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Bill Kaulitz Reloaded . Now Coloured ;)

*Egil21:iconEgil21: reports, 1d 23h ago
Another tribute, now coloured. These artists deserve all the attention and your :+fav:s. Spread the love, please! :heart:
48 comments   Tributes  Last +fav: ~Max-CCCP

World Of Art - No. 24

=emeraldsugar:iconemeraldsugar: reports, December 1
The final of a two year series of monthly articles where several people have come together to cross-section the site, bringing amazing features from various catagories around this amazing place we so lovingly call deviantART.

Featuring my Watchers

=kaminaru:iconkaminaru: reports, 2d 5h ago
Massive feature on all medias.

Features - Peapie Edition #2

=redsun2002:iconredsun2002: reports, 2d 13h ago
First off I would love to welcome all of you to my new Tribute to awesome artists that are from all walks of life. They have subbmited to my new wonderful thumbshare titled "Do you have any DD-worthy Pieces?"! Feel free to come join us there. But please remember to follow the rules. Now one to those great artworks that are just from page #2!

Plus many of you have asked what Peapie is. I would like to know what you think it is. So what is Peapie? I will tell you what Peapie is in the next Peapie Edition.

The National Day of Romania

*Danutza88:iconDanutza88: reports, December 1
La multi ani, Romania! (Happy birthday, Romania!)

L is for Literature

*Cattereia:iconCattereia: reports, November 29
Short or long, blunt or long-winded... Literature can have many different styles...
17 comments   Tributes  Last +fav: =PaperDart

Getting to know the unknown Volume 9

=RiNymph:iconRiNymph: reports, November 29
Every month I feature those amazing artists among us that definitely need more exposure! Don't be afraid to look at them! One click doesn't cost much. ^^
8 comments   Tributes  Last +fav: ~Vasya27

Inspiring Art and Artists (2)

=ImaRawkStar:iconImaRawkStar: reports, November 27
A feature full of amazing art and artists.
24 comments   Tributes  Last +fav: *Blackenn

A little Adventure games Tribute

=IngwellRitter:iconIngwellRitter: reports, November 27
A small collection of adventure games stamps... we need more!
47 comments   Tributes  Last +fav: =selene713

Features - Peapie Edition #1

=redsun2002:iconredsun2002: reports, November 22
First off I would love to welcome all of you to my new Tribute to awesome artists that are from all walks of life.

Tributes This Week

The National Day of Romania

*Danutza88:iconDanutza88: reports, December 1
La multi ani, Romania! (Happy birthday, Romania!)

Featuring my Watchers

=kaminaru:iconkaminaru: reports, 2d 5h ago
Massive feature on all medias.

Inspiring Art and Artists (2)

=ImaRawkStar:iconImaRawkStar: reports, November 27
A feature full of amazing art and artists.
24 comments   Tributes  Last +fav: *Blackenn

Features - Peapie Edition #2

=redsun2002:iconredsun2002: reports, 2d 13h ago
First off I would love to welcome all of you to my new Tribute to awesome artists that are from all walks of life. They have subbmited to my new wonderful thumbshare titled "Do you have any DD-worthy Pieces?"! Feel free to come join us there. But please remember to follow the rules. Now one to those great artworks that are just from page #2!

Plus many of you have asked what Peapie is. I would like to know what you think it is. So what is Peapie? I will tell you what Peapie is in the next Peapie Edition.

World Of Art - No. 24

=emeraldsugar:iconemeraldsugar: reports, December 1
The final of a two year series of monthly articles where several people have come together to cross-section the site, bringing amazing features from various catagories around this amazing place we so lovingly call deviantART.

