[quote]Severiano wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
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[quote]SexMachine wrote:
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[quote]magick wrote:
[quote]Severiano wrote:
So, a lot of you really believe that essence precedes existence, rather than the opposite?
Like, being born for a certain purpose rather than being born and figuring shit out for yourself. We aren’t cups meant for drinking, or chairs made for sitting in, or creatures made to fulfill Gods prophecy or whatever…
Stop being cowards and find your own meaning. Bunch of sorry old emo sloppy vaginas. [/quote]
I find it amusing that you think people deciding that their meaning in life involves God is not equal to whatever you consider your meaning in life.
It’s as if… you think there’s a point to life that actually trumps whatever other people decide is the point to life!
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I didn’t start there, but that is what I can conclude based off of what the people here tend to post, as well as what I’ve seen elsewhere in the world.
Religion is great for the damaged/hopeless or weak minded, uneducated… But religion for the whole of humankind is more dangerous as it tends to create the same sort of dangerous indifference among people with different religions as things like nationalism with nations, and racism with races.
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Religion is part of identity. Everyone has an identity in the sense that they can only exist in relation to and in association with others. But your identity isn’t real it’s just a frame of reference. Identity breaks down when you look at what it really is.
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Religion isn’t necessary for identity, unless you are weak minded or uneducated in some way.
Religion is actually part of my identity because it is part of my history, but that is my personal identity… It is my own and nobody elses… Religion didn’t necessitate me having an identity, it was simply something I was born into. My poor grandparents didn’t know any better and taught my mother, who taught me.
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I didn’t say religion had to be part of your identity. Dasein is thrown into the world and defines and orients itself in relation to others. This is identity. It’s a frame of reference through which you are being-in-the-world.[/quote]
We are born into a world, and as long as we are self aware we are able to have a sort of definition of self if you want to call it that. Our identity is composed of the many things we identify with. As a whole, as humans we do things like evolve via various means, like introspection and experience that allow us to adapt and change.
One of the things that stifles our progress is the inability or unwillingness to entertain scary possibilities, that are perhaps likely the case. In the case where people are unwilling to accept new realities, because they are comfortable with old ones that don’t make sense, I call those people cowards, weak or uneducated.
The whole of being critical against say homosexuals is something I’ve already admitted I took part in. Yeah, I was a homophobe in part because of religion and also because of society which helped to form my identity. But, as I went to school and learned via various athrobiology classes that homosexuality among males is largely genetic or environmental and not choice, as well as having a close friends family member turn out to be gay I was able to adapt and change my identity in such a way that I was no longer a homophobe.
But, someone who is religious always has to hold onto ideas from the book that says man should not lay with other men the way he lays with women, or whatever saying there is along those terms. If your morality is tied to a rigid book, it cannot adapt and grow. [/quote]
My appeal is not to the bible but to traditionalism. For example, in the old days a woman with a beard was something you’d see maybe once as a geek in a carnival biting the head off a chicken. But now women with beards are part of a radical political faction employing ideological subversion campaigns to get access to children under the pretext of “anti-bullying” or something and teach them about the fluidity of their genders and so on. This gender studies stuff has gone off the planet now and you’ve got kids on social media with gender clubs where their minds are warped. So you get all these kids calling themselves gender queer because it’s the latest thing on tumblr. We’re getting a generation of people whose minds have been utterly warped by FreudoMarxism. [/quote]
People, especially kids follow stupid trends because they are still in the process of finding their own identity. The same sort of shit happened in Catholic/Christian history with the Florentines, and while I’m at it most if Italy especially during the Renaissance. It was the norm for non married men to be total pedophiles and have little male conquests to practice on before they eventually got married to a woman. Little boys were objectified like that… So yeah… FreudoMarxism what? Christians were doing that shit long before Freud or Marx. We should call that ChristianSexmachineism.[/quote]
FreudoMarxism is the sexual political. Moreover, it is inherently subversive because it was based on the actual sexual pathologies of Freud himself. FreudoMarxism attacks the traditionalism of the church. But it replaces it with the absurd. As feminism and gay rights became political forces FreudoMarxism became an ideological subversion device of the New Left against the church and traditionalism. It’s now used to radicalise the landscape and further the agenda of an ever increasing number of people with similar pathologies to Freud’s.