Quote from: Mike Christ on December 10, 2015, 05:42:41 AM

I'm pretty sure Beliathon was the guy who posted the thread about cutting off his ability to have children (forgive me if I'm wrong.) I wouldn't listen to the decisions of a man who has no stake in the future

No stake?! On the contrary, my stake lies with all humanity eternal! I don't subscribe to the myopic worldview, I refuse to limit my consideration - my compassion - only those few humans who just so happen to share my meager eight decade or so year lifespan. I try to think in terms of all (present and future) sentience. In that perspective, everyone alive is a tiny blip on the scale, a sliver of time so small it's barely noticeable. Not deserving of any special attention or privilege in the grand scheme. The real game, after all, is min/maxing the total suffering/pleasure experienced by all sentient life. We are one.

Having a house, a car, a spouse, kids. These things are how my (American) culture has defined success. I reject it outright.

Quote from: David Orr

The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.

Quote from: Erich Fromm

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

Quote from: Erich Fromm

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

Except the Sauds, fuck them. Crush their heathen nation to the ground under the feet of giant robots, then burn the rubble. Kill the Muslim extremists using bullets dipped in pig's blood, and bring megaphones so they know they're going to hell before they die.

Glory and victory to the Christian west! Death to the infidels, death and suffering!