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Thursday, July 17, 2014
I just looked over at my tagboard and am once again reminded of all the silly people who surround me hahaha they so cute!See too many cuteness already lah ok??^^ Today i met pearlyn for a nice meal at swensen and then we walked around muji and daiso and went to the cc with our usual milk tea (except this time i had peach green tea because i got influenced by chris. but no next time its back to milk tea from my favorite uncle!) Pearlyn and i can talk so much seriously i am quite amazed that we dont run out of things to talk about? So we updated each other on what we've heard recently etc and then talked extensively about singapore's banning of books for pro-family reasons...and about people arguing about homo or non-homo because of this heatedly... although somewhat relevant, i think heated arguments that ive seen thus far get a little off-topic when it becomes a debate about whether homosexuality and non-conformist families are acceptable...cos honestly i think to me this issue is more about the pertinence of censorship, and who has the right to decide what the public can receive. ....but okaaay...lets just shun bian talk about whether sexual orientation is abomination by God too..amongst you guys while I listen in. While I have opinions, I'd rather not actively argue for them (say, go on forums to engage in other netizens) unless its for the sake of discussion amongst calm friends, because most of the time people get defensive and I dont need to deal with that. So it was great chatting to Pearlyn, although she didnt seem too interested at the start hahaha. Strange though (and i brought this up with pearl), why some religions say God didnt make us all believe in him despite him being omnipotent because He wanted you to go to Him of your own will...but then their members argue for censorship of materials that do not align with what their scriptures say. What happened to finding God through your own will? If youre gna passive-aggressively "guide" people to follow your faith like that, God might as well have made us all religious right from the start. Well yeah about the censorship thing I think it wasnt a very apt move because limiting knowledge and silencing people (btw the books didnt even seem to promote homo hahaha..not until the issue blew up anyway) reflects insecurity and though history all cases of book-burnings have always been associated with oppression (burning of books by the Qin Shi Huang i think, and also by Hitler because communists and jews were not agreeable to him)...so if the conventional male-female family really is the best and the most correct, then why fear some little stories messing with people's sexualities. If you're worried about your child becoming homo after reading those books, why not just teach them otherwise using the books as an opportunity to broach the topic (since you say homo is nurtured and not natural..then i'm sure you could nurture otherwise )...there was no need for that censorship except perhaps for singapore to make a stand on her (in)tolerance of alternative families. (i'm not even talking about whether it IS nature or nurture haha cos idk and i think it doesnt matter tbh. so what if its nurture...civilization is a product of nurturing too.Manners as well. No one's complaining about those.) Well thats what I feel. On the other hand, yeah nlb is an institution so if they feel their books go against their values then so be it lor haha then it makes sense to ban the books.(except yknow, maybe we might want to consider what the nlb should represent..cos it is an institution but its a library too..and libraries are kind of expected to promote ideas...even if you think theyre wrong ideas.) blah bah bah i could go on, but its 4am and i'm going to watch Whose Line Is It Anyway cos its so smart and funny. tata! I dont really want to blog in detail about my stance on homosexuality, though i'll just say that I think its alright simply because I believe in a person loving another person. If we all saw each other as people just like ourselves, life would be so much simpler. No gender wars, no racism, no bigots cos we're all the same souls. :) Just a blogpost on my current thoughts. Not looking to start a war or a discussion unless you be chill and hang out with me. |
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