I'm not alleging that most Christians are Westboro types , nor that they hold crazy views that are nearly as damaging as the crazy crap those people are up to (you jumped to that all by yourself)... I'm just saying, that the typically 'Christian' attitude regarding sex and everything surrounding it, is often at odds with the current attitudes and practices of modern society and has only served to fuel arguments such as this one, or in other cases, hinder proper responses to situations, am thinking of abstinence based sex education as an example.

In any case, in regards to overpopulation, I was not speaking of the here and the now, but the future. If we continue to reproduce at the rate we have in the last 100 years (highly inflated due to innovations in medicine and agriculture) we will undoubtedly begin to run out of resources, and I'm not talking about food, but other, less renewable ones, like oil, water, rainforests, and yes, even personal space. I also never said anything about stopping to reproduce altogether (quit inferring so damn much from my statements!) just help curb its seemingly run away growth and find some sort of balance as a species within our environment.

My argument though, that gays would be a boon to meeting this end, however, is based on the assumption that homosexuals do not breed or somehow lack the impetus to, and last night, when I was doing something completely non-Sift related, I realized that this assumption was false and in the end my dream of a population equilibrium was yet again dashed. You see, we are forgetting here that many gays and lesbians do in fact still have that desire to bear offspring and nurture children (lesbians perhaps more than gay men), and seek out alternative methods to attain this goal of procreation... granted, many do adopt (when they are allowed to), but a good many others use artificial insemination, surrogates, etc.

I still don't think, however, that one can effectively argue that homosexuality just should not be solely because the parts don't fit, or because they cannot reproduce in the 'natural' sense, or that it is immoral based on something written two millennia ago, which its followers only cherry pick passages to follow in the first place. We could go around and around about this forever, but I'm afraid none of us would budge on our viewpoints.

Yes this is a dupe....I've posted it, if just a slight bit different

http://www.videosift.com/video/Dont-go-to-a-tropical-rainforest-Heres-why

*dupe

what is scientific about cutting down rainforests to plant soybeans to make biodiesel to reduce some percentage of carbon dioxide? There is hysteria about global warming, and political types are willing to foster it.

As some of the other youtube commenters pointed out, that's ayahuasca. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca
The people are south american, not north-american southwest peoples. The snakes are constricters (i.e. jungle instead of desert rattlers), and all the other plants/animals are pretty much tropiucal/rainforest critters. Ayahuasca is D.M.T. in an orally active format, as it contains a MAO inhibitor which allows it to be ingested orally without being rapidly metabolized. in non ayahuasca forms, DMT is often smoked. It is a very powerful hallucinogen.

Essentially, dude got himself Shpongled.

I've messed with large Odontomachus nests in the rainforests of the small Caribbean island named Dominica. Biggest ants I've ever seen alive. Huge muscle bulges behind their eyes on the backs of their over-sized heads.

Locals often call them the Tac-tac ants, because you can sometimes hear the snap of their mandibles. The local species on Dominica had a powerful stinger tucked into its jaws, so the slight pinch of the mandibles would be followed by a wasp sting-like pain.

A relative of mine does entomology research in the rainforest each year, and he has a fun story about a botfly growing on the side of his leg.

Back in the States they just made a small incision and quickly removed the creature, instead of mucking around with vasaline and stuff, but I guess if its on your head its easier to do it the gross way they in this video.

nevermind. guess i did that all a few mins before you posted. looks to be working fine now.

wait, it's still broken kinda... look at my history... 5 videos in the past 15 mins...
(kill the test, and the rainforest one)

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=6166 (just in case the discard called by krupo goes through before you see this.)
and
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=6164