Why the truth is not in them ??

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

Very well said.... That dont contradict any of my past posts here then i concur....

By the way these words are for me the objective foundational experience of moral imagination , and moral imagination is the only faculty or organ needed by humanity to go trough next millenium....

The moral imagination part is past the " i dont cheat you because i dont want to be cheat by you " to the " How can i love you more and in a better way? "

The future is less determined by technology than by moral imagination...

I read a novel of S-F 45 years ago and in it the writer was describing many advanced civilizations, all more advanced and powerful than the others, except the last and the more advanced, no visible technology, and pure moral imagination....

Olaf Stapledon "Last men and first men "

mahgister, it helps to keep in mind a lot of the criticism is coming from people with a tenuous connection with reality... two guys make stuff up about it, attack me personally, and one even ignores actual ad hominems directed at me and accuses me of being the one resorting to ad hominems. Unreal.....

If that’s how ill-equipped they are to understand clear concise prose imagine how they must struggle with your ideas. .... But to get complex and hard to express ideas it helps to be capable of having ideas and thinking about things. This rules them out....

Most of what we’re doing is frankly beyond them. Might be literally truly beyond them, as in no matter what they never will get it. Or might be beyond them merely by virtue of being too physically or mentally lazy to get up off the comfortable couch and try. Either way they’re not getting it.

.....To do what we do takes imagination, creativity, intelligence, and perseverance. It takes initiative. Qualities they lack.....Talk is all they have. ..... But who knows, trashing others may be the one thing that gives their lives meaning.

Someone better be careful about that "false witness" thing. That’s a lot of trash talking!

Whatever happened to taking the high road?

millercarbon i consider all people here, particularly those partaking others opinions friends, i must confess that i like to argue, but i try the best i can no to be too sarcastic, too personal, or not so friendly...

I confess also being more sensible than some, and a bit too much reactive or impetuous...  :)



«Life is short, hate is long but not longer, joy is eternal....» -Groucho Marx

mapman,

’Whatever happened to taking the high road?’


Whilst the ancient Greeks were taking the high road, the Romans took the short cuts - and we know what happened.

Still, it’s not entirely clear just who the eventual long term winners were.

Audiophiles I’m guessing, are likely to be more Greek than Roman.

Maybe but the Romans didn’t turn out so well in the end either. Nor the barbarians.

The book is still open for us all these days but its not looking good in many parts from a ten commandments perspective.....we’ll see!