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Clearly it's not enough to be a nice person simply for the sake of wishing others to treat you as you do them - I suppose some people need the fear of a (fictional, in my mid at least) higher power sending them to a horrible nasty place at the end of their life instead of the lovely cloud in the sky they get promised for being a good boy an following his rules. And by the way, why is hell down? Is therefore using the London underground inherently sinful?
I find the advantages of being a nice person fine as they are. And no, this does not mean I believe in this Karma nonsense or any religion. I believe in science, nothing more or less. But if the image of a big fella looking down on you slapping you into hell for putting a foot wrong makes you a nicer person, you go for your life. I just don't need the threat over my head to be a nice person to people I meet.
A million appologies if this offends you, but it's my views and I'm pretty sure free speech is still in place, as long as you don't incite racial hatred.
Love and kisses, Scooby xx
I pretty much finished writing what I was gonna post and then I saw BigKris's contribution and I backed off putting it up.
I might still put it up but it is the nature of subject matters like this, that seem to generate longer and longer posts.
The reason for this is quite simple; some people end up talking bollocks, I don't mean that to be disrespectful to anybody in any way but if this thread was truly a matter of homing in on the truth of the matter thru a process of reasoned deliberation and response, then this thread would have been done and dusted before now.
But the reason this linear approach isn't adopted is because some people have agendas, whether they admit to it or not, they wreak of it, and so we are led by the nose down a thread going absolutely nowhere.
Long posts are symptomatic of the truth getting away from people as they struggle to clarify whatever they wrote and at the same time, attempt to answer whatever rebuttal confronted them, and in doing this, it provokes a similar lengthy response from somebody else .... And so the truth slips away under the flailing arms and legs of what's supposed to be an 'intellectual' debate.
I think I'll stay out of this in case I have to write a long post
I might still put it up but it is the nature of subject matters like this, that seem to generate longer and longer posts.
The reason for this is quite simple; some people end up talking bollocks, I don't mean that to be disrespectful to anybody in any way but if this thread was truly a matter of homing in on the truth of the matter thru a process of reasoned deliberation and response, then this thread would have been done and dusted before now.
But the reason this linear approach isn't adopted is because some people have agendas, whether they admit to it or not, they wreak of it, and so we are led by the nose down a thread going absolutely nowhere.
Long posts are symptomatic of the truth getting away from people as they struggle to clarify whatever they wrote and at the same time, attempt to answer whatever rebuttal confronted them, and in doing this, it provokes a similar lengthy response from somebody else .... And so the truth slips away under the flailing arms and legs of what's supposed to be an 'intellectual' debate.
I think I'll stay out of this in case I have to write a long post
Bang it up mate,long posts are often symptomatic of being long posts.I pretty much finished writing what I was gonna post and then I saw BigKris's contribution and I backed off putting it up.
I might still put it up but it is the nature of subject matters like this, that seem to generate longer and longer posts.
The reason for this is quite simple; some people end up talking bollocks, I don't mean that to be disrespectful to anybody in any way but if this thread was truly a matter of homing in on the truth of the matter thru a process of reasoned deliberation and response, then this thread would have been done and dusted before now.
But the reason this linear approach isn't adopted is because some people have agendas, whether they admit to it or not, they wreak of it, and so we are led by the nose down a thread going absolutely nowhere.
Long posts are symptomatic of the truth getting away from people as they struggle to clarify whatever they wrote and at the same time, attempt to answer whatever rebuttal confronted them, and in doing this, it provokes a similar lengthy response from somebody else .... And so the truth slips away under the flailing arms and legs of what's supposed to be an 'intellectual' debate.
I think I'll stay out of this in case I have to write a long post
Chucking another one up means there is another one.
I tell ya what Kris, thanks for the offer but no thanks mate.
All I would end up doing is enter myself into a debate going nowhere with agenda-clad individuals.
I have strong views borne out of my experience in life and considered reflection and not borne out of some social science degree course or some pretentious, upper-middle class idealist.
I won't deny the truth, I will look for it and embrace it and if it offends some people, then fcuk 'em, I don't care, they are fools if they wanna believe some distortion created to appease whatever agenda they happen to embrace to make themselves feel better.
All I would end up doing is enter myself into a debate going nowhere with agenda-clad individuals.
I have strong views borne out of my experience in life and considered reflection and not borne out of some social science degree course or some pretentious, upper-middle class idealist.
I won't deny the truth, I will look for it and embrace it and if it offends some people, then fcuk 'em, I don't care, they are fools if they wanna believe some distortion created to appease whatever agenda they happen to embrace to make themselves feel better.