akoreamerican
Registered Senior Member
you keep saying that, is that your mantra?.
All you are doing is pretending.
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you keep saying that, is that your mantra?.
All you are doing is pretending.
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.you keep saying that, is that your mantra?
i didnt realize i was playing a game, what game am i playing?.
Does that win you points in your little game.
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It isn't taking offense that's a threat to world peace; it's acting on the offense that's a threat to world peace.i believe when people take offense when none was given is a great threat to world peace. just look at all those killings on behalf of religion
Why does God not follow the Golden Rule? His best rule?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-nHw0_Fos&feature=player_embedded
I have a hard time seeing God as --- doing unto others as he would want done to himself --- in the clip above. I cannot see God wanting someone to do what he did to the women who owned those wombs to him. He is therefore certainly not walking his talk or fallowing his own good advice.
It seems that people are more responsible than God as we are trying to get everyone on board the Golden Rule that God ignores.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03132009/watch.html
Regards
DL
That isn't the Golden Rule at all.In paradise or the Garden of Eden, the golden rule was the case in the beginning. There were no rule beyond one rule, which was not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
The question about the golden rule and God is really; why doesn't God treat everyone like they are small children, instead of teens and adults? Parents are more likely to use a golden rule approach with their smallest children. The little ones are being natural and spontaneous and their mischief is not planned. The parent will use gentle patient.
With teenage children, who often become rebellious finding their own place in life, the same golden rule attitude can reinforce bad behavior. If the teen borrows the family car, without a having a drivers license, and you show unconditional love and smile at his mischief, he will do it again and maybe kill himself next time. The little child does not push it that far so gentle is all that is needed.
In paradise or the Garden of Eden, the golden rule was the case in the beginning. There were no rule beyond one rule, which was not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Once they ate of this tree, they would know good and evil. This meant they were no longer just being spontaneous, with no prior knowledge, therefore innocent. Eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil meant they now had knowledge such that the childhood of man was over. The teen will plan more than the small children due to prior knowledge. After that, you can't reward the teen for stealing the car, even if you want to, less you reinforce bad behavior with acceptance of potentially dangerous actions.
With willpower comes choices. It is up to the teenager and adult to choose good and apply the golden rule to his fellow humans.
Would you improve by your own efforts if everything in your life was given to you in a silver platter? I sense this is what everyone is trying to say (not directly, of course) when complaining about suffering and things they deserve, because the Universe is mean and cold and does not conform to our desires.Don't make the mistake of thinking that homeless people don't want to improve by their own efforts.
Why does God not follow the Golden Rule? His best rule?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-nHw0_Fos&feature=player_embedded
I have a hard time seeing God as --- doing unto others as he would want done to himself --- in the clip above. I cannot see God wanting someone to do what he did to the women who owned those wombs to him. He is therefore certainly not walking his talk or fallowing his own good advice.
It seems that people are more responsible than God as we are trying to get everyone on board the Golden Rule that God ignores.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03132009/watch.html
Regards
DL
Would you improve by your own efforts if everything in your life was given to you in a silver platter? I sense this is what everyone is trying to say (not directly, of course) when complaining about suffering and things they deserve, because the Universe is mean and cold and does not conform to our desires.
I think a more interesting question would be: what kind of reality would you expect to live if God did follow this golden rule? Would anything be created if didn't die, in the first place? If there was only happiness and no suffering? It doesn't make any sense.
The act of giving someone what it wants without asking anything in return is, in my opinion, the worst thing someone can do. If you approach one of these parasites and give them intangible things or want to improve them in any way that does not include giving them money, they will refuse your "help".
Why do you restrict your comprehension of God to the Bible?
jan.
I do not.
As an esoteric ecumenist, I gain knowledge and comprehension wherever I find it and I look in many diverse places including nature.
I use the bible here because what, 95% of people are Westerners who know the bible and are willing to debate and discuss it.
If I used the Qur'an for instance, all I would get would be brain dead Muslim literalists who cannot discuss or debate in a worthy way.
Regards
DL
Your question is God related, not people related.
Your question implies that God is a hypocrite, because He does not follow His own rules.
jan.
Correct and that God is the same God that the vast majority follow be they Christian of Muslim.
That God is a lying hypocrite who says, do as I say and not as I do.
Regards
DL