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Biblethumpers . . . most of whom can be found at Bible camp spanking the monkey or beating around the bush . . . have tried everything they can to ruin it for everyone else.
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Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
Mar 13, 2014, 1:31:54 PM3/13/14
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These people are sick.
http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/porn-and-masturbation-stopped-religious-right?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark
Masturbation—fapping, onanism, pocket pool, the solitary vice—has
driven religious people nuts since St. Augustine. The emergence of
Internet porn has re-occasioned a moral freakout over masturbation,
driving major religious organizations, fringe churches, pious
universities and the odd freelancer to catalyze anti-masturbation
movements. From websites to T-shirts to hands-to-yourself retreats,
these are the most ridiculous attempts to get people to keep their
hands to themselves.
1. BYU’s amazing masturbation-as-war film.
Masturbation is back in the news after a BYU video went viral in
February for being perhaps the most over-the-top attempt to stop
masturbation in history.
The video, titled Wounded on the Battlefield, sprung from the words of
Brigham Young University president Kim Clark, who, in describing a
young man so enthralled by pornography he even stops going to church,
called him “spiritually wounded on the battlefield of the Great War.”
Alas, the filmmakers took Clark’s metaphor about as literally as
possible. In an extended Saving Private Ryan-esque sequence, the film
dramatizes the self-lover as a fatigued soldier being abandoned by his
fellow infantryman in a jungle warzone. "The enemy whispers 'Don’t get
involved, it’s not your problem,’” Clark intones as the soldiers flee
the crackling gunfire. “Brothers and sisters, don't leave the wounded
on the battlefield."
2. Jehovah’s Witnesses’ anti-masturbation video (now with more R
Kelly).
Mormons aren’t the only ones taking advantage of YouTube to spread the
anti-masturbatory message. The Jehovah’s Witnesses released a sign
language video in 2012 warning of its evils. (The sign for jacking off
is…well, it’s exactly what you think it is.)
“Maybe they feel there’s nothing wrong with it,” the man in the video
signs. “They’re wrong! Jehovah is watching and he is disgusted.”
Jehovah wasn’t the only one watching. The video was quickly redubbed
with 50 Cent and R Kelly.
3. Passion For Christ “ex-masturbator” T-shirts.
Are YouTube videos too high-tech? If you still have a dialup
connection, the people at Passion for Christ Movement (P4CM) designed
the “Ex-Masturbator” shirt that allows you to declare your impulse
control to everyone you meet. (Also available in "Ex-Fornicator,"
"Ex-Diva," "Ex-Slave," "Ex-Atheist," and "Ex-Hypocrite” flavors.)
“We pray that you will join us in breaking the silence on an issue
that has stayed silent for too long,” their website states. “Be the
first to boldly rock your Ex-Masturbator shirt and let’s change the
world baby!”
4. The Vatican goes after nuns on a bus.
Sister Margaret Farley‘s book Just Love: A Framework for Christian
Sexual Ethics stirred up the Vatican (six years after it was
published) when the church officially decided in 2012 that her lax
stance on masturbation portended grave harm to the faithful.
While Farley wrote that masturbation “posed no moral questions,” the
Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith held that it was an
“intrinsically and gravely disordered action.” (They also found
homosexuality to be “intrinsically disordered”; the connection between
masturbation and homosexuality is a common one by moral crusaders.)
The Church ended up accusing Farley and her fellow “Nuns on a Bus” of
encouraging “doctrinal confusion.”
But whereas the Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses worried about
masturbation’s effects on the sinner, the Church worried about its
effects on the Church. "This idea that having this Second Vatican
Council and pronouncing that there's this amorphous spirit that gives
us license to pretty much throw the baby out with the bath water so to
speak when it comes to Catholic doctrine, it's simply wrong,” one
Catholic proponent cried.
4. Mark Driscoll warns masturbation can lead to homosexuality.
Mark Driscoll, whose Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA uses tattoos and
DVDs of Fight Club to mask their retrograde beliefs, made headlines a
couple years ago when his anti-masturbation tome Porn-Again Christian:
A Frank Discussion On Pornography and Masturbation explicitly tied
masturbation to homosexuality. The e-book warns:
"Masturbation can be a form of homosexuality because it is a sexual
act that does not involve a woman. If a man were to masturbate while
engaged in other forms of sexual intimacy with his wife then he would
not be doing so in a homosexual way. However, any man who does so
without his wife in the room is bordering on homosexuality activity,
particularly if he's watching himself in a mirror and being turned on
by his own male body."
