(February 6, 2016 at 12:20 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(February 5, 2016 at 11:34 pm)Irrational Wrote: Yeah ... well, try not having sex for life. Let's see if you would wish such a beautiful life on others as well.
This is what he said exactly, by the way:
So what he refers to as an example of "beautiful" is choosing to not get married to someone he loves and not having sex with them, and wishing such "beautiful" life for others ... This might not mean he's saying he wishes all were celibate, but he certainly wishes others lived a hard life like him, a life which he happens to call "beautiful". And it does seem obvious he wishes homosexual people to be celibate like him ...
This, to me (and I'm sure to many others as well) translates to "wishing a life of suffering on others". That's all there is to it.
Why don't you ask him? Accusing someone of wanting others to suffer is a very horrible accusation to make at another person. His website is on the OP. I checked it out and it links to his facebook account and to his Twitter. Go on there, write him a PM, and ask him "Hey, by what you wrote, did you mean to say you want people to suffer? DO you in fact want people to suffer?" I did not get that message at all, but if you're so convinced, why not ask? That way we can settle this once and for all without making incriminating accusations about another person which might turn out to be completely false.
Sigh ... no, because I'm very sure he would answer "no", thus contradicting some of his thoughts as expressed in the article.
He is not explicitly saying he wants others to suffer, nor have I actually said he did. But the context does say he wants others to live this hard but (in his mind, also beautiful) life like him.
To repeat: He himself is saying he doesn't get to do what he (his flesh) wants to do, and that he wishes others could live a life like his, where fleshly desires are prohibited or restricted for the sake of spirituality and connection with God. This restricting one's life by, for example, not having sex for the rest of your life even when you have the desire to is suffering. Don't tell me it's not.
You are the only one here, by the way, arguing with me about this. Perhaps if I really am getting it all wrong, someone else can chime in and tell me I need to reexamine my interpretation here?
