sandorski
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zCypher
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StageLeft
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It's interesting how you have no time for religion but second on your way to live is the second greatest commandmentJust general things.....
Make lists. Seriously about everything, shit gets done.
Treat others as you want to be treated.
If someone comes down on you come down on them like a ton of bricks. They'll pick an easier target next time or hopefully learned their lesson.
Pay now or pay later but you Willl pay. Meaning if you work hard early in school work and whatnot you will live pretty conformable later in life. If you're lazy earlier on you will pay later in poverty and worrying.
This last one was one of my dads favorite expressions and now I use it on mine.
Not doing homework - "Pay now or pay later but you Will pay." with being a flunky test failing idiot
Not giving 100% in batting practice - "Pay now or pay later but you Will pay." with strikeouts
and so on...
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zCypher
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Interesting for sure, I happen to agree with that notion and am not religious by any definition.It's interesting how you have no time for religion but second on your way to live is the second greatest commandment
monovillage
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By reason, in a small r republican way (sovereign and for societal advancement). Preferably reading Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes, Locke, the Federalist Papers and Deuteronomy... among others.
It's either that or whores and blow.
I've found that the Anti-Federalist papers are a very good counterpoint to the Fed papers and more timely.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/145...J122C19CK64725
Zebo
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It's interesting how you have no time for religion but second on your way to live is the second greatest commandment
No time but I can take things out that makes for more harmonious co-existence.
Look a desert mystic got some philosophy right - so sue me
There are some things I like about Qu'ran too.
‘And be true to every promise- for, verily you willl be called to account for every promise which you have made.’
It's not about what they get right my disdain comes from - it's about what they get so wrong.
e.g. But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.
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BoomerD
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Tristicus
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It's interesting how you have no time for religion but second on your way to live is the second greatest commandment
From the title, that is absolutely true. I have a feeling that if a lot of atheists/agnostics/etc. got to exeperience places like where I am currently at, it'd make them do some heavy thinking.
Settle down Beavis... We are not deciding how someone else lives their life and nobody is making choices for someone else.
Why the outrage?
Zebo
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Yeah. I'm sure you do. Some people like total regulation of life and explanation of the universe to them, not for me bro. I like to re learn, discover, walk my own path.. (call me hard headed) or dare I say my own god? Blasphemy!:
Maybe it was from watching too much Kung Fu as a kid I dunno but "I walk the earth" and like it that way.
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Tristicus
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Yeah. I'm sure you do. Some people like total regulation of life and explanation of the universe to them, not for me bro. I like to re learn, discover, walk my own path.. (call me hard headed) or dare I say my own god? Blasphemy!:
Total regulation of life? Lol. I do what the fuck I want, and could care less what others think about it. There is no "one way" to do anything, especially "religion". The fact that you THINK that way shows that you don't know much about it.
Actually there is only one way to do anything both for you and Zebo. There is no such thing as free will for machines that are programmed when they don't even know they are programmed. Absolutely everything happens exactly as it has to for machines. Every person who lives in thought is living in the past and the past is dead.
The Anti-Federalist papers are excellent, as are many others. My personal favorite is Agrippa because he lays a theoretical foundation and argues in much the same method as Madison who was an incomparable genius.
While the Federalists (especially Hamilton in Fed 84) argue that the Constitution doesn't expressly give the gov't many powers, and therefore anything it does outside the scope of those expressed powers would not be allowed, Agrippa best replies that no... it's the nature of a gov't to grow and then grow some more.
I believe both are right and both are wrong in this particular instance and in general. But I am not interested in judgments, I am interested in reasons... in this case and political history in general. I will say I tend to lean Federalist in some fundamental ways, the biggest one being 'I say "yes" to gov't and write down all the powers it has'; as opposed to 'saying "yes" to gov't and writing down all the rights people have.'
In the end, the Anti-Federalists were basically more concerned with states' rights and powers than individual rights and powers, and state governments can be just as tyrannical. But the Anti-Federalist papers are great reading because much of the rationale behind our institutions and thinking lie within.
Politics should be irrelevant. What should be everyone's primary concern is increasing personal freedom and destroying tyranny.
Jaskalas
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No. Sarcasm would be:
No one should make decisions for themselves as career politicians and bureaucrats are much better at determining what is best for everyone. Books? No one besides career politicians should be literate, since reading breeds education, education breeds liberty, and liberty overturns abusive government.
For even asking this question, you should be invited to spa at an American version of the Gulags in Siberia. You are an obvious threat to "those in power."
But God taught Mohammad to convert people, tax them into submission/slavery, or kill them. Not my idea of how one should live their life.
Although... WWJD : I would like to see how much woop-ass he would personally level on Wall Street.
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