Bill Weintraub

Re: A Brother Falls !!

11-15-2006

Thank you Robert.

I'm sorry for this loss.

Yet, as Robert says, YOU guys have it in YOUR power to STOP these losses.

Suppose that instead of losing this male, we had gained a MAN in this fight.

Suppose that MAN was the MAN YOU've been looking for.

Just suppose.

The man you're looking for, the man who's right for YOU, is out there somewhere.

It may have been this man.

But now he's GONE, because YOU wouldn't FIGHT for him.

NOTHING WORTH HAVING IN THIS WORLD IS GAINED WITHOUT A FIGHT.

And you all know that.

Robert:

We are involved in a WAR!! The self righteous and the butt-bangers have banded their armies of men together to fight against us yet we do not band together. Why not? Warriors who band together tend to CONQUER! Lone, rogue Warriors tend to be put to the sword. A warrior brother fell yesterday because the attacks against him were too great and he could not fight them alone! The DOGS won and the DOGS in this world will keep WINNING until the MASCULINE WARRIORS in this world band together and FORCE a CHANGE upon this upside down and lost world!!

"The self-righteous and the butt-bangers have banded their armies together to fight against us" -- to fight against MEN.

This is something Redd said re Ted Haggard:

It seems that for religious people, they condemn what they are, what they practice. They condemn because they feel condemned. They feel God has really rejected them. They talk religious talk, walk religious walk because they're conflicted with their natural selves against unnatural demands of religion. They define holiness as otherworldly, an otherworldliness that requires they cut themselves off from their whole self, that they separate body and mind because "the body is the tool of the devil."

I think such distorted thinking is the type of platform analism and heterosexism thrives upon. The Church has demonized the body, and analsts acknowledge such demonization by infecting the body with fatal diseases. It's like an exorcism. The only way to exorcise a demonized body is to kill the body.

When I think about what Bill posted, that drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and promiscuity (which is physical abuse) characterize the gay community, I hear of a community that has condemned itself. I hear of a community that has mistaken promiscuity for fun and has given themselves to delusion by ignoring the fact that they are killing each other more than is homophobia as they claim. I hear of a community that hates itself just as the religious fundamentalists condemn themselves and just as the heterosexists delude themselves.

We have seen on many of these threads that analists, heterosexists, and religious fundamentalists are similar, if not the same. Each encourages delusion. Each condemns the body, especially the male's body.

"I think such distorted thinking [of the religious right] is the type of platform analism and heterosexism thrives upon. The Church has demonized the body, and analists acknowledge such demonization by infecting the body with fatal diseases. It's like an exorcism. The only way to exorcise a demonized body is to kill the body."

"analists, heterosexists, and religious fundamentalists are similar, if not the same. Each encourages delusion. Each condemns the body, especially the male's body."

There are your enemies.

And you KNOW they're your enemies.

The buttboys have oppressed you all your life.

"If it's not anal it's not really gay."

"Get on your knees and have some fun -- bitch!"

"I don't think you're really gay if you don't do anal."

"You're a prude."

"You're shit-phobic."

"You're a homo -- get used to it."

The heterosexists have oppressed you all your life.

"Real men don't have sex with men."

The fundies have oppressed you all your life.

"Homosexuality is immoral."

"Homosexuality is a dark and repulsive force."

"Homosexuals are excluded from the Kingdom of God."

"Homosexuals cannot be allowed to marry."

"Homosexuals cannot be allowed to serve in the military."

"Homosexuals cannot be priests, or ministers, or bishops."

"Homosexuals are not allowed in our church."

"If you're a homosexual, I won't cut your lawn, or rent you an apartment or give you a job -- because you're repulsive to my faith."

You've all heard this.

And some of you who are straight-identified -- hell, some of you who are gay-identified -- have participated in it.

Oh yeah.

I know you have.

How can I be so sure?

Because it's the common currency of American life.

And most of you do not have the courage to turn it down.

You go along to get along.

STOP IT.

Robert:

ALL of us LOST a battle yesterday when our brother gave up! Just one more DEFEAT I suppose we add to a long list of DEFEATS! Yet, defeat will continue UNTIL we the WARRIORS band together in UNITY, SUPPORT, and BROTHERHOOD and begin to STAND UP and FIGHT BACK against the BFD and the self righteous!! Defeat and casualties will continue to mount until we begin to stand up to the DOGS!! Meanwhile, our brethren continue to fall. What sad times we live in when MEN who are BORN warriors will not even stand up and fight!!

"All of us LOST a battle" -- that means YOU lost too.

And that's really DUMB.

Because you could win.

This is something Robert said in The Warrior God:

The image of War God held as an ideal in the male mind makes that male begin to walk down the paths of masculinity and warrior. It makes him unafraid to simply be the masculine male that he was born to be. It makes him unafraid to show his naked chest and nude body to the world. It makes him unafraid to love other brothers and it puts him in touch with his own manhood and the manhood of all other males. The image of War God is a naturally masculine ideal. It is an image of natural manhood. It is an image and ideal that stands directly opposed to the lies we are fed by the modern world. Lies that seek to eat away and destroy our natural masculinity and male pride!

Right.

So there's the ideal of the War God -- which used to be not just the ideal but the reality and TRUTH of male life;

and there are the lies of the modern world.

YOU choose.

YOU decide.

It's your life, it's your world, it's there for the winning or the losing.

Yesterday YOU lost.

What about today?

FIGHT BACK.

Bill Weintraub

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