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Love — No Contradictions Possible

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

I made the color scheme of this blog black and white long ago. While it has always attracted a polarization of the topics discussed, this seems to have increased as time has passed, resulting in a quality of comments that  are increasingly rational on one end, and increasingly irrational on the other. Readers of this blog, more and more, are getting it, or not getting it at all.

And I am pleased to see it.

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Eva, a recent commenter on this blog, left some counterfeit gems of wisdom that I am now going to selectively rip apart for the lies that they are.

Here is the full comment (link)

Love means different things to different people. I’m sorry to hear that your entire purpose in life is this selfish concept that you have defined for yourself according to some book you have read. The video does not refer to romantic love, but love in general. There is nothing wrong with selfish love, to each their…

The Next Big Thing — Mature Romantic Love

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

What is romantic love?

It is not a,

  • literary invention
  • hollywood invention
  • adolescent fantasy
  • impossible/irrational goal

To the contrary, mature romantic love is an achievable, fully rational ideal. It is completely conditional, and one million percent selfish.

It is one of the highest and most noble expressions of happiness, and your joy on this earth — the proper, and only moral purpose of your life.

It is the fundamental sum of your convictions for some one person — in thought, in emotion, in attraction, in admiration, in spirit, and in your shared sense of life with this person  – a shared facing of existence in the deepest method possible to the both of you.

Romantic love is not what the mindless mystics — like Eckhart Tolle — and bankrupt intellectuals of our day tell you — like this moron, riddled with contradictions like a whore with more STDs than she can count.

 
I have no mercy for this idiot because she has committed a deadly sin — she has chosen…

This Woman Has No Idea What She is Talking About

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

 
This woman attempts to intelligently discuss the science of romantic love, yet can’t even distinguish between an unhealthy, dependent, drug-like addiction, and mature, romantic, reciprocal romantic love for an independent equal (autonomy and self-reliance being necessary components of mature romantic love).

This woman’s view of romantic love is the pinnacle of a reductionist view that is tantamount to saying “consciousness kills”. I find it abhorrent that this woman is considered as an “authority” on romantic love, but what else is new — the status quo is clueless, and the TED event puts any raving idiot on stage with a bunch of non-sense to spout off.

Putting a big projector screen behind someone does not grant validity to their ideas. Nice one-liner cliche’s though.

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If you want to learn something about romantic love, read this.

– Anthony Dream Johnson

Clarifying “Uncertainty over Unhappiness”

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Curtis Noll, Independent Thinking, Lifestyle Design

In my 2010 Stockholm speech I discussed unhappiness and uncertainty, and how I chose uncertainty over unhappiness — when it mattered most, and when I was not getting the details right (when I was screwing stuff up).

I will clarify what I mean by this today — choosing uncertainty over unhappiness.

Clarify because I see it as necessary to get my ultimate point across, because I have come to further understand the gravity of what I was saying … and because I have come to understand that this is one of the greatest gifts my best friend gave me before his death — and that this is an expression of the greatest sensation man can experience.

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When James Galt II chose uncertainty over unhappiness (in regards to a work related decision if I’m not mistaken), little did he know, I think, that in the process of choosing “uncertainty”, he was choosing his own certainty.

He chose to…