El Conquistador
Ruler of Zamunda
No tombstone. I have in my will to be cremated, toss my ashes in a water hazard at my local golf course, then throw a huge kegger at the clubhouse.You should put that on your tombstone.
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No tombstone. I have in my will to be cremated, toss my ashes in a water hazard at my local golf course, then throw a huge kegger at the clubhouse.You should put that on your tombstone.
That sounds somewhat offensive, particularly given pork's status as non-Halal and Dr. Seuss's well-documented bigotry.You might as well say, "From Green Eggs and Ham."
That's great and how I use to think, until virtual universes got thought up. It seems to me almost certain that we are deep inside a bunch of them.I was dead for billions of years before I was born and I wasn't inconvenienced in the slightest.
I live my life to its fullest because I don't think we get another chance.
Is that irony?
Most if not all the words put in Jesus mouth by the Gospel writers were Neoplatonic maxims with wide circulation at the time.Nope. It existed pre-Bible.
The Confucian version I have heard is my personal favourite.
Seems less open to stupid misinterpretations.
Most if not all the words put in Jesus mouth by the Gospel writers were Neoplatonic maxims with wide circulation at the time.
Speaking of Tombstone, anybody seen that movie?
That was Hammurabi, I think, but Jesus may have said it best.yeah....saw it in a documentary....
the rule was written in stone a thousand years before the Carpenter walked.
Dr. Seuss's was a bigot. Please enlighten me.That sounds somewhat offensive, particularly given pork's status as non-Halal and Dr. Seuss's well-documented bigotry.
Catered in stereotypes, especially those hateful to Asians.Dr. Seuss's was a bigot. Please enlighten me.
toss my ashes in a water hazard at my local golf course
We want to do what is right because it is right, not because it will gain us a reward, such as others treating us better. To some extent this does happen but in the real world there are those who take and never give.I see the Golden Rule as axiomatic. I believe how you treat others is how you will be treated. Or I see 'judge not, lest ye be judged' as how reality is set up. Where it gets tricky (to understand, explain) is in the finer nuances of how I (or we) think I am treating others. There's too many examples of that for me to name, but it is could be simplified along lines of, "I bought you a cup of coffee, you could treat me to lunch." And if that doesn't happen, then thinking the Golden Rule isn't at work, that some exception has been found. I don't see it that way (well perhaps sometimes I do). I think the "how we are treating others" isn't concerned with specifics, but more like perspective. Plus, it just seems obvious to me that the Rule is really about you, not others. To me, the Rule could also be explained as, "how you treat others is how you treat your self." Again, 'the others' aspect is incidental. It is how you are doing this, not how the others feel they are being treated.
When not viewing the Rule in the above fashion, then I do think of it as a guideline, and not a hard, fast rule.
I would defend him; his stories always have a couple morals in them, one the silliness of the boundaries we draw and the second to have an open mind about what might be out there in the bigger world.Catered in stereotypes, especially those hateful to Asians.
We want to do what is right because it is right, not because it will gain us a reward, such as others treating us better. To some extent this does happen but in the real world there are those who take and never give.
This brings to mind the concept of karma, not a magical cloud of good and bad energy we accumulate but the fact that to a large extent evil people end up in places like jail or worse and good people do get treated better. It is not guaranteed, as I just said, but it does happen. More important, when we do what is right it changes us for the better and vice-versa. The more evil we do, the easier evil becomes, the more good we do the more natural it becomes. In short, we make what we are by what we do.
One of my favourite Dr Seuss books is Green Eggs and Ham. Are there stereotypes in this children's classic that are hateful?Catered in stereotypes, especially those hateful to Asians.
“do unto others as you would have them do unto you”Is that irony?