Why would you spend the time to post this unless my "nagging" was bothering you, in which case your conscience must be bothering you?
I notice you didn't answer the question.
What question?
Anyone who's been in a relationship knows that there's no such thing as "meaningless trysts."
Your opinion is just that.
I thought you might try this way out.
The trouble is, when you say that your sexual encounters are meaningless, you're saying that your most serious actions (possible generation of new life/possible contraction of serious disease) are meaningless, in which case either you regard yourself as meaningless or life as meaningless; in which case you must be profoundly unhappy.
There is a way out of this. You can repent and serve the Truth.
This is where your argument falls apart, as always. Through the miracles of modern contraception and medicine, the idea that sex is automatically tied to life and or disease is an outdated concept. Sex can simply be for pleasure.
There is a way out of this. You can repent and serve the Truth.
I've already discovered Mithras, thank you very much. I don't need some Johnnie-come-lately from a backwater of the Roman Empire.
Why would you spend the time to post this unless my "nagging" was bothering you, in which case your conscience must be bothering you?
Your reply is not responsive to my comment. I didn't say that nags aren't bothersome, simply that they are not helpful or effective. As far as my conscience is concerned, you haven't a clue, and your use of the word "must" reflects a weakness in your rhetoric.
I notice you didn't answer the question.
What question?
A question was posed. I'm not surprised that one with certitude of the perfection of one's position would dismiss it out of hand. Proselytizers have little interest in debate.
Your opinion is just that.
I thought you might try this way out.
The trouble is, when you say that your sexual encounters are meaningless, you're saying that your most serious actions (possible generation of new life/possible contraction of serious disease) are meaningless, in which case either you regard yourself as meaningless or life as meaningless; in which case you must be profoundly unhappy.
I quoted the term "meaningless tryst," I didn't coin it. I understood the meaning of the phrase to be a sexual encounter of which the author of the quote disapproved. I never said I would consider the encounter meaningless. Given that, the remainder of your demeaning inferences about the meaningfulness of my activities or degree of my happiness fail as they are based on false premise.
There is a way out of this. You can repent and serve the Truth.
Your opinion is just that.