William West has a new website, dedicated to himself. The good stuff is of course restricted, sadly, but if you have a credit card you should have no problem getting to it. The big downside is that I am not in possession of such a card, so I'm hoping this material will pop up somewhere I can get to it or become available to poor Dutch students in an alternative fashion.
My posts seem without any really fantastic content lately, they're also not very frequent. I am still not very much in the rhythm of school-going yet, I hope this will not take too long though. Weekends are wrecking me and the highly variable times for the colleges aren't helping much in getting me into the groove.
School, regardless, is swell. I believe I am doing well and I enjoy most of the classes. Some of the colleges are given by lecturers I dislike so I am planning to skip them in the future. Apart from bad lecturers, my fellow students seem unaware of the importance of shutting up during a college, making for much irritation. My classmates are generally nice and motivated, though there are a few distant ones who seem to have trouble fitting in, as well as some very young girls who appear either out of their league or too occupied with business other than school. I am incidentally recruiting people for the Red Cross, I'm sure they have need for good medics, which nursing students are likely to make... right?
Concerning the Red Cross, I am to co-coordinate the start half of a large international running event, called the 4 Mile of Groningen. I had a completely pointless meeting about it yesterday evening and am still awaiting the latest concept-version of the programme. Fortunately the Red Cross is quite autonomous when it comes to coordinating events, so we don't need to be worried. I would like to be able to get some in-depth information on the event though... Strangely, I lost a colleague last year at this very event, it seems odd they are promoting me; but that is a different story entirely.
There has been a little shake-up at the Red Cross department I'm with, which has opened up some sights into the organization. I'm very eager to learn more about it, since I intend to delve into that when I stop being a scoutmaster, would that happen any time soon.
The COC is on hold right now, very little is happening for as far as I can tell and I'm not doing any presentations at schools. Mainly because I don't have time. I'm a little worried though, our previous coordinator has quit and left two new ones in charge, I hope they are up to the job, especially since many of the guys and girls we had last year to do presentations, have quit.
And I'm investigating more into the world of paedophilia. I know it's a heavy subject in almost all surroundings, but I guess I don't care that much about people's feelings, I care more about what they think is true. Basically I sympathize with them, I think I'll try to see if my COC department can do anything for them and I'm doing some small stuff for the organization for paedophiles in the Netherlands, Martijn.org, which forum I've delved into for the past year or so. I recently went to a meeting to see what I could do for them, not much was discussed but the crowd is pleasant enough and I had some good discussions with the 'key figures' of the organization. Though I sympathize because paedophiles are what I'd like to call the 'last scapegoats', highly demonized by popular culture and politics and all mention forbidden; I do find myself having trouble with the imbalance of power in adult-child relationships and the potential for harm to the child because of the relationship - regardless of the intentions of the adult.
Food for thought, that's for sure. Humanism goes a long way for me, let's just hope people will be able to see that instead of persecuting me for my neutrality.
Talking of neutrality, because of my friendship with two opposite parties within the Red Cross department, I had to actually say out loud that I try to remain neutral. An older woman who is a friend witnessed me talking amicably with a guy who is also a friend of mine. She went up to me and sneered inquiring whether I was siding with him. I answered "No, I seek to be neutral.". Which brought about evident disappointment to her face, but solved the issue for that moment. I think I'll have to get into that again later...
Besides the little struggle with the object of paedophilia, I'm feeling a little worried about my reputation. People are crazy when it comes to subjects like this and this might endanger my future career. Then again this is what I am interested in at the moment and, much like the Stormfront.org thing of a couple of years back, though people might mistake me for a paedophile, or likewise a racist, I'm pretty confident truth will win out and transparency will aid me in such.
Come to think of it, there haven't been many naked guys here for a while...
My posts seem without any really fantastic content lately, they're also not very frequent. I am still not very much in the rhythm of school-going yet, I hope this will not take too long though. Weekends are wrecking me and the highly variable times for the colleges aren't helping much in getting me into the groove.School, regardless, is swell. I believe I am doing well and I enjoy most of the classes. Some of the colleges are given by lecturers I dislike so I am planning to skip them in the future. Apart from bad lecturers, my fellow students seem unaware of the importance of shutting up during a college, making for much irritation. My classmates are generally nice and motivated, though there are a few distant ones who seem to have trouble fitting in, as well as some very young girls who appear either out of their league or too occupied with business other than school. I am incidentally recruiting people for the Red Cross, I'm sure they have need for good medics, which nursing students are likely to make... right?
