On 15 Dec 2009 at 18:53, Arlo Bensinger wrote: > [Platt] > Speaking of "egoistic selfish desires," Mother Theresa was a shining > example. What she did filled her heart with joy... > > [Arlo] > One of the more devastating fictions trumpeted by the right. > > How do you know her heart was not filled with sorrow seeing so many > suffer? Maybe she hated that her life had to spent caring for others > rather than lounging on a beach drinking mai tais? Maybe her constant > contact with the world's castoffs led her to secretly be consumed by > the worst of contempt for humanity? > > Aside from this, she did not act out of "egoistic selfish desire", > she acted not in her own interests, but she set aside her own wants > and needs in order to help others. > > By your misguided notion, nothing we do can ever be anything but > egoistic. If I run into a burning house to save a baby, it is because > such an act makes me feel good. There can never be real "sacrifice", > since sacrifice is always done to serve the egoism of the sacrificer. > Hell, I bet you'd tell Christians that Jesus did not sacrifice > himself, he acted with egoistic selfish desire, because playing a > martyr filled his heart with joy. Selfish prick. What a strange and > warped world you inhabit. I am happy not to be a part of that.
You're the warped one, my friend, unable to face reality. But I'm not surprised you enjoy being miserable. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
