Maybe "wrong" and "right" are not very absolute terms. For example, some things c20H25N3o say I also agree.
Sure, but it still has nothing to do with love.
Good thing you asked. When you love your kid, don't you try to explain things for your kid?
So what are you saying, these people you try to explain things to are mentally inferior? You explain things to your children because yes, you love them, but because they don't actually know much. By the same token it seems these people you want to change, isn't really about love, but that their opinions are wrong, yours are right, and they need teaching. It does come across as being more self-righteousness and less love.
The same way here. The only difference is that people already come with some knowledge.
Yeah, but that knowledge is flawed, and requires you to put them on the right path.
So that knowledge has to be analized and then we may find a common ground on what is true
Would you quit if there is no common ground?
The thing that makes us unique is our choices.
See, I don't see it like this, and as with the other thread, I feel Mark Twain can highlight it better..
Here
As for uniqueness - yes we differ based upon our lives adventures, but its balanced well with how much we're alike aswell.
I try to make them aware that they can choose who they are. But they can only change who they are if they want to. And it is hard, because people don't like to change their personalities. it's quite hard. Me, myself, am doing that right now. I'm trying to become less serious and more fun, but still keeping what I've learnt throught the last ten years. But it's hard...
Actually becoming more 'fun' is kind of easy: Firstly get rid of the wife, secondly punch the boss. That's all there is to it
I know that is logic, and love is not logical.
I suppose that depends on how you see love.
I haven't been there for a long time, have I? Does that give you a clue that I've been evolving?
Umm... to be honest, I never gave your absence much thought. No offence meant, that's just how I am
Why would you "preach" to them if you don't love them? Doesn't "preaching" implies that you care?
Preaching implies caring? I wouldn't say so. The dictionary says:
"To advocate, especially to urge acceptance of or compliance with"
And that is what I would have to agree with when faced with the term "preaching". It's self-declared superiority. "Here's what I think, you must abide by it". That's how I see preaching.
I don't argue to prove them wrong, I argue in search for truth - on both ways. the same Socrates did. But again, people thought that he was arguing to prove others wrong when he was just trying to achieve excellence. He died for that, btw....
Argumentum ad verecundiam
"The Appeal to Authority uses admiration of a famous person to try and win support for an assertion."
I'm messing with you, don't worry.
I never said you didn't. In fact I agreed by saying: "by using an argument", it then followed with "no proof, evidence, or even worthwhile speculation but merely opinion and assumption".
Everyone has arguments - it's how they can support them that matters.
If you say I'm just like the mass majority of religious people, then you don't really have a very good perspective of myself. Even because I see religion in a completely different then most people.
Well, it goes back to my "people are very much alike" speech. I'm sure you differ to a vast degree, but there are always patterns that can be seen by the way people say things, the way people do things and so on.
Who cares about being superior?
Everyone to a degree. Quick question.. do you consider yourself on the same level as monkeys or daffodils? People often get offended by the notion.
Besides.... is a completely dumb rich person superior then a wise and poor one?
Sure he is.. when it comes to who has the superior bank account. From this, it would follow that in ways we're all superior, and in ways we're all inferior. However, 'truth' cannot be superior when it is purely subjective, and as such preaching is wrong - because you'd try to imprint your 'truths' on top of someone elses 'truths', usually without the slightest care for what their truths just so happened to be.
Note that's not a you-you, it's a general 'you'.
