RandFan
Mormon Atheist
- Joined
- Dec 18, 2001
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Of course I can. That is exactly how I want to be treated. I was recently in very serious financial hardship. I did not want others to pity me or to feel guilty for enjoying the fruits of their labor. I only wanted help to get back on my feet. My neighbors (JREF members) did just that. Since then I have not been able to afford fancy restaurants or many of life's luxuries. They have. I have no resentment at all to them for that. I'm happy to be able to work and feed my family and I am on the road back to financial stability. Thanks to the Golden Rule.If you "treat others as you wish to be treated" you cannot enjoy luxuries while your neighbor has less than yourself.
Not at all. If you loved your neighbor as yourself you would not consume any more resources than necessary for you to survive. How could you?What a bunch of crap. Loving thy neighbor as thyself is every bit as flexible as treating others as you wish to be treated is.
Again, you posit no argument. This is all rhetorical and does not advance an argument. Does not establish a definite proposition.You personify why I left Southern California so long ago. The place is truly out of this world; disconnected; headed in a "different" direction. Up is down, right is wrong, wrong is right, and any and every bizarre thing can be explained with a straight face, because you actually believe that line of BS.
You continue to engage in contradiction and rhetoric. My guess is that you can't stop. Ego, ain't it a bitch?