thought for the day.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by painter

In many ways... Charles is our Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain) of the twenty-first century.

Thanks for the kind words, but I'm nobody or nothing.

Really.

Chas

[Charles]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Be original! Be a Pepper!

That ad campaign always annoyed me.

Regards,

D-Ray

Gotta hand it to the Mad Ave boys, coming up with a way to exploit the herd mentality by suggesting that you can somehow rise above it and become "special", simply by becoming the member of a different herd that drinks a different soda pop.

He's a sucker, she's a sucker, wouldn't you like to be a sucker too?

Snob appeal on the cheap, I guess.

Chas

[piece-itpete]

D has pointed out the problem with believing that the golden rule is universal.

Originally Posted by Charles

I'm thinking that the three of us should get matching tattoos, so that we can be different.

Chas

BAM!!

Originally Posted by Zeke

..

If we came from nothing and will become nothing, then we are nothing.

...

Excellent Zeke.

Pete

[merrylander]

I'm with Zeke simply because it makes sense. I belong to no "organized religion" simply because they all seem more interested in the organization than the message. Analyzed, Jesus' teachings make a great deal of sense as a method for living with each other with reduced friction, always a good idea. If I am wrong, I will not know it, if the deniers are wrong they are in for a pleasant surprise.

BTW I much prefer Rabbi Hillel's version "That which is distasteful to you do not do unto others, this is the whole law the rest is mere commentary."

[barbara]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I guess I am more linear in my thought process?

If we came from nothing and will become nothing, then we are nothing.

I can't buy that or I become a true narcissist.

Don't know about you, but I did not 'come from nothing'. I came because my parents co mingled sperm and egg....

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by barbara

Don't know about you, but I did not 'come from nothing'. I came because my parents co mingled sperm and egg....

...and an intangible we call love.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by barbara

Don't know about you, but I did not 'come from nothing'. I came because my parents co mingled sperm and egg....

Not being an ass: and where did they come from?

Eventually, there's an impasse to believing we came from nothing, at least for me.

[Oerets]

I have seen pure evil in humans and good to a fault in others. Now is this do to a force behind this, guess I attribute it to the human animal.
I seem to believe more in a reincarnation sorta philosophy. I have had to many psychic experiences happen in my life to not believe their is something after passing from this dimension.




Barney

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

D has pointed out the problem with believing that the golden rule is universal.
Pete

My understanding of the so called golden rule is literal as I would hope it would be understood by anyone else. It is a recommendation towards a personal code of conduct that benefits all equally.

Sophistry aside, where's the problem in that?

Rabbi Hillel provides the classical response to any argument to the contrary.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Not being an ass: and where did they come from?

Eventually, there's an impasse to believing we came from nothing, at least for me.

We did not come from nothing. There is no such thing as nothing. This is where people get confused.