Wednesday, April 27, 2011

[Mind's Eye] Re: Guys? We need to talk.

OK I'm changing my vote... I vote for Lee and keep the virgins.

On Apr 27, 7:14 am, "leerevdoug...@googlemail.com" <l...@rdfmedia.com>
wrote:
> A little bit of a hijack here but nevermind.
>
> If a man is happy with his life and with all aspects of his self, then
> he sees no fault in himself.  How would he then react to being
> 'helped' by those who see fault in him?
>
> If you are largly locked into viewing the world as you view it then
> what you are talking about is subjective morality.
>
> You see a fault in another human, and proclaim it as such due to your
> moral stance.  There is no objectivity in this, if you are striving
> for an objective faultless life, then sorry my freind you will not
> find it.
>
> Let us take an example.  Let it be personal to me.
>
> I abhour bigotry, of any kind, be that bias on grounds of gender, skin
> colour, age, sexuality, intelect or what have you.
>
> So according to my morality a racist is a piece of shit, and personaly
> I'll have nowt to do with any of them.  However would I say that a
> racist is a faulted person?  Nope, they have ultimate freedom over
> their own life, and their own desicions, I don't like it, I wont like
> them, but I see no fault.
>
> Bottom line is a liberal application of the 'Golden Rule'.  I like it
> that I get to life my own life as I will, I must therefore apply
> exactly the same standard to each and every other human, or face being
> a hypocrit.  The human condition is a strange one, now if you belive
> in a creative diety then you must belive that you are exaclty how God
> intend you to be, hence no fault.  If you do not belive in such then
> you must belive that you have evolved into who you are and as such
> there is no objective standard by which to measure you agianst others.
>
> In short then a flawed human is flawed only on measures of subjective
> morality.  I contend that there exists no such thing as objective
> morality.
>
> On Apr 27, 5:55 am, the taoist shaman <bryan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > i may be new and young , but it seems to me that if u see falt in
> > anonther u should try to help that person see themselves more
> > clearly , or that person is aware and happy w/ who they are , and
> > therefore the fault lies in u for judgment and lack of acceptance , if
> > there is a solid sound minded simple non conveluted re butt el in
> > argument of this statment i would be very intrested to hear it
>
> > Ash wrote:
> > > Sorry, that would require more than three, if I had to cast a vote please
> > > add mine as the best pick by and/or between the moderators. By the way, who
> > > are the moderators? O.o- Hide quoted text -
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