Thunder and lighting outside my office window. Cool.
Angelus ,'Damage'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Congrats, Jesse! I hope the response is the beginning of terrific things.
Is it ridiculous that I want to get Em and I matching pink Converse?
I read this as Corvettes. I thought it was a great idea.
A friend of mine was on Komodo Island a few years ago on a photo shoot with a famous female photographer (who's a bit of a loon). The islanders wanted to attract a dragon for them to see so they needed some bait. The photographer eagerly offered up some of her used feminine hygiene products as bait. She called it her "contribution to the hunt." Um...eeeewwww.
I'm in a korean food coma. And in denial that tomorrow is friend's official last day here.
I could just hear the Jaws music...
Probe a Jewish person's thought process / Go far enough back in a Wiccan's thought process, / In an atheist's reasoning for his moral judgment,
Having been each of these at more than one point in my life, I can say with absolute certainty that my core moral values have never stemmed from my religious beliefs, ever. My core moral values are it, they're as deep as it goes. There's nothing more to probe, period, the end.
I don't know why you don't believe me and I honestly don't care. But the statements you are making about what you appear to think are universal aspects of human nature are demonstrably not as universal as you think.
You even say it yourself, here:
Different reasons and different rationalizations (and even different moral positions themselves) appeal to different people for any number of reasons.
Those reasons (and I think rationalizations is a far more accurate word) may include religion, may include the big "why are we here" questions, or they may not. In my case, they do not, and never have.
Having been each of these at more than one point in my life, I can say with absolute certainty that my core moral values have never stemmed from my religious beliefs, ever. My core moral values are it, they're as deep as it goes. There's nothing more to probe, period, the end.
But you weren't raised in a sealed jar. They come from somewhere and, likely as not, your parents and their moral/religious beliefs/reasoning.