SUPER Controversial Thread!!! (Not for the faint of heart) — Page 12

I would rather be childish than be a bigot. Cheers!

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Wow. I just opened this thread for the first time in a few days and I am scared sh*tless. Rentaholic, I just don't get it. I really don't. I'm just so tired of people citing books that other people wrote instead of saying "this is what I believe that god wants". This is why I hate organized religion.

whoa now, NYBroadwayNY, don't be disrespectin' my controversial point of view!!!!

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well actually the cavepeople were the first telling stories around a camp fire. then came the Egyptians who preformed plays before the greeks. Mostly the Egyptian plays were about their gods, preformed at temples rather than in theatres

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ok, well let's send a letter to all the theatre scholars, particularly the great Oscar Brockett, and tell them they got it all wrong!

Obviously our scholars would classify what you are saying as not being the origin of theatre, but as oral history ala Homer. Sure--that could be a great debate, but surely that debate has been had--and it was decided that theatre began with Thespis and the Greeks.

Regardless, my point is that homosexuals created theatre--and you better believe there were gay cavemen and women and gay Egyptians.

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Updated On: 9/28/04 at 10:46 PM

hehehehehehehehehehehehehe

"We may both be correct"

NO, no, no. This is supposed to be controversial. So, one of you MUST be wrong.

So, who...could....it....be????

Nope--I have the book right next to me. We are both correct depending on how you view it.

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I didn't say non-gays--I said anti-gays.

I don't concede the argument between Eqyptians/Greeks just yet.

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Ok--while I certainly believe in the idea that theatre existed before the Greeks--if the oldest professions are acting and prostitution, than we know theatre began with human existence, the Greeks are given credit by many as the first. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say the Greeks created Western Drama--not theatre as a whole, but just to support that I didn't dream this up:

https://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/background/24a_p1.html

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Thespis invented porn. Everyone knows that. Don't be a porn bigot.

NYBroadwayNY - I'm assuming that since you read the one post, that perhaps you continued reading through the thread. I said later on (the next morning, in fact) that I was going to go back and edit my previous statements, but only left them as evidence of my true emotions at the time. I then went on to apologize for any hurt that those statements may cause.

If, in fact, you did not read that post, I will re-iterate to you personally, here and now, that I really am sorry for the crudity and forcefulness of my post. While I appreciate other's attempts to 'whitewash' my rant, I happen to agree with you - it was out-of-line and not to be defended. I will do my best (as I generally do) to keep my emotions under control and have respectful and courteous dialogue.

That being said, I'm afraid that all I can offer is peace and happiness to someone who believes in something like the bible - for I do not accept it as the same thing you do. In response to your subtle statement about my thoughts coming 'as if I was there,' all I can say is that I depend on the learnings of accumulated human knowledge - as opposed to what you obviously accept as some kind of message from your god.

Again, please accept my apologies for any harm you may have felt I was causing you. It won't happen again.