straightUp wrote:
Yeah, get some sleep and if you wake up an decide to tell me more, please make it factual. Broad generalizations and opinions without any basis don't prove anything.
Okay, since you wish to hang on to every word that I wrote instead of contenplating the meaning of what I wrote, I will do the same and here goes:
straightUp wrote:
Look, people have been getting married long before any of the Abrahamic religions started teaching monotheism. It's absurd to claim that marriage has no basis other than God.
I wrote: "God is Love. Love is God". This was my statement. Before Abrahamic religions there still was God. Therefore you wrote a misconception. So its absurd to claim that Marriage does not have a basis in Love, therefore God. Statement still stands and it stands so strong that it has lasted over 8000 years in human history. I guess you didn't get that memo.
straightUp wrote:
Love happens whether people believe in God or not. It's a human trait. If you want to dress it up in religion that's your prerogative. If you want everyone else to believe what you believe well, that's a personal problem.
Love is a human trait, that was given to man by the source of Love, God. This part of my statement is wrapped up in thousands of years of theology. Bottom line is Faith, Hope, and Love are virtues that God granted to man, to increase the knowledge and wisdom of man. Regardless of what God you ascribe to the meaning remains the same from Age to Age. However, in the case of Good vs Evil, Faith, Hope, and Love can be just as healing as it can be destructive. It is a virtue, that can be used as a power, that all human beings have as an innate part of their self being. Therefore, one can punish and that same person can forgive for the very same reasons. Therefore the best exercise of wisdom is Live and Let Live.
straightUp wrote:
Just because you get some excessive people with some crazy ideas doesn't mean they represent the views of of the left in general. Our agenda isn't set by a few crazy strays. That would be like me saying the conservative agenda set by the KKK.
To show how fair I am, I agree with the premise of this statement. We can all agree that the extreme of our perspective groups, whether Liberal or Conservative, the crazies are not really accepted, nor do we accept their psycho views. However, if history is observed, the KKK originated out of the Democrat party not the Republican party. Jesse James was part of the Democrat party, Frank James too. They were Southern Democrats from Missouri.
straightUp wrote:
First of all, not everyone needs to religion to do that and secondly, if you really love thy neighbor you would wear a mask to help protect them from C****-**. If you aren't 100% that the masks make any difference then you would wear one anyway to be on the safe side. If you ARE 100% sure then you're more committed to that conclusion than even Trump himself, who wore a mask to a conference this morning. But even THEN, if you really love your neighbor you would wear a mask in public anyway because those neighbors that you claim to love aren't always so sure and telling them that your opinion is more important than their lives isn't exactly a gesture of love.
First of all, not everyone needs to religion to do... (
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"If you really love thy neighbor, you would..." that is a very slippery slope, for the argument could be made, "if you really love thy neighbor, you would not need a mask because of your faith and you can teach others to have faith therefore we will get over the v***s"
As ridiculous the counter statement is, it does demonstrate my point. This begins the debate of the government telling the people what to do. So for your own personal safety who's decision is more effective, yours? or the government's? especially when it is a matter of life and death.
straightUp wrote:
I never said that the universal desire to live in peace, happiness and prosperity is propaganda. Nor have I said success is punishment, nor have ANY of the Democrats in government said either of those things. So please stop being so dramatic. Stop trying to frame the fight against corporate corruption as a fight against success. It's one of the most r****ded things I see conservatives doing.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." ---The Constitution of the United States
The preamble establishes the rules and regulations based upon the Declaration of Independence the immortal words of Jefferson, who wrote:
"We hold these t***hs to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"--Declaration of Independence.
These unalienable Rights are exercised to ensure happiness while journeying through life. The exercise of these rights include peace and prosperity based upon the principles of that we established in the founding documents. Also, in a free society it is self evident that freedom breaks the chains of monopolies that dictate how people are to live. To participate in this type of freedom allows a man to decide for himself what is equal. Therefore has the freedom to achieve that reality of e******y. Now in the Constitution e******y only applies to law, however society sets their own rules which the government is entrusted to regulate to provide what the constitution's preamble states. Therefore, Hamilton is correct when he and Madison agreed that the purpose of government is to restrict the people. This is called loosely the order of freedom. For more information on the order of freedom read St. Thomas Aquinas' book, "Treatise on Law"--its a good read. Hundreds of years before the constitution of the US was written.
Basically in order for freedom to be embraced and fully experienced, one must exercise it in a peaceful, orderly, way. In doing so, the ideas are pure, clear and concise. This is where the basis of the American freedom comes from, otherwise known in the Declaration of Independence, as the "powers of the earth". Each one of us has the powers of the earth with in us. That being said. Attacking a successful entity for the profits they make is absurd. However, if the corporation is harming the public, then the government has a right to regulate or dissolve such entity. By over taxing a corporation that is successful, you make the corporation move, which makes the community lose jobs. In doing so, you damage the community you belong to.
