Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Idea Exchange: Homosexuality is a disease, explains Ramdev" video.

I suggest that you should leave your religious addictions behind, and accept your homosexuality as being normal. I am heterosexual, and always knew that because I was not attracted to my own gender, and found the thought of having a relationship with another female repulsive, that homosexuals were born different, and I accepted the differences as being normal. Religious teaching gives human animals swelled heads. After 70 years of struggling with why the flamboyant stories didn't make any sense to me, I stopped believing. Tomorrow is my 82nd birthday ... if I don't die first. Since I left all those religious fairy tales behind, to believe (as did Stephen Hawking, before he died) that the universe always existed, I feel whole, just as I am. What a relief!!!
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@rihamashraf4493 Why would anyone want to change who they are, because you happen to believe that what they are ... is wrong? As a heterosexual, I am content in my own skin, and I want all others who are different than me, to be content in their own skins. I don't want others bullying me, so I don't bully others to be like me.
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@Niggasonic_Teenage_Warhead Thank you, and I also with you the best.
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@حذيفةتيراب Do you believe that homosexuality is bad?
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@remote6976 I don't find my system of belief at all depressing. If, as children, we were indoctrinated by the following information, rather than being taught that suffering for wicked souls exists in a supposed afterlife, we would not have any fear of death. From the book Medicine Madams and Mounties … Stories of a Yukon Doctor * 1933-1947 … Death is the final sleep … The Indians I met were used to death and dying. They saw it daily as they slaughtered and trapped animals for their livelihood. For them everything had its time, ending in death, and they could not understand our fear of dying. “Why do white people fear death?” they often asked me. “Nobody fears the onset of the unconsciousness called sleep yet you are afraid of the final sleep, death.”
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@fatimadzn What if your beliefs are, that a god exists that wants you to kill heretics? Do you think that you should still follow your beliefs?
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@rihamashraf4493 The more you study, the more you will learn that there is always more to learn. From the book … THE TALE OF THE DUELING NEUROSURGEONS … author … SAM KEAN … Temporal lobe lesions can flip people’s sexual orientations from gay to straight (or vice versa) or redirect their sexual appetites toward inappropriate things: common side effects of Kluver-Bucy include zoophilia, coprophilia, pedophilia, and – philias so idiosyncratic they don’t have names.
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@remote6976 I don't believe that bestiality is fair to the animals, because they aren't able to give their permission. If sex is consensual, it's none of my business who diddles whom.
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@remote6976 I was religious, in the sense that I believed in the existence of a creator. However, at 70 years of age, I changed my belief to agree with Stephen Hawking and Einstein, that the universe in one form or another probably always existed ... no creator involved ... and that suffering of all forms of life is natural. I'll be 83 tomorrow, if I make it, and I now believe that death of the body that I now inhabit, will put an end to thought, as the brain-cells completely die. And I'm fine with that system of belief. “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” Stephen Hawking
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@remote6976 Einstein was a Jew by ethnicity ONLY. From the book, “Ideas and Opinions,” by Albert Einstein. Nobody, certainly, will deny that the idea of the existence of an omnipotent, just and omnibeneficient personal God is able to accord man solace, help, and guidance; also, by virtue of its simplicity it is accessible to the most undeveloped mind. But, on the other hand, there are decisive weaknesses attached to this idea in itself, which have been painfully felt since the beginning of history. That is, if this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every thought, and every human aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?
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@remote6976 Albert Einstein became an Atheist before he died. From the book, “Ideas and Opinions,” by Albert Einstein, comes the following … Nobody, certainly, will deny that the idea of the existence of an omnipotent, just and omnibeneficient personal God is able to accord man solace, help, and guidance; also, by virtue of its simplicity it is accessible to the most undeveloped mind. But, on the other hand, there are decisive weaknesses attached to this idea in itself, which have been painfully felt since the beginning of history. That is, if this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every thought, and every human aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?
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@remote6976 As was I, Einstein was indoctrinated into religion as a child. As he grew older and studied science, he questioned his childhood teaching, and towards the end of his life, left all of those religious teachings behind as being nonsense, as did I.
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@remote6976 Isaac Newton lived in the 18th century, at a time when "scientists" had to claim to be religious, or they would be tortured and murdered, by the all-powerful hierarchies of the Catholic church. Einstein lived in the 20th century, when scientist could at last admit to being non-believers in the existence of a creator, without being tortured and murdered. Religion was, and still is, a very nasty "business."
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@remote6976 Many of the early "scientists" believed in the existence of a creator, because their so-called "science" was so archaic. As science progressed, it made more sense to many of those men and women, that the universe was never created, but rather always existed. Even some of the early scientists quit believing in the existence of a god. These men of ancient times, agreed with Stephen Hawking's theory ... . From the book … 2000 Years of Disbelief … author … James A. Haugt … “None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man; it has always been.”—Empedocles (495—435 B.C.E.), Greek philosopher and statesman (Noyes) … “The universe has been made neither by gods nor by men, but it has been, and is, and will be eternally.”—Heraclitus (Noyes) ... “The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the flaws that mar it”—Lucretius, ibid.
