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Endurance quotes3/7/2023 Where there are -patterns, we learn them from other queers, not from our-parents or schools or the state. There are almost as many kinds of relationship as there are people in combination. Because gay social life is not as ritualized and institutionalized as straight life, each relation is an adventure in nearly un-charted territory-whether it is between two gay men, or two lesbians, or a gay man and a lesbian, or among three or more queers, or between gay men and the straight women whose commitment to queer culture brings them the punishment of the "fag hag" label. Friendships, in turn, can cross into sexual relations and back. And in the way many gay men and lesbians live, quite casual sexual relations can develop into powerful and enduring friendships. The most fleeting sexual encounter is, in its way intimate. People who think that queer life consists of sex without intimacy are usually seeing only a tiny part of the picture, and seeing it through homophobic stereotype. ![]() The team effort-the perfectly synchronized flow of muscle, oars, boat, and water the single, whole, unified, and beautiful symphony that a crew in motion becomes-is all that matters. Great crews may have men or women of exceptional talent or strength they may have outstanding coxswains or stroke oars or bowmen but they have no stars. And yet, at the same time-and this is key-no other sport demands and rewards the complete abandonment of the self the way that rowing does. The sport offers so many opportunities for suffering and so few opportunities for glory that only the most tenaciously self-reliant and self-motivated are likely to succeed at it. Nobody who does not believe deeply in himself or herself-in his or her ability to endure hardship and to prevail over adversity-is likely even to attempt something as audacious as competitive rowing at the highest levels. They must be almost immune to frustration. On the one hand, they must possess enormous self-confidence, strong egos, and titanic willpower. Great oarsmen and oarswomen are necessarily made of conflicting stuff-of oil and water, fire and earth. Uncreated and indestructible, it endures under the compulsion of its own nature.īut the greatest paradox of the sport has to do with the psychological makeup of the people who pull the oars. Know that the world is uncreated, as time itself is, without beginning or end, and is based on the principles, life and rest. If you say that he slays only to destroy evil beings, why did he create such beings in the first place? Good men should combat the believer in divine creation, maddened by an evil doctrine. Thus the doctrine that the world was created by God makes no sense at all, And God commits great sin in slaying the children whom he himself created. If out of love for living beings and need of them he made the world, why did he not take creation wholly blissful free from misfortune? If he were transcendent he would not create, for he would be free: Nor if involved in transmigration, for then he would not be almighty. If he created because of the karma of embodied beings He is not the Almighty Lord, but subordinate to something else. ![]() If he created in some kind of sport, it was the sport of a foolish child, leading to trouble. ![]() If he is perfect, he does not strive for the three aims of man, so what advantage would he gain by creating the universe? If you say that he created to no purpose because it was his nature to do so, then God is pointless. If he is form-less, action-less and all-embracing, how could he have created the world? Such a soul, devoid of all morality, would have no desire to create anything. If God created the world by an act of his own will, without any raw material, then it is just his will and nothing else - and who will believe this silly nonsense? If he is ever perfect and complete, how could the will to create have arisen in him? If, on the other hand, he is not perfect, he could no more create the universe than a potter could. If you declare that this raw material arose naturally you fall into another fallacy, For the whole universe might thus have been its own creator, and have arisen quite naturally. If God created the world, where was he before the creation? If you say he was transcendent then and needed no support, where is he now? How could God have made this world without any raw material? If you say that he made this first, and then the world, you are faced with an endless regression. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be rejected. Some foolish men declare that creator made the world.
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