JT, I understand the advice you are giving, but I think that outside of possibly a handful Tibetan or Shoalin Monks very, very, very few people can achieve the type of introspection you prescribe, especially those that live in Western societies.
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Forget the 10 Commandments Follow the book of Tao instead....
by EvilForce inas another thread rages on and on over whether we'd be better off following the 10 commandments i would posit that we would be better off following the tao te ching (the holy book for taoists) rather than the bible or 10 commandments.
how many holy wars have been carried on by christians.
how many christians are engaged in war right now?
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Forget the 10 Commandments Follow the book of Tao instead....
by EvilForce inas another thread rages on and on over whether we'd be better off following the 10 commandments i would posit that we would be better off following the tao te ching (the holy book for taoists) rather than the bible or 10 commandments.
how many holy wars have been carried on by christians.
how many christians are engaged in war right now?
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I have always been a huge fan of eastern philosophy. Bushido got ahold of me when I was young and has never let go. Taoism is excellent and I enjoy Zen writings as well. I'd say a culture based on Taoism wouldn't be a bad idea at all.
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What is your quirkiest quirk?
by damselfly ini, damselfly, can not knowingly eat the little squiggly, umbilical cord things in eggs.
i have to very carefully separate the whites from the yolk and remove the squiggly bits with a knife.
i get gaggy just thinking about them.
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Tetra, you are a good egg, thanks for the heads up and no clown pictures. I hated the freaks from when I was a little kid, then Stephen King's IT just sent me over the top. May Ronald McDonald burn in hell.
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Do You Think Bag Searching Violates Your Rights?
by minimus inin view of the transit bombings, do you feel that police should be able to search you or your bags at anytime?
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Evil, I have to say that I agree with your sentiments. I was chuckling darkly at your post where you mentioned being asked for your papers. You are right, this stuff is all closing the barn door after the fact, spend the time, money, etc on intelligence operations not turning the police into storm troops.
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What is your quirkiest quirk?
by damselfly ini, damselfly, can not knowingly eat the little squiggly, umbilical cord things in eggs.
i have to very carefully separate the whites from the yolk and remove the squiggly bits with a knife.
i get gaggy just thinking about them.
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Clowns, I hate clowns, they totally creep me out.
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Give me the beat...
by FMZ ingive me the the beat boys and free my soul.
i wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away..
spread the love, people..
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Great song, and one that it seems like just about everyone did a cover of. Dobie's is obviously the benchmark but Bob Seger did a pretty decent job with it too.
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Actually we were discussing both, as they are entertwined to a certain extent, but as I said before, discussing such issues with a layman is often futile, unless you are a lawyer, then I would apologize for that comment and be more than a bit bewildered at your responses.
I will repeat myself, I heard exactly what you said and understand exactly what you said and was responding to both your pro-abortion, or should I say, your pro-my body is mine to do whatever I want with and agreeing with you that the domestic laws suck, but saying that you seemed to not really mind that they sucked.
I enjoyed the discussion, and hope that you have a nice day as well as you have more of it left where you are than where I am.
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Stillla, there are often mitigating circumstances, as with homicide we have different types, premeditate, depraved indifference, manslaughter, etc. Mitigating circumstances are used to lessen the severity of the crime.
If I were king I would probaby go with no abortion as retroactive birth control, allowed for these extreme (and in the huge minority of cases) situations rape, incest, endangering the mother, etc.
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Oh no, I got your agreement, right before you went on to say that you were glad to be a woman and recipient of the benefits of such laws, and then more in the vein of dominion over your body, and the arguement that drug laws don't stop people from doing drugs, no, no more than the laws on the books regarding murder don't stop people from that activity either. But the laws do provide punishment for said acts, which, and laymen keep missing the point here, this is not a question of forcing your beliefs on another, this is a question of protecting life. We have laws regarding murder, which we have decided as a society that the taking of another's life without justification is wrong. The debate with abortion is that unborn children deserve that same protection under the law, the sticky point being when the become "people." This is the same problem with assisted suicide, I mean what's the big problem there? So old person decides they want to end their life, why stop them, eh? Its because we value life in this society, we think its precious and should be protected. Its not about someone trying to project their morality on you, its about people trying to protect life.
But on some level it appears that you do seem to get the inherent problem with the situation with regards to the domestic laws. But your advice to your childen would seem to negate most of the need for abortion, no? Why be so gung ho for abortion if what you really think the problems is, is people not wanting to take responsibility for their actions.
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Well, its attitudes like that that allow me to sleep with no problem when I am able to get one of my client's out of having to pay child support or alimony.