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Giving Each Other Pleasure
June 3, 2018 at 4:54 pm
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This is not an Area69 topic although it could easily veer off that direction. I read Michel Onfrey's "Atheist Manifesto" a few years ago. He posited that a goal for each atheist should be to give other people pleasure. Music, art, cooking, wine, massage.
I enjoy cooking for others. I enjoy their "Ummms". My son serenades me with his music. My friends and I swap heritage tomatos in the summer. My daughter has taken her skills as a model and photographer to send me amazing photos of my grandson.
Pleasure, anyone?
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RE: Giving Each Other Pleasure
June 3, 2018 at 4:59 pm
What was the general reason (in the book) for having such a goal?
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RE: Giving Each Other Pleasure
June 3, 2018 at 5:06 pm
(June 3, 2018 at 4:59 pm)rskovride Wrote: What was the general reason (in the book) for having such a goal? Onfrey posits a post-Nietzschean philosophy from which we have established that gods are dead. But, most of our lifestyles, philosophies,etc., are rooted in the religious traditions. So, he calls his search for a post religious philosophy "Atheology". Giving others pleasure (As opposed to suffering) is a major focus. The book is the only one I have found translated from the French.
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RE: Giving Each Other Pleasure
June 3, 2018 at 5:13 pm
I make Industrial Music, although I will gladly take plays from the most theisticy of theists.
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RE: Giving Each Other Pleasure
June 3, 2018 at 5:18 pm
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(June 3, 2018 at 4:54 pm)chimp3 Wrote: This is not an Area69 topic although it could easily veer off that direction. I read Michel Onfrey's "Atheist Manifesto" a few years ago. He posited that a goal for each atheist should be to give other people pleasure. Music, art, cooking, wine, massage.
I enjoy cooking for others. I enjoy their "Ummms". My son serenades me with his music. My friends and I swap heritage tomatos in the summer. My daughter has taken her skills as a model and photographer to send me amazing photos of my grandson.
Pleasure, anyone?
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RE: Giving Each Other Pleasure
June 3, 2018 at 5:36 pm
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(June 3, 2018 at 5:18 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (June 3, 2018 at 4:54 pm)chimp3 Wrote: This is not an Area69 topic although it could easily veer off that direction. I read Michel Onfrey's "Atheist Manifesto" a few years ago. He posited that a goal for each atheist should be to give other people pleasure. Music, art, cooking, wine, massage.
I enjoy cooking for others. I enjoy their "Ummms". My son serenades me with his music. My friends and I swap heritage tomatos in the summer. My daughter has taken her skills as a model and photographer to send me amazing photos of my grandson.
Pleasure, anyone?
Airplane, "Johny, have you ever been inside a Turkish prison"?
Kentucky Fried Movie, "Catholic Highschool Girls In Trouble."
But then again, I am dating myself, Rosy Palm and her 5 sisters.
Oh, you wanted serious? Nothing to see here, ignore the train wreck.!
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RE: Giving Each Other Pleasure
June 3, 2018 at 5:39 pm
(June 3, 2018 at 4:54 pm)chimp3 Wrote: This is not an Area69 topic although it could easily veer off that direction. I read Michel Onfrey's "Atheist Manifesto" a few years ago. He posited that a goal for each atheist should be to give other people pleasure. Music, art, cooking, wine, massage.
I enjoy cooking for others. I enjoy their "Ummms". My son serenades me with his music. My friends and I swap heritage tomatos in the summer. My daughter has taken her skills as a model and photographer to send me amazing photos of my grandson.
Pleasure, anyone?
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RE: Giving Each Other Pleasure
June 3, 2018 at 5:42 pm
(June 3, 2018 at 5:39 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: (June 3, 2018 at 4:54 pm)chimp3 Wrote: This is not an Area69 topic although it could easily veer off that direction. I read Michel Onfrey's "Atheist Manifesto" a few years ago. He posited that a goal for each atheist should be to give other people pleasure. Music, art, cooking, wine, massage.
I enjoy cooking for others. I enjoy their "Ummms". My son serenades me with his music. My friends and I swap heritage tomatos in the summer. My daughter has taken her skills as a model and photographer to send me amazing photos of my grandson.
Pleasure, anyone?
I love kissin’ them babes at bed time. 😍
Ummmm! Oxytocin!
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RE: Giving Each Other Pleasure
June 3, 2018 at 10:01 pm
OP: Why shouldn't this be a goal for every human, atheist or not? The same as not intentionally giving pain.
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RE: Giving Each Other Pleasure
June 4, 2018 at 5:52 am
(June 3, 2018 at 10:01 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: OP: Why shouldn't this be a goal for every human, atheist or not? The same as not intentionally giving pain.
(oh shit, hope Valk isn't reading)
No reason!
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