Despite the heated exchanges about religion and politics lately I don't understand why people are leaving. This site is about the loss of testicles, function, penis, and other variations.

I've not seen any posts that weren't supportive of someone who was looking to become a eunuch. I haven't seen anything nasty when someone asked about doing a trial run with chemical castration. I've seen posts about banding and the like that explained the dangers or told of one's own experiences. I've seen posts from the transgendered about hormones and combinations for feminization that were responded to nicely.

I guess my point is that what the purpose of this unique place on the web is being fulfilled. The political stuff, religious stuff is not what it is here for. People believe what they want to, or how they were raised to, I don't think many minds are going to be changed. If someone wants to cut their balls off badly enough it will happen one way or the other. They can be advised, but in the end it is up to that person. Same goes for religion or voting.

For me this site fulfills its mission, to advise, help, and educate about castration and it's effects.

Batman

Batman

I agree totally

I have had some very nice discussions that contained religion

And some political

For some reason when the two individuals don’t see or believe the same as the other one , the other takes it personally that’s when things gets heated and

Feelings get hurt

It’s ok to be different so what

I voted for McCain , he lost so what , I am sure Obama will be a good prez.

What is important is friends

You ride a bike you fall off you pick it up and get back on and

Try until you get better

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You got me on the codes A-1 (code cracking was never much of an interest of mine)...

As for anything else, my post was a simple attempt to show that the eunuch.org site IS taking care of the people coming for help. It doesn't matter what anyone's politic/religion is as far as the members HELPING each other out in making a life-altering decision.

All the best!!

Batman

My view is that the bulletin board is kind of like a specialty place where people who are having, or have had, some kind of male-sexual-testicle identity crisis can come and we can sit around different tables and have all kinds of discussions.

At first our main interest is in anything and everything about our feelings about castration desires, curiosity, gaining information and knowledge about others who have same feelings, and getting to know those who have worked through them, got over them, or fulfilled them. After getting to know people discussions naturally will move on to other things, other feelings, other thoughts and opinions.

We may move from table to table to be with different people, and join in, or not join in, different discussions.

And while each table may be generally allocated to the discussion of a particular topic, as discussions go, one comment will lead to something else and a discussion might drift to something else now and then.

Sometimes people let themselves get offended. You do realize that nobody can really offend you; only you can let them offend you. If you are confident enough in your own opinions your armour will deflect any attempt to spear you with a nasty comment.

How can it be bad if people who have a commen interest in castration become a micro-community of people and gather around different tables to engage in other types of communication; sharing ideas, soap boxing thoughts, defending points of view, is part of the human experience. Anyone who starts shooting arrows of insults are merely showing the world that their point of view can't be defended (or they are unable to defend it), so in effect they loose the argument.

Debate can be healthy. Bottling up thoughts and emotions leads to mental constipation.

Politics and religion in real life are intertwined with sex, sexuality, medicine, and mental health issues.

If the operators of the board want to limit the content exclusively to the mental, emotional, and physical aspects of elective surgical castration, that is their call.

There are many web sites out there for men who are about to loose one or both testicles to cancer, and to men who have lost one or both testicles to some injury or other medical situation. These are men who did not want castration. This site is dedicated to men who, for one reason or another, want (or have had) castration.

That makes us special and a community. As a community why not sit around different tables with other birds like us and engage in other kinds of conversation besides testicles.

As a community if someone is getting out of line, being rude and obnoxious, we can choose to ignore them or as a community ask them to get lost (in a nice way) and visit some other web group where people enjoy throwing insult spears at one another.

Always remember that the majority of communication is not from words. It is from non-verbal sources; eyes, face, hands, body, expressions. One must be creative and careful when communicating ONLY with the typed word. Sometimes people try to put their emotions into words and they get carried away or don't do a very good job.

Unless castration is or becomes a political issue, I don't feel that politics is relevant to the purpose of this forum and I have never understood why there is [or was] a political section. I never read it. If I want discussion of politics, there are literally dozens of other fora where I can find it.

Somehow, I can't imagine that political discussion could be so essential to a person's self-expression that he would feel that he has nothing to say otherwise. I have found numerous opportunities to pontificate [One of my friends calls me "Pontificator Maximus".] on this forum without ever introducing politics. Maybe Blaise should broaden his interests.

Bagoas (imported) wrote: Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:27 am Somehow, I can't imagine that political discussion could be so essential to a person's self-expression that he would feel that he has nothing to say otherwise. I have found numerous opportunities to pontificate [One of my friends calls me "Pontificator Maximus".] on this forum without ever introducing politics. Maybe Blaise should broaden his interests.

Not being a eunuch, and maybe never being, I read the posts about all aspects of castration with deep interest but rarely feel that I have anything to contribute.

The political forums allow interaction with members and, for me, foster a sense of community - even in our contentions - that I don't get from reading alone.

hi calmeilles, that sounds very reasonable. Bye the bye, your avatar reminds so much of upstairs,downstairs, I imagine you there listening to some actor giving his line off stage and you are just about to respond. Sorry for this foolishness, I could not help myself.

Over the past year or so I have come to enjoy your well ordered intellect dispensing with the usual fluff.

I frankly was put off by all the political stuff. Did I come to EA for that? nope.... It got so angry, so heated and so damned personal. Like the idiotic adverts on TV which say nothing about what they will do only what the other person did. These handouts saying "Leadership and here is my family" stuff... UGH! I wish we were like the UK and did not allow paid political ads.

And btw I approve this message...