“If someone is still trying to work through the difficult parts of their trauma then they shouldn’t be playing grownup games with grownup people in a grownup forum. To be very clear: it’s your responsibility to make sure you can handle your own shit before you step out your front door and engage with the world. It is not the world’s responsibility to bend over backwards to make people comfortable when they haven’t spent the requisite time coming to terms with their own lives.”
~”Austerus,” FetLifer (posted with permission)
“I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
~Professor Bernardo de la Paz, Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by R.A.Heinlein
“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
~Jonathan Swift
Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?
– Arthur C. Clarke
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
~Marianne Williamson
“. . . I can have any kind of relationship I want. I can make any choices I want to. My best course of action is to learn to choose people who want something similar to what I want, to take responsibility for the consequences of my choices, and to pay attention to the effects my choices have on the people around me.”
~Franklin Veaux
“I believe in morality, which is doing what is right regardless of what I am told, as opposed to religion, which is doing what I am told regardless of what is right.”
~unknown