This first one is about Rick Santorum. I don't think I mentioned the other aspect of his appearance in the recent debate: the audience's reaction to the gay soldier that asked the question about DADT. They booed him. Straight up booed a member of our military because he is gay and dared to ask whether Santorum planned to erase his newly given right to honesty and openness (answer: yes, he does).
The next one is an interesting article by an "experimental philosopher" from Yale about one's true self.
Anyone who reads that, share with me: what do you think determines your true self? Is it your basest, most automatic instincts? Or does it lie in your values? If I remember, maybe I'll say what I think next time.
And last but not least, lets finish up our little countdown of Hot Guys of Reality TV that influenced my sexuality discovery process (which is ongoing).
The winner is . . .
J.P. Calderon from Survivor Cook Islands!
J.P.'s from the same season that Ozzy Lusth is from, which I guess brings this countdown full circle. He didn't really play a huge role that season and got voted off before he could make it to the jury. But I really liked him. He has that mixture of handsome face, buff body, and soft-spoken demeanor that can be extremely attractive. I continued to keep track of his career after he left the show and ventured into modeling. He wound up on another show called "Janice Dickenson Modeling Agency." Even though I didn't watch it, I watched his pivotal scene: his coming out.
Basically, Instinct Magazine wanted to feature him on the cover. Janice approached him with the opportunity, but also with the catch: the magazine only puts out gay men on the cover. J.P. decided at that point to come out. Suffice it to say my fascination with him grew more after that.
What did you think of my countdown, did anyone else watch any of those shows?
1 comment:
I think that our 'self' doesn't exist; at least not in the way we usually think.
The word 'self' is a metaphor, an umbrella term we use to describe the total sum of what we are, which is many, many different things, whether it be instincts, biology, drives, will, desires, thoughts, etc, and many of them are in conflict, and some stronger than others.
I don't think a 'self', as in a single united element exists.
I liken it to a jigsaw puzzle. The 'self' is the entire puzzle, and not any single piece of it.
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