1. It finally strikes me that it’s pointless to have children or to get married. All the women in my social class earn more than me, or have been so hopelessly damaged by abortion & multiple relationships (usually both) that it’s a useless enterprise.
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“Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.” ― James Joyce
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1. I think that Joyce is wrong here. Living without a woman—as per Nietzsche and Jesus—is the hardest thing to do. Most men, even Socrates, fall back into the easy option of being with a woman. They’re glad to be complaisant husband; it’s a relief to be bossed around.
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2. Women save men from the responsibility of themselves by binding them into being “dad” and providing for the babies. It takes a man of courage to set a course free of women. This quote only makes me have a lower opinion of Joyce than I already had.
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Joyce was married and had two children. He makes no claim that perpetual bachelorhood is harder or more valuable than cohabitation, but was merely pointing out a blindspot
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Isn’t this an attack on Jesus? The implication is that the “son of God” couldn’t do this very difficult thing, and so is not impressive. It strikes me as the kind of superficially clever claim that the small-minded village atheist makes.
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Yes. Any man can have much of his worldviews altered by cohabitation. It's not about competence or skill, it's about trust. It's easier to put faith in a man who understands as many of your struggles as possible
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But the man who stands outside might be objective...
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The man who can stand inside and out is "more" "objective"
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