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| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Not to each his own. You are an animal seemingly in denial of his own tendencies; willfully foregoing the point of your being which, so far as practicality is concerned, places you somewhere between awkward and useless.
You're saving your purity for ideals which supposedly "transcend" your condition as a physical being... I wonder if you will ever come to fully realize that nobody has any purity to begin with.
At least Sarah Palin would be proud of your sanctimonious endeavors. In fact, her family could probably learn something from you. |
I appreciate your enthusiasm to uplift my uniqueness, but it is not a uniqueness that I wear as a badge of honor, it is simply something I happily chose to do on a personal level. It is my choice just as much as it is my choice to not drink. While I do not believe it is wrong to consume alcohol, I truly believe that there are more enjoyable things to do with my time -- and I also hate what alcohol did to certain people that I know or have heard about. I am happy not to drink and I'm happy to be a sexual being within the boundaries aforementioned.
You can believe that we are all animals; more power to you. Animals, however, have can have no concept of this discussion. They do not squabble amongst themselves about the finer points of distance relationships. We are like animals in many respects: Requiring the same forms of sustenance, propagating ourselves from two sexes, having instinctive behaviors, organs that follow a similar line of biological adaption, senses and electrical-chemical motor functions. If that is your guidelines to how behavior is organized, we'll happily agree to disagree. We both have better things to do with our time, so let's shake on it and listen to/compose music instead.
I never said that anybody has purity. You've got it... no one is pure by the highest defining values testing it! I'm no saint by any definition of the word. I may be a virgin, but I have lustful tendencies as anyone else that has always been a work in progress. No one is perfect and I do not claim to be better than you. In fact, there were times when I masturbated more at the same time that I was objectifying women, or having more lustful eye. That is not a coincidence, it is a sense of maleness that a man has the power to control.
Sarah Palin is a politician. I have no aspirations to please any one of them. I am a skeptic of anyone who claims to be the cure-all to society.
I have no desire to "transcend" my physical existence or attain some unique astral projection. Let me ask you a question for argument's sake: do you know anyone who claimed to 'love' someone and everything between the couple looked like a bonfire and then it quickly dissipated into a wretched breakup sometime later (he loves her, but that's what he said about the last one)? Granted some are more responsible for others, but what happened to this 'love'? Granted, there are viable reasons that one person would be unfaithful to another, and cause the relationship to disintegrate, but what do we typically see in that motivating factor by the offending party? We cannot expect our partner to do something that we would not do for them ourselves. To someone's mind, this is a shackle; to another, it is a tranquil understanding.
You see, there is nothing more unstable than emotions. They are what we live by, but society would cease to function is emotions were elevated above the mind. Emotions are best 'idealized' as the caboose of the train car.
Being responsible is the best we can do, and there are no guarantees after that. When it comes to sex, sex is the ultimate bond between two people. I would feel hurt if my wife cheated on me, and she would feel the same in the opposite respect; rightly so. Take purity to the ultimate degree, and you have yourself an unattainable work-in-progress that is one of those tasks that falls in the category of "Anything that is worth doing is worth doing well".
What you have to say is reasonable statement by today's standards. However, I come at that from a different perspective. I read that as being 'what do I get out of this relationship'? If I love my girl because in her eyes I can do nothing wrong, are we not building this relationship off the shaky ground of emotions? Emotions are a great spark, but they must be evaluated. A couple must have an agreement, a covenant, if you will. They must be realistic and forthcoming and approach marriage as the most important decision of their lives.
The girl must probably think the same thing, right? What does she get out of the relationship. There has to be something deeper to love than a business contract -- a continual cycle of supply and demand over an exchange of chemicals.
There is nothing wrong with idealism, and in some cases, you'll agree. Idealism is quite resilient. It can rescue love from the fire of emotions, prosper science, provide aid to the fellow man, kill soldiers, reflect life back in the realm of art, and live beyond a number of generations. It is one of the many things that transcends human beings from the animal kingdom. Nothing is as arcane and yet possessing so much concrete yields. Now that I've stepped out of the seventh circle of abstractness...
I do not consider myself awkward nor useless, and I know for a fact that you are not either. Every human life networks with others and creates a unique tapestry that causes this little green speck globe to glimmer. I do not have to be 'sexually' free by some standards to do anything with my life that is deemed important by another. Life is so much more than sex, that this realization in itself is quite liberating and makes life out to be an adventurous journey than a do-and-die pleasure factory.
That's my life... and I see that since I've turned myself into a spectacle that I'll respectfully thank you for your time and wish all of you the best of luck in your endeavors.
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...On college-driven hiatus...
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