12-14-2020, 02:48 AM
(12-13-2020, 09:30 AM)Patrick Wrote:Ra Wrote:...This game can only be won by those who lose their cards in the melting influence of love; can only be won by those who lay their pleasures, their limitations, their all upon the table face up and say inwardly: “All, all of you players, each other-self, whatever your hand, I love you.”...
But right now, letting the melting influence of love have me, seems to be SO MUCH EASIER than what the negative path has to offer.
Maybe, maybe not. I love you above can mean, "I wish you to be so much more beautiful than you are now. Just allow me to reform you in the image that pleases me."
Chances are, Patrick, you live in either an urban or suburban area which was utterly denatured to create housing for you. You would be the beneficiary, in that case, of the prostituting of nature in a STS manner, would you not? Is that not easy for you? Would it not be easy, as well, to go one step further, then another step and another towards lovingly reforming your environment, and then maybe your social setting and so forth to suit your personal needs?
I'm, of course, not typing this to pester you, but to make the point that the "left hand path" can really be about as close to us as our left hand, as it were. Adherents needn't all be thugs; some would be far more "civilized." And this can make the path "easier," to be sure.