The gay who was inlove with me..

Have you ever seen this, the obviously gay kid at school being punched and bullied?
Well I was bullied for being fat, and when I grew up I became active against bullies, not in the activist way, but kicking their asses and intimidating them to stop their abuse..
But that is not what I wanted to say here

When I was in my early thirties, in a pub a young guy, maybe twenty-something joined me at the bar and I noticed right away he was nervous..
We talked a little and then out of the blue, he told me he was in love with me..
This surprised me, I would have expected anything but that.. I looked at him and yes I saw that glow that only shows when someone is in love, then his expression turned nervous again , ready to duck for a punch. 
But I have been raised to accept other people as they are and I wasn't ignorant about homosexuality. 
However, since I am not gay,  I looked him in the eyes and said: "Look, I am very flattered, but I don't have anything to offer you, I like girls..".
He relaxed, "Well I just had to try, even if it meant the risk of you punching me in the face"
I replied, "why would I do that ? you just told me a sweet thing, I just have to decline, I am not gay" 
We talked for a while, and then he left and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek.. He was just a sweet gay kid..
Of course my friends there in the pub made fun of me that evening, but I just went with it because I knew  also for my friends, it wasn't a big deal just an opportunity to be silly..  I chose my friends carefully  

Gay wedding cake

I met him a few times after that and years later he surprised me once again, he asked me to be the best man at his wedding, -yes a gay wedding- , one of the first here in the Netherlands and I told him I would be honored and I accepted..
Even though my open minded upbringing it felt awkward but that wore off, it was a nice wedding, a nice wedding party, and again a guy wanted to get close to me..  and again I answered him that I like women..  But it was not a big deal we had fun I sang a few songs with the band and that was it.
It was an enriching experience and thanks to that I have a number of gay friends who accept me as being straight, as I accept them as being gay.

Shit we are all humans, we all have different feelings , but that does not make one less than the other..
And Bullies ?  I think that they are so ashamed of themselves that they need to hide that by taking it out on others, preferably easy victims who are afraid to fight back..
Bullies are just plain disgusting, however some of them come to realize what kinds of assholes they have been, and my bullies actually apologized to me, many years later.. That also took much courage and I accepted their apologizes after all, people can change to the better.. 

Where will we REALLY go after we die ?

Every one knows the religious answer of  going to heaven ..
I am not going in to this because I dismiss it as a bedtime story to ease ,or if you are afraid to end up in the other place, increase the fear of dying in people..
That's religion for you..

I believe, no I KNOW that death will be like a dreamless sleep of eternal unawareness which has no return, no suffering, no joy I will just no longer be there..
Like one of my most favorite quotes in life:

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
Mark twain


My story maybe not much of a reassurance, but I prefer reality, and this has more beauty and  wonder than religion can ever promise.
We are all made of molecules and elements forged in ancient stars that explosively died long ago and spread their mater all over the universe.. most of the atoms in our bodies may have their origin millions of light years apart from each other.
We all will be going where we and every other life form that ever lived on earth is going. back to the  unaware molecular state of separate molecules and elements that we were made of..
But it is the travel there is a story worth telling and starts the moment you die.
Suppose they bury you under a tree, that will be the departure of your journey.
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For example like this one It's in Littleton, just outside of Denver, at Littleton Cemetery, The grave is under a tree right by one of the gates..It is very real.

At first part of your chemical make up will end up in that tree and every living form around it like plants insects microbes that will carry your molecules further on
In a sense part of you will live on in that  tree until it dies and it will be well possible that few of your atoms and molecules will travel on in new humans and other life forms on earth for billions of years until our sun eventually will die , most likely after violently expanding and  swallowing up most of the planets ..

 

Perhaps it will become nova en destroying the whole solar system and sending all matter back to the universe and from where it came to make new stars and new life in another place in the galaxy..

Personally I find this an epic adventure, far better than spending eternity worshiping some jealous attention craving ancient war god, Yahweh Sabaoth.. (Yahweh, lord of armies)
The only thing I kinda regret is that I will not aware of all this happening, because I will have been returned to the state of non existence, as I was billions of years before I was born...

JE SUIS CHARLIE!

How peaceful is the religion of islam

How peaceful do they slaughter the people drawing a joke abot islam

well this video shows a lot