L is for Literature

*Cattereia:iconCattereia: reports, November 29
Short or long, blunt or long-winded... Literature can have many different styles...
17 comments   Tributes  Last +fav: =PaperDart

Getting to know the unknown Volume 9

=RiNymph:iconRiNymph: reports, November 29
Every month I feature those amazing artists among us that definitely need more exposure! Don't be afraid to look at them! One click doesn't cost much. ^^
8 comments   Tributes  Last +fav: ~Vasya27

Bill Kaulitz Reloaded . Now Coloured ;)

*Egil21:iconEgil21: reports, 1d 23h ago
Another tribute, now coloured. These artists deserve all the attention and your :+fav:s. Spread the love, please! :heart:
48 comments   Tributes  Last +fav: ~Max-CCCP

Romania

~anaplangedupatine:iconanaplangedupatine: reports, December 1
it´s sad that I realised how beautiful is this country just after I left it.. Romania is perfect! Beautiful landscapes, nice people, beautiful women, nice parties!!
3 comments   Tributes  Last +fav: =Alamic05

Mini-DDs Vol. 157

*SlyDante:iconSlyDante: reports, November 29
Did anyone call for a mixture of DD-worthy pics of smoke beasts, magical pastries, intergalactic voodoo, & evil televisions, among other things? No? Well, you're getting one anyway, so you may as well come on in & check it out!

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Homophobia ... or why you can't simply love

=WitchOfNature:iconWitchOfNature: reports, May 30, 2008
When I look at all the cruelty done to all those people who want to live their lives as what they are ... and then I see the blindness and stupidity of some humans – I am getting sad and sometimes angry.

Sad because I don't know where the love did go.

The love you could feel in the early days of mankind – when there were no differences made between races, believes and sexuality. Of course there have always been persons thinking that man-man or woman-woman is kind of a weird thing ... but they would never have done cruel things like killing you for what you were.

In those days it was not a usual thing to marry a partner with the same sex – but unusual it wasn't either. The love and the partnership was important and not only during ancient Greek times.

But time did change and so did the people ...

Old religions were banned and declared as evil. Old thoughts that everyone is the same and should be treated kindly ... old thoughts that love is everywhere ... old thoughts that you are worth to be loved and you are a child of the Gods and have a right to show your thoughts and feelings the way you want it to.

When we look close on the history it was the church of these days – i.e. the Christian religion that started to blame all things „unnatural“ - but the clergy men did not see that if it would be unnatural – nature or so GOD would never have allowed it.

Heaven has nothing against same sex love ... GOD has nothing against that kind of love – because heaven makes no differences and heaven would never blame you, would never disrespect you, would never ever do you harm – for the act of loving.

Love is the essence of life! Love is light ... love is one of the strongest energies upon Earth and everywhere. Why should any god ... why should any wise creature blame or mistreat you for that? Why?

Humans made all that ... and not heaven!
Humans write ... humans bend what was written and humans bend what was once said.
Even Jesus did never blame or mistreat a person for what was done.

Hell was created by Christian mankind to get more people into their „new“ religion as they still wanted to stay with their old „pagan“ religions.

Don't get me wrong – I don't say a thing against Christianity – not when it would be lived the way it should be lived: with love, with respect to every being ... no matter what colour, no matter what believe, no matter what gender and no matter what sexual orientation!

So when I see all that cruelty done to persons being different in the eyes of all that „normal“ people ... I tend to say that they are different – different and blind! Walking through life and just thinking it is enough what they do – when they go to church every time they should go, when the say a prayer before every meal and when they live according to the rules of God.

But are they doing it?

Do they really feel it? Do they feel the love when they pray or is it just some babbling of words – because it is automatically done?
Do live against the rules of God or just what some man made out of them?

Sometimes I want to put all those people, who acted like monsters against others, in front of a big screen – and show them what they have done – and let them feel what the person felt who has been treated wrong.

How can they know what is going on inside of someone else when they are blind and deaf by heart?

It often makes me so angry ... but then: talking would not be enough because they would not understand – how could they?
Showing would not be enough because they would not see – how could they?

How could someone see and understand who never had to experience such things and who is buried in his/her ignorance against what really is important ...

