(March 6, 2020 at 2:22 am)unityconversation Wrote: If anything at the very least the dogs in their own way was tying to bring comfort to the the individuals.
If a dog is making someone optimistic then it is teaching them optimism.
(March 6, 2020 at 2:22 am)unityconversation Wrote: Are those the individuals personal dogs?
Were the dogs trained?
Dude, you don't need to train a dog to be optimistic. Find almost any stray dog and you'll see that it has all the "qualities" that you enumerated, like Integrity, Courageousness, Honesty, Generosity, Loyalty, Perseverance, Respectfulness, Politeness, Responsibility, Kindness, Humility, Lovingness, Compassion, Optimism, Fairness, Reliability, Forgiveness, Conscientiousness, Authenticity, Self-discipline.
And if you want to learn those "qualities" you might as well learn it from a dog because your "philosophy" is very simple-minded, considering that it is not good to always be humble, optimistic, generous, loyal, etc.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
