(December 2, 2014 at 11:33 pm)whateverist Wrote: I guess I'm not really that into the whole bondage sex thing. (Sorry ladies, now the truth comes out.)
It's alright. There's only one man I've tied up for the last 20 years.
(December 2, 2014 at 11:33 pm)whateverist Wrote: When I read this I thought about how much and when we exercise executive control and when we bend to something else. Surely everyone has an outlet, a time or circumstance when they adopt a receptive mode instead. I've heard novelists describe how certain passages happen when they stop trying to figure out what they need to have characters say and simply record the dialogue they 'hear'. Surely something like that applies in any creative endeavor.
Hmm. . . I think that what we are hearing when we do that is our sub-conscience. Good artistic things can come from there, though, and here's where I pick up the BDSM metaphor, riding your subconsciousness and being subservient to it are quite different.
(December 2, 2014 at 11:33 pm)whateverist Wrote: Something else I think about in connection to this is the idea of being free to choose what you like .. but not what it is you are disposed to like. At some point you don't .. can't .. choose everything. At some point you trust something and if that's nothing but what you can prove, that is one kind of defect. Taking no control over your life -giving it all over to 'god' or whatever- that would be another kind of defect.
Exactly. And we choose to love. Worship suggests trust and love chosen in defeat.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
