QUOTES 10/27/2016

“When you're around a bunch of naked people and you're the one wearing clothes, you feel like an idiot.” – Eddie Matz, https://toplesspulp.com/2016/07/31/keeping-us-in-suspense/

“. . . on a nude beach, men and women are both naked and equal.  On every other beach . . . it seems to me women are expected to ‘show off their goods’ while men are modestly covered in long trunks, and as often as not, a t-shirt as well.  Given all the rhetoric about the sexual implications of mixed gender nudity, the swimsuit inequality simply doesn’t make sense.” - https://meanderingnaturist.wordpress.com/2015/08/

“The Sharia, Islam’s canon law, is traceable to Koranic verses and edicts (45:18, 42:13, 42:21, 5:48; 4:34, 5:33-34, 5:38, 8:12-14; 9:5, 9:29, 24:2-4), as further elaborated in the ‘hadith’ - the traditions of Islam’s prophet Muhammad and the earliest Muslim community - and codified into formal ‘legal’ rulings by Islam’s greatest classical legists.  Sharia is a retrogressive development compared with the evolution of clear distinctions between ‘ritual, the law, moral doctrine, good customs in society, etc.,’ within Western European Christendom.  Sharia is utterly incompatible with the conceptions of human rights enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights.  Here are some liberty-crushing, dehumanizing Sharia sanctions: open-ended jihadism to subjugate the world to a totalitarian Islamic order; rejection of bedrock Western liberties - including freedom of conscience and speech - enforced by imprisonment, beating, or death; discriminatory relegation of non-Muslims to outcast, vulnerable pariahs, and even Muslim women to subservient chattel; and barbaric punishments which violate human dignity such as amputation for theft, stoning to death for adultery, and lashing for alcohol consumption.  Compounding these fundamental freedom and dignity-abrogating iniquities, ‘matters of procedure’ under Sharia are antithetical to Western conceptions of the rule of law. ‘Evidentiary proof’ is non-existent by Western legal standards, and the Sharia doctrine of siyasa (‘government’ or ‘administration’), grants wide latitude to the ruling elites – rendering permissible arbitrary threats, beatings, and imprisonments of defendants to extract ‘confessions,’ particularly from ‘dubious’ suspects.  Clearly, Sharia ‘standards’ are intellectually and morally inferior to the antithetical concepts which underpin Western law.” – Andrew G. Bostom, https://pjmedia.com/blog/shocking-polls-show-what-u-s-muslims-think-of-u-s-laws/

“We know our neighbors, the only next door neighbor we have, have seen us naked in our backyard.  We've entertained our close nudist friends many times and at any time, there can be between 4-8 naked people walking around or lounging in the sun next to the pool.  I'm out there every day, most of the day and these neighbors finally closed their shutters to give us the privacy we deserve.  The previous owners of this neighboring home saw us naked and the woman didn't like it but her husband told her ‘then stop looking!’ . . . He, on the other hand, loved to talk and he'd hear me in the back and he'd look over the 5.5 ft fence and . . . I'd stand there naked and he'd be on some concrete block or some stool so his head was well above the fence line.  I think he wanted to join in . . . Our neighbors across the way have seen me/us and they just smile and wave.  The ol' guy across the street with a second story outdoor patio off their master bedroom was out on his patio the other day and I'm pretty sure he was naked.   He's seen me so many times and he's always waving and he talks to me all the time but the subject never comes up.  He got up the other day to walk in their house and unless he's taken to wearing his pants down low like the kids ... I'm pretty sure he was naked up on his balcony.  Maybe we've rubbed off on him.” – AndyDi, https://www.truenudists.com/groups/view.php?action=viewthread&id=92&idt=102588&page=last

“There’s a noticeable difference in the gaze of the naturist eye—it looks at others without judgment. . . Being a naturist is to unflinchingly see the bare truth in so many ways.” – Keegan Wallis, http://www.themindfulword.org/2015/living-naturally-without-clothes-naturist/