threestares

Reciprocity is indeed my favourite position. Especially with the delicious collisions available to us as male and female interlocking systems.

The beauty of reciprocity is that it satisfies the laws of conservation of energy, mass and most importantly, pleasure - yet doesn't need to be fettered by any kind of chronological imperative. For instance, I could tongue you to the heights of ecstacy one night in a walk-in closet at a party (with none of our fellow guests any the wiser) and a month later your could ride me into blind oblivion in the privacy of a room at the Sheraton and satisfy the laws of reciprocity.

For instance.

i think rhyming like that could be a gift.

If it is then I'd like to give it back
Might come in handy though, if I ever have to write a jingle.
Might need some cheesy keyboard skills for that though.

I'll post a bit more in a couple days but I'm so slammed with work right now that it's a very low priority.

I'd be totally into writing a story with you. Your journal or mine or both? Or maybe we should start a group so it doesn't get lost in the byzantine chaos of journal posts...

Dammit girl, where were you when I started writing that story? I desperately wanted to have people contribute but now I've already written well past what I've posted and am actually aiming for publishing down the road (shhhh!) So unfortunately I can't work in anyones contributions anymore. I should take that out of the first journal...

Nice work though - it actually fits quite nicely with the story I've written through.

Sooo.... you're coming to BC in June? (I read Hexe's journal).. Don't you dare come here and not look me up for some team bender action.

What if: before, after and beyond our short mortal and material lives we are all together and an integral part of the enormity that is the universe. A divine energy that is both infinitely populous and singular. When we take our turns living, a collection of threads of said essence are concentrated together to form a singular consiousness that becomes the basis for our unique perspective during the time we inhabit the mortal coil. Assuming the divine essence is in fact the one and same that created the universe, a mortal life merely provides a way to experience the magic of the grand experiment from a unique but consistent perspective across the span of the life lived.

With that little fairy tale in mind, I'd say that relationships are merely a reminder of our true nature a yearning to be one with the whole once more combined with the magic of human interface. It really is magic - look at the equipment we get to play with! Feel the insistent enormity of the social, chemical and instinctual imperitives we have imposed on us. Relish the emotional highs and lows attendant upon this perspective while we have it.

Just my 2 cents...

I think that there are moral guidelines that can be beneficial but must not be oversimplified and blindly followed. That's the problem with most of the "moral imperatives" bandied about by so many people today. Quotes and adages taken from 100's of years of hearsay and shoehorned into today's context whether they fit or not.

Very simply, we should always act with awareness and understanding of the consequences. I think our laws, social constructs and teachings must be concieved and applied with a view to the net effect on the human condition. The key is to understand the far reaching resonance of every course we take and attempt to factor in the extent and complexity of all consequences. This is why, for me, the highest moral imperative is preservation of our planet and conservation of our resources. All other questions have time to be answered but our resources, the environment, the ever dwindling numbers of species we've yet to even study let alone understand - these are finite. They are not renewable. Human problems have existed for millenia and not changed all that much. We still fear, hate, over-consume and make war on eachother despite history's lessons. There is no shortage of humans.

So that's my moral imperative, make sure the ship isn't sinking first, then worry about the squabbles amongst the crew.

All the other moral questions are endlessly debatable and become moot if we face extinction.

Mmmmm... you said "hard and fast"

I completely forgot to pass on one of my very favourites:

Perviosity

Reciprocity. My favourite position.

Woah... speaking of Descartes...

Well, I'd say it's because there are a bevvy of huge assumptions that everyone has to make in order to funct... er... or maybe your question was just rhetorical?

I'm glad you like Descartes. A lot of people dismiss him outright with, "skepticism - been there, done that," but I really think he had a lot more going for him.

Don't push me too hard on what, though. It's been a long time since HUM 210.

Period of Blackness...I like that...