Ok, I thought *I* was turning curmudgeonly, but I see Arlo's got it in spades.... whew! Who'da thunk I'd find somebody more cynical than moi?
John the chastised On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Arlo Bensinger <[email protected]> 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. > > > 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/ > 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/
