Do Eunchs have Courage

[paring (imported)]

Needless to look way back. We've all witnessed what a bunch of eunuchs can do maintain this site on line. That takes courage. LOL

Thanks to all of them!

[janekane (imported)]

What can I write here that is not better not written?

I hold the (false?) view that courage and integrity are closely allied. Their alternatives are discourage and disintegrity (as in discouragement and disintegration)?

What causes personal disintegration, and thereby discouragement?

My seemingly best hunch thus far is: Trauma, in the form of situational life events which contain intensely inescapable double-bind conflicts are my prime candidate for the root cause of structural personality disintegration. Trauma is a fancy name for physical brain damage. Perhaps some of the folks who can get to the 2011 MoM will have enough courage to talk with me about the relationship I have observed between courage (personality integrity) and voluntary castration as a life-preserving choice.

As for towers and idiots, such as myself, who climb them... I do not climb towers to demonstrate my courage. I climb towers when something on a tower is in need of fixing. The very last place I can imagine to use courage is in climbing towers.

I have done work with radio stations in my past. On one occasion, a connection failed on an FM broadcast transmitter, the connection was about a thousand feet above the ground, and no one else was readily available who was properly qualified and licensed to do a temporary repair of the connection.

People on the ground subtend a very small arc on the retina of a person who is a thousand feet above the ground. I have known folks who do tower work using a safety belt. I have nothing close to enough courage to do that. So, when my work takes me up a tower, work for which I am well qualified, I use a full body harness with double climbing lanyards equipped with proper attachment hardware. I have studied how people who climb towers have "messed up." I assiduously avoid every form of such "messing up" of which I have heard or have been able to imagine. Fantasy can be a wonderful resource when real "clear and present danger" (apologies to Oliver Wendell Holmes) is at hand.

Foolhardiness can appear outwardly to mimic courage. When that happens, tragedy is likely lurking in the nearby shadows. More than one person who got dangerously comfortable climbing towers was just fine, doing free fall resulting from neglecting danger, until the last thousandth of an inch from the ground. From sufficient height, people may splash. Splash = disintegration.

So, instead of using courage in climbing towers, I use exquisite caution and diligence of attention to detail.

I began "working at height" while in high school, as an aspect of the business I had started while in grade school. I have been doing antenna and tower work for nearly 60 years, without a single harmful incident. Integrity of personality may allow diligence of attention to detail to vastly outperform courage as a strategy for doing useful work which, absent such diligence, is effectively of death wishing.

My brother, one might surmise, took the path commonly taken, one of much more conformity to societal conventions than the path I have taken. His path spared him from all the difficulties his staying alive past age 50 would have brought into his life. Alas, more than his path made his life after age 50 easy for him, it made the life of his family far more difficult in many ways.

In contrast with my brother, my (successful so far) effort to remain alive has made my life (I am only guessing) far more difficult since I was 50 than my brother's life has been since he was 50. Is it a matter of courage to face a such a choice, and choose harder for self because that seems likely to be easier for family?

My brother did not have the "background" (education?) to clearly understand that choice; I did. Was my choice (orchiectomy and colectomy and such) wise or foolish, life-enhancing or life-denigrating? How on earth should I know that?

I suppose I might be foolishly courageous and courageously foolish. Or not.

Nonetheless, I find that kindness, decency, genuine respect, and truthfulness appear to consistently outperform their alternatives.

Events happen. Choices happen. Decisions happen. Life happens.

[feedback (imported)]

I think it takes courage to go again the norms of society. Much more so than to go with the flow. It takes courage to have ones nuts removed or to inject them till they no longer function. I think taking a gentler less aggressive approach to life when all around we are told to stick up for our right, fight for whats ours etc etc is not always easy to do. I am retired and I like life without T. I let a lot of things slide that I wound't have in the past but don't push to far or I will push back. It takes more courage to turn the other cheek and walk away than to stand and fight.

[Patrickchemcast (imported)]

Are you a ham ?

[castray ted (imported)]

Altho the thread seems to only generally relate to the title, allow me to relate that I went totally sans-testosterone for a couple of years - and a couple of times for shorter periods.

There was usually a period of time where I would have hot-flashes but those lessened after several weeks. Sometimes less.

I still experienced erections every couple of weeks and still had sex although not on as regular a basis. It just depended what the other person did that turned me on (or off).

The orgasms were mostly dry after a certain period of time - and ejaculation became pretty unimportant - but Hey, nerve endings are nerve endings so almost everything still felt good.

As far as keeping it up well, some times were better than others. So far as being capable of getting it up often enough to satisfy a relationship requirement, that was spotty too.

Work has been work - some chicks bust their behind and outwork men anyway so, that would probably be something specific to the individual (as stated above) or to the task at hand.

I've been back on the T for several months again now - would really rather try E for a year or so just to see if what I think I'd like about it would be true - but I function just fine - not like the old days but I'm also not so young any more.

It takes courage to be different - and this route is definitely different. I'd have to run it by a trusted Shrink before I qualified just what type of courage it is ... I mean, after all, it takes courage to be a boxer and go into the ring to get hit ... hard ... about the face, head and body - and it's on pupose ... but that's freaking insane ... isn't it??

[noxmagnus (imported)]

I think the ultimate question is, what is courage, and who really has it? I think no matter who you are or your gender courage is something you have to force upon yourself.