>>9997713>>9997728>>9997756>>9997791>>9998227>>9998253>>9998281>>9998374>>9998557>>9999300>>10001687The first stage of a man is the child. This is where the wondrous wanderlust and passion for life is imprinted upon his heart. The man is a visionary.
The second stage of a man is an adolescent. This is the stage of a man when he first begins to taste adversity, yet tastes wonder still, and where the connection between the conquering of adversity to attain wondrous things is established. The man is a rebel.
The third stage of a man is the most perilous. It is the death of wonder. Santa Clause and bis first crush are long, long gone of course. At this point, the real wonder starts peeling away- a sense of concrete attachment to and belief in the moral virtues that defined his world view. Under the weight of an uncaring universe, the man fumbles as the rug is pulled out from underneath him, qnd he finds himself feeling ill will towards his own guiding virtues. The man is a cynic.
At this point, most men stop. They stay the cynic. They do not have the strength to exert enough external moral pressure against the weight of an immoral universe, and so they collapse in upon themselves. Perhaps they blame themselves, qnd punish themselves for the failure of the universe to be as it should be. Perhaps they blame others. Perhaps they lie to themselves in this way or that. Perhaps they seek self-destruction, hedonism, or seek to inflict more misery so as to feel less alone with their pain. They fail to advance to the fourth and final stage.
Because when a man begins to understand the mankind, in it's glory, is divine by virtue of declaring itself as such arbitrarily. is owed everything it should so desire, merely because we demand as such arbitrarily, and that it is the great original sin of reality itself to not accommodate the whims and needs of Man, that we understand that since reality does not kneel to us, we shall make it kneel by force. That there is a light of salvation in a knowingly arbitrarily decided upon objective morality, and that it shall provide for the end of want forevermore in the hearts of mankind. And that those who will not walk into the light of salvation willingly, must be dragged into it, kicking and screaming. It is one role to defy nature. Destroy it. Usurp it. It does not deserve us, and so we shall unmake and remake it. This man is a zealot.
Be the zealot. Deny evil and suffering and want it's right to exist, even if you must pull
