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One of the friendships I most value in my life, I formed meeting for the more transactional version of this: at a brothel. I made a lifelong friend because I co
by eyelidlessness 5y ago
One of the friendships I most value in my life, I formed meeting for the more transactional version of this: at a brothel. I made a lifelong friend because I connected with someone, even though I was paying for sex.
I’m not expecting to change your mind about whether this kind of interaction can become a meaningful connection. But I know from experience it doesn’t have to be empty.
- chasil 5y agoPerhaps I am trying to change yours. This is what I have to show you of this experience, and potentially of all others: XXVII Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went. XXVIII With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd-- "I came like Water, and like Wind I go." This is from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyiam. Perhaps the experience had meaning for you. I know what I have read.
- chasil 5y agoThere is a point in your life where this will all be put away, the longing, the regret, the desire, and the complexity. I am beyond that event horizon. Looking out from a "Schwarzschild radius" on what other people choose to suffer, I remember being on the other side. I am not going back. There is a story about one who goes back, Avalokiteshvera. That is not me, for now. None of us have the bandwidth.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI don’t think this is a helpful discussion.
- chasil 5y agoI love the Rubáiyát. This one, above all others. XCIX Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits--and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
- chasil 5y agoI am not your judge. I am not hateful. I am both neutral and an advocate. We should design a social order where all people could be free of impulses in a greater design. I could do this.