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@remote6976 Do you believe that it was a god that said that homosexuality is a sin ... or, do you believe that men made up that story that it was a god that stated homosexuality is a sin? It is YOUR choice of what you choose to believe.
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@remote6976 Einstein did believe in a god when he was young, because that was how he was taught to believe. But later, he did not believe what he was taught as a child. From the book, “Ideas and Opinions,” by Albert Einstein. Nobody, certainly, will deny that the idea of the existence of an omnipotent, just and omnibeneficient personal God is able to accord man solace, help, and guidance; also, by virtue of its simplicity it is accessible to the most undeveloped mind. But, on the other hand, there are decisive weaknesses attached to this idea in itself, which have been painfully felt since the beginning of history. That is, if this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every thought, and every human aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?
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@remote6976 Stephen Hawking and the No Boundary Proposal. "I still believe the universe has a beginning in real time, at the big bang. But there's another kind of time, imaginary time, at right angles to real time, in which the universe has no beginning or end." —Stephen Hawking Black Holes and Baby Universes
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@remote6976 When in 1927 the Catholic priest Georges Lemaître created the Big Bang theory, it followed that the Big Bang theory would be enmeshed with the idea that the universe was created by a god, as Stephen Hawking learned when he visited the pope. "In 1985, I attended a conference on cosmology at the Vatican in Rome. The gathering of scientists had an audience with Pope John Paul II. He told us that it was okay to study the workings of the universe, but we should not ask questions about its origin, for that was the work of God." Stephen Hawking
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@remote6976 Are you aware of The Clergy Project?" More than a few members of clergy are still preaching sermons to the "flocks," while they are undercover admitted Atheists. They are in fear of losing their incomes, their families, and their "friends." The following is one ex-minister that joined the Clergy Project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZTbD6Fno4
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@remote6976 I'm not a scientist, so I don't answer scientific questions, but I do believe the following. If a scientist is asked the question, “Do you believe that the universe was created,” and the scientist answers, “Yes,” that is not critical scientific thinking. That is “I accept as truth, what I was taught in my personal religion.”
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@remote6976 Near the end of his life, Einstein wrote an article about Spinoza's idea of a god. It did not satisfy those who wanted a simple answer to the question of whether or not Einstein believed in God. "The outcome of this doubt and befogged speculation about time and space is a cloak beneath which hides the ghastly apparition of atheism," Boston's Cardinal William Henry O'Connell said of the item. This public blast from a Cardinal prompted the noted Orthodox Jewish leader in New York, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, to send Einstein a very direct telegram: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid. 50 words." Einstein used only about half his allotted number of words. It became the most famous version of an answer he gave often: "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." From Time Magazine to Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9... ---That answer does not indicate that Einstein was "a believing Jew"..-- ---In this unique case, one could say a cardinal was right about something--- ---Einstein was a closet atheist who often held the closet door ajar.--- ---- Being an atheist in his time was a severe social and political handicap.----
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@remote6976 “It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.” ― Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein: The Human Side
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@remote6976 Following are Einstein's own words. From the book, “Ideas and Opinions,” by Albert Einstein, comes the following …. The Religious Spirit of Science … Mein Weltbild, Amstersam: Querido Verlag, 1934. You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds without a religious feeling of his own. But it is different from the religiosity of naïve man. For the latter, God is a being from whose care one hopes to benefit and whose punishment one fears; a sublimation of a feeling similar to that of a child for its father, a being to whom one stands, so to speak, in a personal relationship, however it may be deeply tinged with awe. But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him is every whit as necessary and determined as the past. There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of the natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.
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@remote6976 You can answer your own scientific questions, to your own satisfaction. After all, you know the answers ... don't you?
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@remote6976 You were the one that wanted to believe Einstein stayed religion until he died, which was not at all true.
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@remote6976 Believe whatever makes your day. We all do the same.
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@remote6976 Any person that believes the universe was created, is a theist. It's as simple as that. A creation implies that a creator exists.
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@remote6976 “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” Stephen Hawking
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@frosty7336 Do you believe that your supposed soul will be rewarded with eternal bliss in an afterlife, while evil, wicked souls of other humans will suffer eternal punishment on behalf of a judge-mental god? Yes ... or ... No?
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@remote6976 My science is very limited, so the only science in which I put my faith, is that I believe that the universe in one form or another always existed ... no creator involved ... and that suffering of all forms of life ... is natural. I can't prove that my system of belief is right, and you can't prove that it's wrong.
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@remote6976 I understand that you are trying to trick me into responding to your "scientific" questions, but I'm not going to play your game ... whatever that might be.
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