If you find it so offensive
that I don't passively accept the *******
you so zealously defend
with phoney statistics and appeals to irrelevant authority,
perhaps you should try to empathize
with how offensive that ******* may be
to a person who values and respects
individuals' divergent opinions.
Then again, in thy defense,
they don't really seem like thy opinions,
they've just been programmed into thee
from a malleable age
by others
who cannot stand a bit of honest dissent
for the sake of earnest
social and spiritual progress.
You're a proper product of your environment.
Your upbringing is bringing you down.
If you want to overgeneralize
and make less options available
that many have fought so hard to make possible,
go live somewhere where you won't have the freedom to choose for yourself
even if it does tend to be an illusion.
But, I know
you don't want to have fewer choices,
you just want others to have fewer choices.
As a philosopher,
I find that ******* disgusting.
Appalling.
Abhorrent.
Evil, even.
If your school of thought
is said to be so 'holy,'
how can it produce such evil people?
I guess it's *******,
either on the teachers' part,
or on the students' part,
or, not unlikely:
both.
A boat that cannot be rocked
is probably an unsafe boat.
A boat that can take a rocking
is more likely to be seaworthy.
It is worth it to find out which boat you're in
before you're committed to it on the open seas of Life.
(Maybe they put you in the unsafe boat on purpose..)
Thy traditionalism
binds thee to a bygone era
of sexism, feudalism, and prejudice.
If it is thy choice
to sacrifice thy free will and curiosity
to that ages old cult,
I venture to claim that you deserve to,
just don't expect any sympathy
from this devout skeptic;
I rock the boat
not to destroy what's good,
but to try to **** out what isn't healthy.
It's nothing personal,
I'm just fond of Devil's Advocacy
in the face of a straw-man argument.
The only thing more blaring
than the fallacies in your claims
is your blind and willing ignorance.
We all seek comfort,
but allowing your intellect to be usurped
for someone else's benefit
is a self-sacrifice seldom worthy of existing.
Some falsely believe that knowledge brings comfort,
but I know that it is only the willingness to deny such comfort
that makes such comfort attainable.
You aren't comfortable,
you're just shut off from the world.
Have the courage to step outside your own mind,
have the courage to step back from yourself and your ego
even if for just a little while,
and perhaps you shall find
that it was only you holding you back,
all along.
Do not hate:
learn;
forgive;
transcend;
seek to understand.
Grow;
nurture;
live;
love:
before it's too late
to reconcile yourself with your truest self.
Stop being used by your mind
and start utilizing it's potential:
be yourself and become the greatest possible actualization of your Godself.
No philosophy is an enemy,
only One's philosophobia is.
Written to no one and everyone. Especially myself.
Written for no one and everyone. Especially myself.
I hope the good outweighs the bad, as well in myself.
There's a colorful backstory to this, but I don't want to delve into it too much. One of my friends recently revealed a rather unflattering, extremely closed minded, gender-role enforcing atrocity of a stance on women's rights. What's worse about it is that she's female!