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- From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
- Subject: Re: Morally good necessary possible sometimes possible reproductiveness
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:28:57 GMT
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- In article <BzMnzC.At9@umassd.edu>, pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman) writes:
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- > Assuming I have correctly read the convoluted "arguments" about
- >homosexuality correctly, Zeleny's opponents want to guide their actions with
- >emotion and Zeleny correctly identifies the resulting contradictions. Human
- >nature, with its biological heterosexuality, is missing as the needed context.
- >This bio. hetero. is a fact to be considered. Whatever one decides is the rat-
- >ional evaluation of BH, it must be, implicitly or explicitly, considered. This
- *>does mean that each sex act should be for reproduction.* It means that sex
- >exists only because there is such a fact as BH (with the potential for repro-
- >duction. With this as our meta. context, understanding and evaluating homo.
- >is now possible.
-
- I made a radical mistake. I meant: This does NOT mean that each sex act
- should be for reproduction.
- Also, emotions are psychosomatic responses to one's evaluations of one's
- knowledge of some existent. We indirectly choose emotions by the reasoning we
- do or avoid. There are no innate emotions since there are no innate ideas.
- Original Sin is false. Homo. should change their reasoning and values and act-
- ions and then emotions will change.
- Heterosexuals perceive their biological sexuality but homo. do not. Hetero.
- perceive their own biological sexuality but homo. feel and imagine the lack of
- perception of their biological sexuality. Sartre's "hole in being" comes to
- mind and his claim that absence is stronger(?) than presence. Not good philo-
- sophy but psychopathological. But we live in an irrational culture
- which encourages people to guide action by emotions. Emotions are not methods
- of knowledge.
-
- _Psychology of Self-Esteem_--Nathanial Branden
- "Inventing the Homosexual"-Marjorie Rosenberg, _Commentary_, Dec. 1987.
- _Function of Orgasm_-Wilhelm Reich; partially good
-
- As The Rolling Stones observed, "You're not really someone else."
- I looked at the end of the bar. The possibilities lurked within her.
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- "In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
- you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
- tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
- AYN RAND
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- Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASS.EDU>
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