Bobkgin -> RE: "Love Reign O'er Me" (9/1/2007 6:47:22 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Darcyandthedark Hello Cyndi - the font problem is probably my doing...as you posted my quote! I simply do not see your submission or anyone elses as selfless. You gain from the arrangement in some way or another. When you gain, negative or positive when you have consented means that you are doing so to achieve something - regardless of anyone and anything else. That is selfishness. Only the enlightened are selfless. Peace the.dark. the dark ...thank you for your response : ) this response makes sense to me... yes, in its most innocent and simplistic intention> I do gain from the arrangement....if for no other reason, a "place for my submission" .. I suppose what I wrinkled at> was the "negative conotation" that seems to follow the term selfishness... even the book definition of it is negative and filled with " me me me" ideals...( which I guess was what I was really rejecting/questioning in my feelings about my personal submission) .. thanks the dark : ) Despite what dark claims, Cyndi, "selflessness" is not an absolute condition, but a comparative state: "selfless" compared to what? I recognize there are those who are more selfless than I, because they can give of themselves in ways I cannot. Thus my love and respect for them. According to dark, selfless people are undesirable, apparently because they are "perfect" and "enlightened". dark does not appear to recognize that becoming selfless is a process, and predicts (without experience) that completing that process renders one undesirable. I find it rather ridiculous to suggest that if selfishness is desirable, then selfish masters would find selfless slaves to be undesirable. Defies all reason. It also defies all reason to think selfless slaves would desire a selfish master who will not consider their needs (note the word "needs", not "desires") first. We have Stephann's example to show us what the selfish 'master' would do if the selfless "partner" developed cancer. Want to selflessly serve someone who dumps you because your cancer means you're no fun for the 'master' anymore and he has to worry about himself first? I find it hard to imagine anyone saying yes to that too.
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