Congrats, Jesse! I hope the response is the beginning of terrific things.
It's all about choices, Faith. The ones we make, and the ones we don't. Oh, and the consequences. Those are always fun.
Angelus ,'Smile Time'
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.
Calli - Mar 30, 2006 9:14:09 am PST #7280 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Trudy Booth - Mar 30, 2006 9:16:38 am PST #7281 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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.
Spidra Webster - Mar 30, 2006 9:18:04 am PST #7282 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Cashmere - Mar 30, 2006 9:25:07 am PST #7283 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
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.
sarameg - Mar 30, 2006 9:55:01 am PST #7284 of 10001
I'm in a korean food coma. And in denial that tomorrow is friend's official last day here.
Trudy Booth - Mar 30, 2006 9:56:07 am PST #7285 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Ailleann - Mar 30, 2006 9:57:43 am PST #7286 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
I could just hear the Jaws music...
Jessica - Mar 30, 2006 10:03:16 am PST #7287 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Trudy Booth - Mar 30, 2006 10:14:32 am PST #7288 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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.
Calli - Mar 30, 2006 10:17:45 am PST #7289 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
They come from somewhere and, likely as not, your parents and their moral/religious beliefs.
By that logic, my Gaia worship is a direct result of my parents' firm Methodist beliefs and my upbringing therein. A conclusion that would probably surprise them (and John Wesley, for that matter).