Soul is the operative word. I asked my son why what Bruce Jenner had done was wrong. He correctly said, "He was looking for happiness in his body, instead of in his soul".
I said, "Correct, son!"
We're not religious at all, by the way,. He's never read the Bible. But we've read Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," Plato's "Republic," "Considerations on Representative Government" by John Stuart Mill, Darwin's "Origin of Species," "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, etc.
My son understands, after reading philosophy, that any belief-system that tries to trick you into materialistically thinking that your body will bring happiness is a con. It's why marketing boob jobs to women is a scam, or telling transsexuals that they can buy their identity from a cosmetic surgeon is cruel. Once these people wake up to this hokum, it;s too late and they seek the cold comfort of suicide. Although to be fair, their abolition of their initial gender was ALREADY a step toward suicide: the erasure of their identity.
People need to be taught to seek peace in their soul, not at the end of the surgeon's blade. There are no over-the-counter identities.
I agree. These mentally ill lost souls lie to the world and themselves.
Soul is the operative word. I asked my son why what Bruce Jenner had done was wrong. He correctly said, "He was looking for happiness in his body, instead of in his soul".
I said, "Correct, son!"
We're not religious at all, by the way,. He's never read the Bible. But we've read Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," Plato's "Republic," "Considerations on Representative Government" by John Stuart Mill, Darwin's "Origin of Species," "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, etc.
My son understands, after reading philosophy, that any belief-system that tries to trick you into materialistically thinking that your body will bring happiness is a con. It's why marketing boob jobs to women is a scam, or telling transsexuals that they can buy their identity from a cosmetic surgeon is cruel. Once these people wake up to this hokum, it;s too late and they seek the cold comfort of suicide. Although to be fair, their abolition of their initial gender was ALREADY a step toward suicide: the erasure of their identity.
People need to be taught to seek peace in their soul, not at the end of the surgeon's blade. There are no over-the-counter identities.
Why is this not it’s own post