So what is important?

Respect for all living being
Respect for life
Respect for love
Respect for what you are ...for who you are
Respect for the decisions you make


To say it with words of a true believer:

God (no matter which one) – God would never want that – because God is the respresentation of the balance. God is love ... and I ask you: when God and all the heavenly creatures can love a person being different (in your eyes)Why can't you?


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:iconphilipcapet:
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True words, my dear :clap:

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Open your inner eyes for thy own beauty and thou whilst recognize that thou art never wandering alone!
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:iconhermetic-wings:
If my skill of language would be enough to express my feelings, I would add some more words but, you put everthing that must be inside of that article my dear!...Thanks for your share!...Thank for your respect to humanity, thanks many time to belive the religion of "Love"...
All I want to add that "love and beloved is the most peacefull, creative, activative and positive feeling in UNIVERSE"...I hate racism...
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"la vita nova" is the new chance to me given by hermetic wings...and now hermetic sources is on...
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Really nicely said, I really try not to date guys with religious backgrounds anymore, not because I'm inherently against religion, but because religious environments totally mess up gay/bi people's lives to the extent where they're not happy being who they are. I once knew a guy who I was totally mad about, gorgeous, intelligent, witty, generally a REALLY lovely guy, and it went well for a while until this other (apparently "true" part of himself came out that denied any kind of homosexual urges (not taking responsibility for it, but blaming the other him). So it ended badly.

I just think that religion plays a bit part in making people like that, I think things would have been so much more different had he not felt compelled to have been as cruel as he was to me, my only crime was that I really cared about him and just wanted to spend time with him. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened had he not felt he needed to repress it.

Thanks for linking and using my work in your article, I really enjoyed reading it! :)

Thanks Again
Best Regards
Gaz. :)

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:: There is no rewind button, tread carefully ::
:iconzenith13:
Amazing article.
Thanks for showing my photo on here anyway.

Funny how it's the Catholics that hate homophobia:

1) The main Bible passages used against homophobia are the ones detailing what went on in Sodom and Gomorrah; yet that was incest, not homosexuality.

2) There's a piece of Vatican legislation protecting priests from charges of rape and silencing victims and witnesses with threats of excommunication. The clergy don't seem to care that they're molesting small boys.

Both sides of my family are Christian; both sides Catholic. I'm glad my Dad wanted me to make my own choice.

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Icarus.

Science. Romance. Disillusion Extraordinaire.
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Ein absolut wunderbarer und bewegender Text du bist meine Heldin^____^ Wunderschön und sehr sehr tiefgründig :hug:

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Muhahahahaha! :headbang:
:iconredlion:
Excellent article, thanks for writing it!
:iconottomatt:
I am not so sure that the world was ever "love", equality? I doubt it. It seems to be human nature that we are tribal and this leads to the problems described. I suppose that we should celebrate "difference" in all it's forms, I would hate a world that says only what I think, or does only what I do :-)

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clicking my life away
:iconwitchofnature:
Dear Ayhan,

thank you so much for this comment :hug:
I really do believe in love and that love should have no restrictions :cuddle:

I am really happy that you like my article! :iconlove:

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take - but by the places and moments that take our breath away! ~Anonymous~ :heart:
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I am loving my inner self - what about you?
:iconwitchofnature:
At first - thanks for your work :clap: and thank you for the comment :thanks:

Unfortunately, people who are religious in the sense of religion we normally focus on today - are often (not all!) blind for the real meaning of loving yourself like the person next to you ... it just means that everyone - no matter of what colour, race, belief, sexuality :love:

Sure - not every person is loveable and we don't have to love everyone (thanks god!) ... but well :shrug: - respect and just letting be should be a thing everyone should be able to ;)

:cuddle:

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take - but by the places and moments that take our breath away! ~Anonymous~ :heart:
:floating:
I am loving my inner self - what about you?
 

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