Concerning the Red Cross, I am to co-coordinate the start half of a large international running event, called the 4 Mile of Groningen. I had a completely pointless meeting about it yesterday evening and am still awaiting the latest concept-version of the programme. Fortunately the Red Cross is quite autonomous when it comes to coordinating events, so we don't need to be worried. I would like to be able to get some in-depth information on the event though... Strangely, I lost a colleague last year at this very event, it seems odd they are promoting me; but that is a different story entirely.
There has been a little shake-up at the Red Cross department I'm with, which has opened up some sights into the organization. I'm very eager to learn more about it, since I intend to delve into that when I stop being a scoutmaster, would that happen any time soon.
The COC is on hold right now, very little is happening for as far as I can tell and I'm not doing any presentations at schools. Mainly because I don't have time. I'm a little worried though, our previous coordinator has quit and left two new ones in charge, I hope they are up to the job, especially since many of the guys and girls we had last year to do presentations, have quit.
And I'm investigating more into the world of paedophilia. I know it's a heavy subject in almost all surroundings, but I guess I don't care that much about people's feelings, I care more about what they think is true. Basically I sympathize with them, I think I'll try to see if my COC department can do anything for them and I'm doing some small stuff for the organization for paedophiles in the Netherlands, Martijn.org, which forum I've delved into for the past year or so. I recently went to a meeting to see what I could do for them, not much was discussed but the crowd is pleasant enough and I had some good discussions with the 'key figures' of the organization. Though I sympathize because paedophiles are what I'd like to call the 'last scapegoats', highly demonized by popular culture and politics and all mention forbidden; I do find myself having trouble with the imbalance of power in adult-child relationships and the potential for harm to the child because of the relationship - regardless of the intentions of the adult.
Food for thought, that's for sure. Humanism goes a long way for me, let's just hope people will be able to see that instead of persecuting me for my neutrality.
Talking of neutrality, because of my friendship with two opposite parties within the Red Cross department, I had to actually say out loud that I try to remain neutral. An older woman who is a friend witnessed me talking amicably with a guy who is also a friend of mine. She went up to me and sneered inquiring whether I was siding with him. I answered "No, I seek to be neutral.". Which brought about evident disappointment to her face, but solved the issue for that moment. I think I'll have to get into that again later...
Besides the little struggle with the object of paedophilia, I'm feeling a little worried about my reputation. People are crazy when it comes to subjects like this and this might endanger my future career. Then again this is what I am interested in at the moment and, much like the Stormfront.org thing of a couple of years back, though people might mistake me for a paedophile, or likewise a racist, I'm pretty confident truth will win out and transparency will aid me in such.
Come to think of it, there haven't been many naked guys here for a while...
5 comments:
If you don't have pedophile (U.S. as oppposed to British spelling)tendencies yourself and are not a psychology, sociology, or social anthropology major doing research on that subject, I think you're playing with fire in associating with and lending support to that organization.
If children (12 and under) were meant to fuck, most of them would reach puberty much earlier; have orifices large enough to withstand adult penetration comfortably, and be emotionally equipped for sexual/romantic relationships.
I think you have a point, and I'm not out on the subject yet myself - meaning I'm not sure I want to take this risk. I am sure I'm not a paedophile (British spelling), I did honestly toy with the idea of sex with guys under 16, but that was when I was around that age myself.
I prefer British spelling, so my auto-dictionaries are always UK English. I guess it has more similarities with the Dutch language, or at least language I'm used to. For the rest, it seems more fancy :p
Opposed to Indio: I admire you for your honesty, making your own choices and not running with mass hysteria.
He indeed seems to have quite a sick mind when he thinks the issue is about allowing penetration of minors. In my view it is having an open ear for a young generation, which over the past decades seems to be getting into puberty at an ever younger age. I think walking away from that is far more dangerous: when I was young I felt very much left in the cold with my awakening questions about sexual identity. I was very much looking for intimacy with older guys back then, yet, that has not left me with a drop of sexual curiosity towards minors.
Also: you cannot always remain friends with everybody and duck taking a stand, especially in on-the-outside non political, but on the inside highly devided orgs like the Red Cross or COC.
came across these youtube clips of a guy that is appearantly studying child psychology or responsible parenthood or something like that and on top of that he's very funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M62hwinV7c&feature=related
if you want to see him dance look at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md8KOhovLLY (he also does some porn under the name chip tanner)
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