cat – Kinksters' Quotes

Own your own issues

cat — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:03:28 +0000

“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)

Freedom is owning ones self, decisions, and actions

cat — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:12:10 +0000

“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 [...]

The major failing of religion

cat — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:19:05 +0000

“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
~Jonathan Swift

Religion and the evil thereof

cat — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:16:46 +0000

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

Fear

cat — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:05:03 +0000

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
~Marianne Williamson

Relationships, choices, and taking ownership of same

cat — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:01:41 +0000

“. . . 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 [...]

Right vs Wrong

cat — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:55:15 +0000

“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