Not exactly EA, but part of a scientific worldview: I had the end of the last paragraph of Origin read at my wedding.
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
In fact, it’s pretty un-EA to say that “higher” animals are “the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving,” haha.
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There’s a lot of Zen stuff about using your intimate relationships as a supportive place to learn altruism which can then be applied to wider and wider circles. That seems pretty appropriate for a wedding. I don’t have any links off the top of my head because I usually hear this kind of thing at dharma talks, but it’s usually along the lines of someone asking a Zen master how to be a better person and getting the answer, “Every day when you wake up, think ‘only for my wife, only for my wife.’ When your wife’s welfare is like your own, think ‘only for my family’” and so on through the neighborhood, the community, the city, the country, the world. The localist hierarchy isn’t EA, but the idea that you have to level up your compassion with the support and commitment of those you are close to brings EA themes together with marriage.
Not exactly EA, but part of a scientific worldview: I had the end of the last paragraph of Origin read at my wedding.
In fact, it’s pretty un-EA to say that “higher” animals are “the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving,” haha.
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There’s a lot of Zen stuff about using your intimate relationships as a supportive place to learn altruism which can then be applied to wider and wider circles. That seems pretty appropriate for a wedding. I don’t have any links off the top of my head because I usually hear this kind of thing at dharma talks, but it’s usually along the lines of someone asking a Zen master how to be a better person and getting the answer, “Every day when you wake up, think ‘only for my wife, only for my wife.’ When your wife’s welfare is like your own, think ‘only for my family’” and so on through the neighborhood, the community, the city, the country, the world. The localist hierarchy isn’t EA, but the idea that you have to level up your compassion with the support and commitment of those you are close to brings EA themes together with marriage.