“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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Replying to @tomxhart
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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Replying to @jbthazard @tomxhart
I'd rather not pay attention to the relationship between validity and sassiness. Sometimes 'Truth' is an asshole.
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I don’t understand what you’re getting at here or where “sassiness” comes into it (it’s an American thing, I think. English people aren’t “sassy”—certainly not women). My experience is that telling the truth always involves being an arsehole, which is why people think I am one.
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Well, that's what I'm saying. By "sassiness" all I meant was being a smartass, the kind of small minded, secularized, atheistic rationality that engenders your typical rebellious teenager. That's not to say that ideological neoteny has no uses, however.
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Okay, I see. My observation about Joyce was frivolous sneering—even the village atheist can be right. I was guilty of “attitudism” or name calling insofar as I was dismissing him for being “that kind of person”.
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