on hedonism.
On fidelity -
"My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination"
On stupidity -
"To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies."
On original sin -
"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cavemen had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
On beauty -
"Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of the silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has a divine right over sovereignty."
On superficiality -
"People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is in the visible, not the invisible."
Quotes from The Picture of Dorian Grey...
It is truly a book that embodies the Hedonism and the Materialism while justifying that.
Back to the age-old philosophical question - if a tree in the amazon falls, and no one hears it, does that mean that the tree has not fell?
If we were not exposed to the original prudence and "moralistic" natural sequence of things, would Hedonism be said with the tone and tinge of disgust?
What if Hedonism was written into the religious scriptures first?
What if Hedonism and not prudence, simplicity and the rigid inflexibility of black-and-white dictated the moral textbooks? What if that was written into the textbooks first?
What's so wrong with instant gratification? What was so wrong with Hedonism?
I would say that Hedonism is the natural act of human beings, immediately coming after the survival of the fittest, then there came a group of men who decided that the way of life was too "hedonistic" for their preference and decided to write a book saying that it was the hedonistic lifestyles of the humans then that resulted in floods, plagues, famine and volcanic eruptions, aka - the will of the gods. (Just as islamic extremist clerics warn women who reveal their bosoms that Earthquakes are the fault of their swinging exposed racks)
It is human to be hedonist!
Hence with religious freedom, it is only now that such "hedonistic trends" start appearing within society, these "trends" may seem to be the breakaway of the social conventions, moral and societal fabric within society, yet, it is the rawest version of the human nature.
Seeing beyond the ethical views of the human relationships, we are all inherently hedonistic. The reactionary force of responding to pleasure has been implicit within the human body ever since we grew sexual organs. The very invention of an orgasm hallmarks the integration of Hedonism into the human nature and the human conscience. When you use pleasure as an incentive to appeal to the rational human, drawing out the irrationality within the human, in order to continue the human race, we are drawing out the Hedonist, Irrational, and inherently sexual nature of the human. This is underlying in all humans who have the slightest tinge of a hormonal imbalance within the biological body.
Hedonism is irrational. Thought is. Hence by logical conclusion, humans are animalistic, if we are inherently Hedonistic, we are irrational by the very nature of being human.
Who is society to deny us our very natures? It may not be our constitutional rights to rape any one off the streets, but condemning Hedonistic lifestyles is simply looking at appearances, being completely materialistic and looking behind the Hedonism, if there were anything behind it.
They often depict a "Hedonistic" future, I beg to differ. I believe that, we have been living a "Hedonistic" past, and although there has been a moral "gag" on the acts of Hedonism, it still very exists in past societies, we are living in a "Hedonistic" present; albeit severely looked down upon and labelled unconstitutional, inhumane and immoral subcultures. One day we will live one future that the word will not be Hedonism, but the status quo.
What if Hedonism was acknowledged and institutionalized first?
"My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination"
On stupidity -
"To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies."
On original sin -
"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cavemen had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
On beauty -
"Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of the silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has a divine right over sovereignty."
On superficiality -
"People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is in the visible, not the invisible."
Quotes from The Picture of Dorian Grey...
It is truly a book that embodies the Hedonism and the Materialism while justifying that.
Back to the age-old philosophical question - if a tree in the amazon falls, and no one hears it, does that mean that the tree has not fell?
If we were not exposed to the original prudence and "moralistic" natural sequence of things, would Hedonism be said with the tone and tinge of disgust?
What if Hedonism was written into the religious scriptures first?
What if Hedonism and not prudence, simplicity and the rigid inflexibility of black-and-white dictated the moral textbooks? What if that was written into the textbooks first?
What's so wrong with instant gratification? What was so wrong with Hedonism?
I would say that Hedonism is the natural act of human beings, immediately coming after the survival of the fittest, then there came a group of men who decided that the way of life was too "hedonistic" for their preference and decided to write a book saying that it was the hedonistic lifestyles of the humans then that resulted in floods, plagues, famine and volcanic eruptions, aka - the will of the gods. (Just as islamic extremist clerics warn women who reveal their bosoms that Earthquakes are the fault of their swinging exposed racks)
It is human to be hedonist!
Hence with religious freedom, it is only now that such "hedonistic trends" start appearing within society, these "trends" may seem to be the breakaway of the social conventions, moral and societal fabric within society, yet, it is the rawest version of the human nature.
Seeing beyond the ethical views of the human relationships, we are all inherently hedonistic. The reactionary force of responding to pleasure has been implicit within the human body ever since we grew sexual organs. The very invention of an orgasm hallmarks the integration of Hedonism into the human nature and the human conscience. When you use pleasure as an incentive to appeal to the rational human, drawing out the irrationality within the human, in order to continue the human race, we are drawing out the Hedonist, Irrational, and inherently sexual nature of the human. This is underlying in all humans who have the slightest tinge of a hormonal imbalance within the biological body.
Hedonism is irrational. Thought is. Hence by logical conclusion, humans are animalistic, if we are inherently Hedonistic, we are irrational by the very nature of being human.
Who is society to deny us our very natures? It may not be our constitutional rights to rape any one off the streets, but condemning Hedonistic lifestyles is simply looking at appearances, being completely materialistic and looking behind the Hedonism, if there were anything behind it.
They often depict a "Hedonistic" future, I beg to differ. I believe that, we have been living a "Hedonistic" past, and although there has been a moral "gag" on the acts of Hedonism, it still very exists in past societies, we are living in a "Hedonistic" present; albeit severely looked down upon and labelled unconstitutional, inhumane and immoral subcultures. One day we will live one future that the word will not be Hedonism, but the status quo.
What if Hedonism was acknowledged and institutionalized first?