Driscoll’s concern is entirely for the heterosexual male, who risks,
through the haste masturbation requires in order not to be caught,
becoming a “notorious minute-man who will not be well skilled in the
self-control necessary to satisfy a wife.”
If you do feel tempted, never fear: Driscoll says the Bible permits
masturbation if one is on, say, a business trip, but only if you use
pictures of your own wife. He also warns caution when using
“technology,” lest one “end up an oddity of the world-wide web.”
Alas, after the otherwise unknown Driscoll and his dubius e-book were
discovered, that’s exactly what happened to him.
6. Faithful and True / XXXChurch.
Many contemporary attempts at curbing masturbation have left the fire
and brimstone behind and instead adopted the rhetoric of rehab. When
you go to Faithful and True, a 16-week rehabilitation course, you
won’t just get Biblical scripture quoted at you (though that’ll
definitely happen), you'll also learn to become “sober” from your
masturbation “addiction.”
The rhetoric of addiction has been a long time in coming, says Craig
Gross, a California pastor who helped found XXXChurch.com. (The URL
was intentionally designed to look like a porn site, hoping to snag
addicts on the prowl.)
“Ten years ago, when I wanted to bring the church up to date, everyone
was like, ‘This won’t work. People will be confused about what you’re
doing,’” Gross told CNN. “It was controversial at the time, but the
church is always behind the times. We should have had a XXXChurch.com
in the late 1990s if we really wanted to get ahead of this problem.”
It worked: XXXChurch has grown to millions of clicks, and helps
organize some of the widest-reaching campaigns, including a few
involving NFL players. It also crashes porn shows, handing out Bibles
and “tak[ing] love into places where most wouldn’t expect to find it.”
The site even has its own masturbation detection service that emails a
sponsor-type person whenever you access a porn site—not, presumably,
XXXChurch.
7. The Serenellians.
Not everyone thinks this openness about masturbation and porn is
healthy. In 2002, a Catholic apostolate called the Serenellians (he
was a man who killed a saint out of lust) founded Pornnomore.com,
which aims to help masturbators conquer their habit. But founder and
recovering porn addict Paul Rasvage said the problem is less that
nobody in the church will talk about masturbation so much as priests
and pastors are too quick to dismiss the action “normal” or “nothing
to worry about.”
Rasvage aims to change that. His apostolate boasts a website, a
workbook of spiritual counsel, and downloadable writings of saints
advising against lust. “Just trying to stop the illicit material is
not good,” Rasvage said. “You have to deal with the disordered
desires, the root cause.”
8. Dirty Girls Ministries.
Most of these groups cater strictly to men. What about women addicted
to masturbating? For them, there’s Dirty Girls Ministries, a
female-only evangelical masturbation and porn recovery group started
by Kansas resident Crystal Renaud.
“You’d be surprised at how many women—women in your own lives—are
hiding this deep, dark, and dirty secret,” Renaud likes to preach at
local churches, warning that masturbation, “like drugs and alcohol, so
many things that feel good in a short amount of time can end up
hurting you.”
She follows the addiction metaphor to the end of the line. Renaud, who
says she discovered masturbation at the age of 10 and overcame it at
Bible camp in her teens, helps girls, some as young as 11, get “sober”
by forbidding anything remotely sexual, even suggestive television
shows, and through website blocking devices.
“When you stop masturbating or stop looking at porn, your body
actually goes through withdrawal,” she said. “It’s intense.”
It may be intense, but at least in Renaud’s group it’s cheap. No
Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction, the book Renaud uses in
her rehabilitation sessions, comes from the Bethesda Workshops, a
hifalutin' Nashville rehab clinic for masturbation and other issues of
sexual deviancy that runs $1,400 a stay.
9. NoFap.com presents: fapstronauts.
Rehab doesn’t just occur at getaways. A Reddit subcommunity called
NoFap, started by young web developer Alexander Rhodes after he read a
study claiming that refraining from masturbation increases
testosterone levels, quickly grew into NoFap.com, a place for porn and
masturbation addicts to meet, discuss challenges and overcome their
slavish habits. The site has grown to 65,000 members, and though
Rhodes is an atheist, Christians have flocked to his site.
Those who join are known as fapstronauts, and the Christian Post found
Christians of every stripe signing up.
“Some Fapstronauts are here to improve their interpersonal
relationships, whether it be for a marriage, a relationship, or single
life,” Rhodes said. “For others, it is simply a challenge of
willpower—to seize control of your sexuality and turn it into
superpowers. There are many, many different reasons to join but we're
all on NoFap with one goal—to help each other abstain from PMO
(porn/masturbation/orgasm)."
