From: Nicq MacDonald (namacdonald@stthomas.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 20:20:51 MST
> Love is not limited to reproduction.
>
> Love's only purpose is to serve itself.
Love = The desire for higher organization and higher complexity
Love, whether it is directed towards another person, towards an art form,
towards a study, towards one's self, or towards the universe, is what drives
entities to create- in essence, love is a very extropian principle. Even if
marriage is a dying institution, love isn't leaving- love will continue to
drive humanity and the cosmos onward to it's final destination, wherever
that may be.
> Now we're entering the domain of poets.....
And what a sweet domain it is.
-Nicq MacDonald
"We do progress, but how? Not by the tinkering of the meliorist; not by the
crushing of initiative; not by laws and regulations which hamstring the
racehorse, and handcuff the boxer; but by the innovations of the eccentric,
by the phantasies of the hashish-dreamer of philosophy, by the aspirations
of the idealist to the impossible, by the imagination of the revolutionary,
by the perilous adventure of the pioneer. Progress is by leaps and bounds,
by breaking from custom, by working on untried experiments; in short, by the
follies and crimes of men of genius, only recognizable as wisdom and virtue
after they have been tortured to death, and their murderers reap gloatingly
the harvest of the seeds they sowed at midnight." -Aleister Crowley, "On
Original Sin"
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