I grow a new personality, unavoidable I'm afraid.
Napoleon88 wrote:bringing [...] religion into this topic just derails it unnecessarily. She's a nice girl and I at least felt that the way you handled that could have been improved.
I will always speak my mind; as a positive atheist, religion is no sacred cow to me: it is just another idea in the market place of ideas, a market where you find good and bad ideas; religion is a bad idea, since, among other things, it breeds hypocricy and vice. The religion in question has as its spiritual head, a man who chose a bride of 12 to share his bed.
Therefore, my asking her what she thought about this could not be more central to the discussions and concerns which preoccupy most of the people in this forum!
The man whom she calls prophet is no such thing, but rather a man with lusts and desires, schemes and plans, virtues and vices, just like the rest of us. In fact, it seems that he had one drive, one part of his nature, in perfect accord with a lot of people on this forum, namely his preference for and delight in the pubescent female form. So, given that he is nothing to me but a man, why should I abstain from asking questions of her attitude to him, when I might ask this -without causing a ripple- of any other man or woman?
She declined to answer it, maintaining that I "should not bring religion into it". So I declined to further engage with her, ending by wishing her well.
I am unaware of having broken any forum rules. Therefore I do not see the need to speak of it further.
Napoleon88 wrote:That said, welcome to this haven of depravity lol. We're all fighting the same fight here. Good luck.
MJ
Thanks for the welcome. We all need a haven.
As for the contention that "we are all fighting the same fight", I'm afraid that I must disagree: for one thing, my sexual feelings are pretty much in recess due to certain health conditions from which I suffer, and, for another, the trajectory of my life and the luck I have had, and the trust and love I have found at times, have all combined to help me avoid winding up in prison, which just happens to be because I have never done anything for which I could be imprisoned. This is incidental to what concerns me most in life and what draws me to a group like this.
You see, I am not struggling against anything at all: I come here as a member of a persecuted minority, to be myself, to find temporary refuge, "a safe haven"; I am a complex being filled with all sorts of passions and ideas and opinions and feelings, not all of which is harmonized into a coherent whole, not by a long shot, but I am getting along okay.

Unfortunately, I am unacceptable to broader society even if dare to audibly whisper my heart's secret, fondest desire, that "love that dare not speak its name". I am not ashamed of this desire, not one bit! So I don't need to be nice: I don't need forgiveness, I don't need to be told I'm okay; I know that already and I don't have any sins on my conscience.
I'm not desperate and I'm not suicidal; sometimes I get a little lonely, naturally, so I seek places like this where I might find some common ground.
I am emphatically not here for personal growth or therapy, nor for advice per se, though if I hear or read something that makes sense I will peck at it, bower bird like, and see if fits into MY kalaidescope.
Finally, I am certainly not hear to be nice to people and to make friends, not primarily anyway. I'm just here to be myself and seek the experience of "herd warmth" from others who might be more or less on the same track on some key issues. If I connect, on a good day, with just one other forum participant, well and good; if I clash sometimes, that is inevitable: I am a passionate man, yet I hope I am mostly reasonable too.
Cheers,