Thus, your comment is moot and not valid. However, it is a good argument if the corporation is damaging the public which they serve.
straightUp wrote:
I don't know if you are still considering "love" synonymous with "God", or what you mean by advancing the human person. But I don't think principals have to come from love or God before they can benefit mankind.
after I stated, "Good principles don't die. But these principles must come from love before they advance the human person."
What is the human condition? The human condition is all of the characteristics and key events that compose the essentials of human existence, including birth, growth, emotion, aspiration, conflict, and mortality. As the human condition matures or advances, human beings increase in knowledge, wisdom, and prosperity. There was a time when the human condition regressed, this period of time is known as the medieval period of time. During this period of time the Roman Catholic Church was tested, and humanity was tested, for the worthiness of its position in nature. These Christians established a kingdom based upon the old Roman Empire headed by Charlemagne who consolidated the kingdoms of Europe into one kings and queens of Europe. For centuries after the fall of Rome, leaders of Europe dreamt of a time when the power would be consolidated into a single kingdom. This was accomplished by Charlemagne.
Thus, the line of Charlemagne is within the whole of the royal families of Europe. Due to this disaster, which did not work in ancient days, the new countries established a different form of government. The United State's revolution against the great king of Britain, brought cause for a new establishment of humanity. One where the freedom ideas of the ancient Greeks and ancient Israel were flawed. Jefferson and Madison created a system where the Constitution was the law of the land, not any one single individual. Freedom from King to subject was the first step in breaking the ancient rule of master and s***e.
As the colonists gained ground in establishing a new wave of thinking on how the people shall be ruled the human condition changed. Freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of the press, right to bear arms, and freedom from unlawful search and seizure, all of these ideas became rights, the rights all Americans believe and support. These rights were elevated for the purpose of holding sacred powers that God granted us naturally. Now man matured enough to accept these rights and have now vowed to protect them. This advanced the human condition.
I speak freely of God, so should all men. Whether or not you believe in him, it doesn't matter. We can say all day long to the sun, "I want you to rise in the west and set in the east". Neither the Sun, nor the moon would acknowledge the man. However if God commanded it, it would be done.
God created principles, and man discovers them. For the principles themselves come from knowledge and wisdom, along with freedom, Man can make righteous decisions. All man has to do is discover these principles.
straightUp wrote:
There you go being all dramatic again. What I demonstrated was a calm and logical response to your baseless claims. You haven't responded directly to ANY of my counter points probably because you can't and yes, I get tired of opinionated people telling me things that I know are not true. So maybe there's some frustration on my part, but that's a far cry from being controlled by hatred.
When I describe the principles, you say I am dramatic. Why? You claim that the statements I made are baseless. So the human condition which is all of the characteristics and key events that compose the essentials of human existence, including birth, growth, emotion, aspiration, conflict, and mortality; is baseless? How?
It is the human condition that can be measured, as we go from yesterday into tomorrow. And the knowledge of the human condition, can increase the evolution of man from a savage to a civilized man or from an ancient way, to a modern way. But I guess the history of man from savage to modern is baseless? I always examine the human condition and the human nature of man. I am a student of that. It is here I have found the difference between the real and the phony. There are many principles of both the conservatives and liberals I have supported. But I guess these principles are baseless too.
If all of this is baseless then what's the point in worrying about the office of President then? If all is baseless, and has no effect, why worry about it?
Because I constantly speak of Christianity, and Americanism. I speak of the benefits of both, and the rules that make them golden and beautiful. But at the same time I recognize the dangers of both, as well as the attacks of both. Separation of Church and State is a concept to keep the fantasy ideas of religion out of the facts. Myth or fantasy cannot be proven, but facts can be.
What if I said, I can prove the existence of God, in the same manner in which the ancients used in their functional statements to establish the foundation of all the world? The ancient people witnessed events, that they believe were so awesome, that fear was brought about them and they cautiously approached. In this simple minded way, they discovered the principles we take for granted. Therefore, nothing I say is baseless, but the beholder has a tendency of treating some of what I say as baseless and in turn misses the whole message of what I wrote. Same is true of you.
Dissecting each word a person posts, is like dissecting the Bible. I can find contradictions in the bible as I find contradictions in which people describe their point of view. But even in contradictions the meaning can be found. I have completed at this point my dissection of your review of my statements. In conclusion, some of what you posted is good criticism of my view point, although we disagree, I can accept criticism. This is healthy, but all in all, I believe you have grown to be closed minded worse then the past conservatives were toward liberal ideas.
I see a lot of your comments to be rendered on me as condensation. When in fact it is you that fear the future and try to control all those that you are around.
Lets talk about control for a moment. Why should a free person control another free person and why is that the duty of society? If I am free and you are free, that means you can criticize me, just as I can criticize you. Therefore we establish that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Therefore, in an orderly way, we can establish solutions to all the problems we discuss by approaching the problems from two different angles and accomplish the impossible. Or we can fight against each other, calling each other names left and right. Which category do you fall into?
Control, everyone seeks control. I don't. I don't want to control, and if I live in a truly free society I need not control. Once we fail to protect the free society and it turns into a s***e/master situation, then the need for control is necessary but an evil nonetheless.
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