Hey everyone, opinions please?

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What did I just read?

There is only one person that you should ever have to answer to and that is yourself. As your brother, I have so much more experience about what you are like and how you react to certain things that this has caught me quite off guard too. I never took you to be a person of that... standing, for lack of a better word at this moment in time.

I'm going to read all of this then maybe I will be able to clarify my position.

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Well, lets put forward a few things before I go on. Firstly, I am saddened that you couldn't tell me, being what I am to you, especially knowing that if you didn't want anyone else to know that it would reamin as such. Secondly, love, no matter who it is to, is an emotion that is, as a human, a natural process. Even though there are many variations of it, they all are something to be cherished, not slandered, which is where religion should not be implicated AT ALL in this thread, no matter whether you are for it or not. Thirdly, to go off in a tangent as such that you implode on what is seemingly your social display is completely uncharacteristic for you, especially after the things we have said about it, humourous and unhumourous.

Now, this revelation is quite a zealous thing to state, and one that should not be taken so lightly. Many people feel and think that admitting love for another based on gender similarities is harder, but it is not, and I will heavily refute those who say otherwise. Nevertheless, I never thought that you would say anything like this, especially after continuing about another at your school.

My stance if I had been able to give it would have been, if you are very good friends, then you do not say, in fear of how awkward it may become between you, whereas if you aren't as good friends, then there is less to risk.

I would however, have to agree with everything that has been said now, seeing that you have said. I am just slightly saddened about the way you went about this.

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Timewarp has basically just put across the same point I was trying to make in a far less harsh manner and I really do apologise for the harshness. I tend to be blunt and to the point. Sometimes a good thing, sometimes a bad thing, but it is part of me and its not gonna change.

And Cs....Bree will not hate you. She will not scream. I doubt she'll even be annoyed. She is the sort of person to accept people for who they are no matter what.

You have no reason to apologise. I know apologising is part of who you are, but really there is no need. Forums like this, made of friends, are a place to express yourself freely. I know we have rules and from what i've seen you haven't broken any. Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are human rights.

Whoever you are whether you be straight, gay, black or white just be yourself and do it to the best of your ability because there is only ONE you and only you can make yourself the best you possible.

[FlameMaster5]

Well...

*thinks a moment*

After the surprise has kinda subsided, and I have re-read some PMs and the posts on this thread, and thought about things from all sorts of sides...

I just have to wonder...
Why did you think I would hate you, Amy? D:


It makes me both laugh and sigh with some disappointment that you worked yourself all up, setting yourself up for despair, making complicated posts that even I couldn't interpret clearly, and now you're going to do exactly what TW said:
You're just going to feel silly!
Why?
Because I DON'T hate you!
I could never hate you! ^^


I won't play games with your head, ok?
So, I'll just be honest about what I'm going to say.

I don't know if you truly do feel attraction to the physical appearance of me, but even if you did, I wouldn't look at you with disgust because you've known me for a long time to even try to decide if this is how you feel.
In fact, I'm PROUD of you for giving this thought!
If you had been a guy and barely knew me, just coming up and telling me you love me, I'd scoff and dismiss you with an actual harsh look because... You can't love me if you don't know me!
Nobody can. XD

Or, maybe you just fell in love with the idea that their IS a soul close to you, so similar and yet so different, one that could never look upon you with hatred or annoyance.
You feared that I would...
But I don't. :3
And, yeah, you might be thinking I'm just saying all this to not hurt you, or to make you question what you know about me, but I'mma tell ya anyway!

Yes; I'm a Christian.

Yes; By our stereotypical culture, even I find it hard to look at same-sex couples in a non-negative light, and I admit that I have some problems with judgment. This only reminds me that I'm NOT perfect--I have preferences, too, like everyone. But... To hate them? I don't hate them, I just can't fully comprehend what they are feeling because I'm not like them. No good, no bad, not when I look at it from a human perspective. And I am human...

No; I don't hate you, nor am I disgusted by you, nor am I going to avoid you. Despite some inner confusion, I am interested in your feelings and perspectives--hence why I read over and over your posts and PMs, because I WANT to understand.

No; I truthfully do not feel attraction to you in that way. Do not take my honesty for rejecting you, I am merely saying that my preference is in males--and, regardless if this is TMI or not, I have to say I'm still a virgin, so my "urges" are nearly nonexistent even for my age.


What this all comes down to is this:
Amy, you are one of my best-est, best-est friends on the face of this terrible, confusing world. To have you think in any way imaginable that I would hate or disown you is enough to make my own spirit cry out in sorrow. I think about you all the time, wonder what you go through on the other side of the ocean, and wanting nothing more than to be there for you when you are in your darkest hours.
I do love you.
Unconditionally.
And there isn't anything YOU could do to change that.

I might not ever see your face, and I have to be honest about that, too, but I WANT to enough to try! I have no work right now, but I want to change that, and I want to make a life for myself. And, when I can, I want to come visit you, all of you.
Because...
You're my family, yanno? :3
And I would put my well-being aside for any chance to ensure yours.


Don't worry about this.
I'm glad to know.
I only wished you came and clearly told me, even if bluntly in big ass bold letters to bonk me on the head with the reality of what you are feeling, something like this:
Bree... I LOVE YOU!
And, yanno, with added detail so my brain would understand what kind of love you're talkin' about, and all. ^^
Because that's ok!
We're friends, right?
You can always tell me things. Anything.
(Blaze could vouch for this--I mean it.)


So...
We cool? :3

[CS Revolked]

I'll just say we're cool and hope someone locks this thread and buries it deep within the core of the Earth.

[Timewarp]

Yeah I'm thinking I'll lock this, I don't think we need this thread anymore, CS wants me to and I've never locked a thread before.