About those superpowers: users credit the site with “dramatic
increases in social confidence, energy levels, concentration levels,
mental acuity, motivation, self-esteem, emotional stability,
happiness, sexual prowess, and attractiveness to the opposite sex.”
That’s a lot of activity for people who are online most of the
time—the very thing all these groups were supposed to fix.
------------------
The RepubliKlan Party
is nuttier than
a Porta-Potty
at a peanut festival.
http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/porn-and-masturbation-stopped-religious-right?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark
Masturbation—fapping, onanism, pocket pool, the solitary vice—has
driven religious people nuts since St. Augustine. The emergence of
Internet porn has re-occasioned a moral freakout over masturbation,
driving major religious organizations, fringe churches, pious
universities and the odd freelancer to catalyze anti-masturbation
movements. From websites to T-shirts to hands-to-yourself retreats,
these are the most ridiculous attempts to get people to keep their
hands to themselves.
1. BYU’s amazing masturbation-as-war film.
Masturbation is back in the news after a BYU video went viral in
February for being perhaps the most over-the-top attempt to stop
masturbation in history.
The video, titled Wounded on the Battlefield, sprung from the words of
Brigham Young University president Kim Clark, who, in describing a
young man so enthralled by pornography he even stops going to church,
called him “spiritually wounded on the battlefield of the Great War.”
Alas, the filmmakers took Clark’s metaphor about as literally as
possible. In an extended Saving Private Ryan-esque sequence, the film
dramatizes the self-lover as a fatigued soldier being abandoned by his
fellow infantryman in a jungle warzone. "The enemy whispers 'Don’t get
involved, it’s not your problem,’” Clark intones as the soldiers flee
the crackling gunfire. “Brothers and sisters, don't leave the wounded
on the battlefield."
2. Jehovah’s Witnesses’ anti-masturbation video (now with more R
Kelly).
Mormons aren’t the only ones taking advantage of YouTube to spread the
anti-masturbatory message. The Jehovah’s Witnesses released a sign
language video in 2012 warning of its evils. (The sign for jacking off
is…well, it’s exactly what you think it is.)
“Maybe they feel there’s nothing wrong with it,” the man in the video
signs. “They’re wrong! Jehovah is watching and he is disgusted.”
Jehovah wasn’t the only one watching. The video was quickly redubbed
with 50 Cent and R Kelly.
3. Passion For Christ “ex-masturbator” T-shirts.
Are YouTube videos too high-tech? If you still have a dialup
connection, the people at Passion for Christ Movement (P4CM) designed
the “Ex-Masturbator” shirt that allows you to declare your impulse
control to everyone you meet. (Also available in "Ex-Fornicator,"
"Ex-Diva," "Ex-Slave," "Ex-Atheist," and "Ex-Hypocrite” flavors.)
“We pray that you will join us in breaking the silence on an issue
that has stayed silent for too long,” their website states. “Be the
first to boldly rock your Ex-Masturbator shirt and let’s change the
world baby!”
4. The Vatican goes after nuns on a bus.
Sister Margaret Farley‘s book Just Love: A Framework for Christian
Sexual Ethics stirred up the Vatican (six years after it was
published) when the church officially decided in 2012 that her lax
stance on masturbation portended grave harm to the faithful.
While Farley wrote that masturbation “posed no moral questions,” the
Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith held that it was an
“intrinsically and gravely disordered action.” (They also found
homosexuality to be “intrinsically disordered”; the connection between
masturbation and homosexuality is a common one by moral crusaders.)
The Church ended up accusing Farley and her fellow “Nuns on a Bus” of
encouraging “doctrinal confusion.”
But whereas the Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses worried about
masturbation’s effects on the sinner, the Church worried about its
effects on the Church. "This idea that having this Second Vatican
Council and pronouncing that there's this amorphous spirit that gives
us license to pretty much throw the baby out with the bath water so to
speak when it comes to Catholic doctrine, it's simply wrong,” one
Catholic proponent cried.
4. Mark Driscoll warns masturbation can lead to homosexuality.
Mark Driscoll, whose Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA uses tattoos and
DVDs of Fight Club to mask their retrograde beliefs, made headlines a
couple years ago when his anti-masturbation tome Porn-Again Christian:
A Frank Discussion On Pornography and Masturbation explicitly tied
masturbation to homosexuality. The e-book warns:
"Masturbation can be a form of homosexuality because it is a sexual
act that does not involve a woman. If a man were to masturbate while
engaged in other forms of sexual intimacy with his wife then he would
not be doing so in a homosexual way. However, any man who does so
without his wife in the room is bordering on homosexuality activity,
particularly if he's watching himself in a mirror and being turned on
by his own male body."
