"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Marie Rilke
“A person remains wise as long as he searches for wisdom. As soon as he thinks he has found it, he becomes a fool.” Talmud
“How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-actualization.” Erich Hoffer
"What humans must be, they can be. This drive I call self-actualization." Jack as Every Man
I am a long time AA non-member--not Alcoholics Anonymous but Atheist Autarchist (etymologies: "no god", "self-ruler" ). I hold all gods as projections of insecurity and governments as unnecessary evils. Don't fight them, just de-legitimize and abandon them; and then create Responsibly Free alternatives to them. Btw, the most destructive God that so many so called atheists unknowingly believe in, is the God of Government. Think about this and join me as a true, complete, Atheist.
I value and practice these 4 virtuous life principles:
No initiated physical force to get what you want and no allowing others to use such with your sanction.
Private property.
Free trade.
Contractual obligation
That's all folks is necessary for society to be ordered!
MB TYPE: INTJ; reason, science, art; anarchist; atheist; poet; philosopher; 3 citizenships; Love to Learn and Learn to Love; 4 wives (2 died in my arms from cancer, I divorced 2); 2 children (adopted); many Lives, many Deaths, many Loves, many Me's. I enjoy thinking and discussing ideas. It is important to make and maintain enduring friendships with intelligent, emotionally mature persons of all ages, male or female. I like being useful to others by which I mean providing sensitive support for the individual's unique growth. I am responsible for my freedom which is total.
INTELLECTUALLY: Above average IQ. Skeptic, anarchist, atheist, humanist, as Hans Selyes coined: egotistic altruist, rational thinker, valuer of objective truth via the scientific method. I am avowedly against postmodern sophism, left and right wing collectivism, and misanthropic Greenies, so rampant in Western academia/media where too often learned ignorance leads to earned helplessness.
LIFESTYLE: I have been constantly reading in ideas and writing prose and poetry since my early 20s for my own self-motivated ends and practice at the art of learning and loving. I value the creation of responsible character oriented beyond convention to beauty, elegance, and passion without stuffy formalities, conspicuous consumer-driven show of wealth/status, or infantile bohemianism.
JACK AS EVERY MAN, and hopefully yours too!
I WOULD LIKE YOU TO BE:
A female in terms of our sexual exchange as I am exclusively heterosexual.
A practicing or potential anarcho-libertarian who accepts the foundational moral principle of the absolute prohibition of initiating physical force, which means you believe in total Responsible Freedom. If these ideas are foreign to you, I’m willing to discuss them with you to clarify matters so you can decide if your values align with mine.
Able to live and support yourself financially most anywhere in the world including Auckland, New Zealand where I now live.
Adventurous with a five year old’s curiosity and a mature mind’s competency to deal whatever Reality presents while remaining Responsibly Free. Retirement will be an unknown word to you and work is play and living is an art you have learned to do with some grace, wit and elegance.
Have faced, or are learning to face, the three primal Fears of Death, Abandonment and Engulfment and realize there are no “Saviors, Gurus, Methods” and that your only final authority is Reason and Science and your own Mind that has accepted its Body and the Body's death. You will operate on the knowledge that because Death is necessary, Life is sufficient.
Able to laugh at yourself and acknowledge with Shakespeare that a wise man knows he is fool while a fool thinks he is a wise man.
Beautiful in and out with above average IQ and EQ, you’ve cared for your physical appearance and are self-confident about who you are. Slim (or not fat), youthful good looks, emanating a fresh, serene, love of life attitude with unpretentious elegance and class. Hopefully comfortable with Yin-Yang differences and understand and agree with a libertarian lifestyle (meaning you value individual freedom over collective coercion). Love discussing ideas, are adventurous and willing to go anywhere to find the one who proves himself your equal.
Agree with Ayn Rand: "Love is a response to values. It is with a person's sense of life that you fall in love--the embodiment of the values that formed that person's character.”
IMPORTANT! Your English must be fairly good. I know only a few words of any language other than English so this is what we must use to get to know each other.