Driscoll’s concern is entirely for the heterosexual male, who risks,
through the haste masturbation requires in order not to be caught,
becoming a “notorious minute-man who will not be well skilled in the
self-control necessary to satisfy a wife.”
If you do feel tempted, never fear: Driscoll says the Bible permits
masturbation if one is on, say, a business trip, but only if you use
pictures of your own wife. He also warns caution when using
“technology,” lest one “end up an oddity of the world-wide web.”
Alas, after the otherwise unknown Driscoll and his dubius e-book were
discovered, that’s exactly what happened to him.
6. Faithful and True / XXXChurch.
Many contemporary attempts at curbing masturbation have left the fire
and brimstone behind and instead adopted the rhetoric of rehab. When
you go to Faithful and True, a 16-week rehabilitation course, you
won’t just get Biblical scripture quoted at you (though that’ll
definitely happen), you'll also learn to become “sober” from your
masturbation “addiction.”
The rhetoric of addiction has been a long time in coming, says Craig
Gross, a California pastor who helped found XXXChurch.com. (The URL
was intentionally designed to look like a porn site, hoping to snag
addicts on the prowl.)
“Ten years ago, when I wanted to bring the church up to date, everyone
was like, ‘This won’t work. People will be confused about what you’re
doing,’” Gross told CNN. “It was controversial at the time, but the
church is always behind the times. We should have had a XXXChurch.com
in the late 1990s if we really wanted to get ahead of this problem.”
It worked: XXXChurch has grown to millions of clicks, and helps
organize some of the widest-reaching campaigns, including a few
involving NFL players. It also crashes porn shows, handing out Bibles
and “tak[ing] love into places where most wouldn’t expect to find it.”
The site even has its own masturbation detection service that emails a
sponsor-type person whenever you access a porn site—not, presumably,
XXXChurch.
7. The Serenellians.
Not everyone thinks this openness about masturbation and porn is
healthy. In 2002, a Catholic apostolate called the Serenellians (he
was a man who killed a saint out of lust) founded Pornnomore.com,
which aims to help masturbators conquer their habit. But founder and
recovering porn addict Paul Rasvage said the problem is less that
nobody in the church will talk about masturbation so much as priests
and pastors are too quick to dismiss the action “normal” or “nothing
to worry about.”
Rasvage aims to change that. His apostolate boasts a website, a
workbook of spiritual counsel, and downloadable writings of saints
advising against lust. “Just trying to stop the illicit material is
not good,” Rasvage said. “You have to deal with the disordered
desires, the root cause.”
8. Dirty Girls Ministries.
Most of these groups cater strictly to men. What about women addicted
to masturbating? For them, there’s Dirty Girls Ministries, a
female-only evangelical masturbation and porn recovery group started
by Kansas resident Crystal Renaud.
“You’d be surprised at how many women—women in your own lives—are
hiding this deep, dark, and dirty secret,” Renaud likes to preach at
local churches, warning that masturbation, “like drugs and alcohol, so
many things that feel good in a short amount of time can end up
hurting you.”
She follows the addiction metaphor to the end of the line. Renaud, who
says she discovered masturbation at the age of 10 and overcame it at
Bible camp in her teens, helps girls, some as young as 11, get “sober”
by forbidding anything remotely sexual, even suggestive television
shows, and through website blocking devices.
“When you stop masturbating or stop looking at porn, your body
actually goes through withdrawal,” she said. “It’s intense.”
It may be intense, but at least in Renaud’s group it’s cheap. No
Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction, the book Renaud uses in
her rehabilitation sessions, comes from the Bethesda Workshops, a
hifalutin' Nashville rehab clinic for masturbation and other issues of
sexual deviancy that runs $1,400 a stay.
9. NoFap.com presents: fapstronauts.
Rehab doesn’t just occur at getaways. A Reddit subcommunity called
NoFap, started by young web developer Alexander Rhodes after he read a
study claiming that refraining from masturbation increases
testosterone levels, quickly grew into NoFap.com, a place for porn and
masturbation addicts to meet, discuss challenges and overcome their
slavish habits. The site has grown to 65,000 members, and though
Rhodes is an atheist, Christians have flocked to his site.
Those who join are known as fapstronauts, and the Christian Post found
Christians of every stripe signing up.
“Some Fapstronauts are here to improve their interpersonal
relationships, whether it be for a marriage, a relationship, or single
life,” Rhodes said. “For others, it is simply a challenge of
willpower—to seize control of your sexuality and turn it into
superpowers. There are many, many different reasons to join but we're
all on NoFap with one goal—to help each other abstain from PMO
(porn/masturbation/orgasm)."
About those superpowers: users credit the site with “dramatic
increases in social confidence, energy levels, concentration levels,
mental acuity, motivation, self-esteem, emotional stability,
happiness, sexual prowess, and attractiveness to the opposite sex.”
That’s a lot of activity for people who are online most of the
time—the very thing all these groups were supposed to fix.
------------------
The RepubliKlan Party
is nuttier than
a Porta-Potty
at a peanut festival.
Carina Griffis
Mar 13, 2014, 8:33:25 PM3/13/14
to
'Lickin' Ass and Fakin' Military Service' is a Proven Fraud, a Proven
Liar, a Proven Thief, and recently a Proven Malicious Poster. She is
the most prolific liar in this newsgroup and also the most prolific
thief of other's writings. She is also a Stolen Valor stain on
America.
'Lickin' Ass and Fakin' Military Service' IS the Democratic Party in
America. She is an admitted election official in VA. This is proof
positive that DemocRATs are the party of Liars, Frauds & Thieves.
Note that when you reply to a Proven Liar you encourage them to
continue lying.
1/14 Update - 'Lickin' Ass and Fakin' Military Service' began posting
with many other names and added NewsGuy to her Newshosting NSPs,
example:
From: West Coast Offense <oldwierdha...@newsguy.com>
Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95
NNTP-Posting-Host:
p69d581692e2297976c9f7d689adbf4f5f3ff693b012677ec.newsdawg.com
2/5/14 Update - 'Lickin' Ass and Fakin' Military Service' was BANNED
from NewsGuy and BANNED from Newshosting.
[][][][][][]
The DemocRATs Hall Of Shame asks "Why do you always LIE?"
[Courtesy of Buster Norris]
On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 23:57:16 -0500, Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
<PopUl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Re: "I never said I served 8 years in the Navy. I said I served 8
>years in the Marines." SURE you did.
>-- QUOTE
>I SERVED 8 YEARS, NAVY, VIETNAM.
That was PG. He was in the Navy for 8 years, and he was in Vietnam
awhile..............
Unlike YOU who was NEVER in ANY military service............
Why are you so fucking stupid, Freakshow??????????
>I guess "NAVY" means "MARINE CORPS."
LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PG never said he was in the USMC, I did, because I was...........
Unlike YOU who was NEVER in ANY military service............
Why are you so fucking stupid, Freakshow??????????
Posted on behalf of:
The DemocRATs Hall of Shame!
Liar, a Proven Thief, and recently a Proven Malicious Poster. She is
the most prolific liar in this newsgroup and also the most prolific
thief of other's writings. She is also a Stolen Valor stain on
America.
'Lickin' Ass and Fakin' Military Service' IS the Democratic Party in
America. She is an admitted election official in VA. This is proof
positive that DemocRATs are the party of Liars, Frauds & Thieves.
Note that when you reply to a Proven Liar you encourage them to
continue lying.
1/14 Update - 'Lickin' Ass and Fakin' Military Service' began posting
with many other names and added NewsGuy to her Newshosting NSPs,
example:
From: West Coast Offense <oldwierdha...@newsguy.com>
Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95
NNTP-Posting-Host:
p69d581692e2297976c9f7d689adbf4f5f3ff693b012677ec.newsdawg.com
2/5/14 Update - 'Lickin' Ass and Fakin' Military Service' was BANNED
from NewsGuy and BANNED from Newshosting.
[][][][][][]
The DemocRATs Hall Of Shame asks "Why do you always LIE?"
[Courtesy of Buster Norris]
On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 23:57:16 -0500, Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
<PopUl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Re: "I never said I served 8 years in the Navy. I said I served 8
>years in the Marines." SURE you did.
>-- QUOTE
>I SERVED 8 YEARS, NAVY, VIETNAM.
That was PG. He was in the Navy for 8 years, and he was in Vietnam
awhile..............
Unlike YOU who was NEVER in ANY military service............
Why are you so fucking stupid, Freakshow??????????
>I guess "NAVY" means "MARINE CORPS."
LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PG never said he was in the USMC, I did, because I was...........
Unlike YOU who was NEVER in ANY military service............
Why are you so fucking stupid, Freakshow??????????
Posted on behalf of:
The DemocRATs Hall of Shame!
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