RE: The Struggle to do Good
May 31, 2020 at 6:04 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2020 at 6:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
This thread has only gotten stranger since the first page. Which didn't seem possible on the first page.
It' just not strange, OP, for human beings to experience feelings of guilt. Certainly not strange enough to wonder, on account of feeling guilt, whether it's being beamed into our heads by some prude ghost.
It would be stranger if you didn't feel guilt or embarrassment. For instance, at imploring others to prove, to you, that genocide and beheadings over apostasy is evil. Something like that might warrant concern about the sorts of things god crams into our skulls.
If your contention is that a god caused you to notice the bad in something that you've done, there can be no argument over the existence of bad things™. It's contained within your claim, focused on some point of minutiae about how and when you touch yourself. You cannot cogently ask to have The Bad™ proven to you, when you are asserting it's existence as the content of a divine missive.
This is where we take a breath and suggest that the question was performative, that it doesn't reflect your position or attitude. You may even think that genocide and head chopping is bad because a god said so. Others, especially here, are going to think it's bad for other reasons. Boiling this issue down to you asking others how they determine that things are bad aside from having a god send us messages. It would be awfully useful to have a way to determine good and bad aside from god directly communicating as much to a person..no matter what the subject is. We're not all on gods cc list, as you claim to be.
So, with that in mind, if god weren't telling you not to look at titties, how would you (and how did you) answer these questions, which you posed to us?
How are you wronging someone, and why would you be urged not to look at porn?
It' just not strange, OP, for human beings to experience feelings of guilt. Certainly not strange enough to wonder, on account of feeling guilt, whether it's being beamed into our heads by some prude ghost.
It would be stranger if you didn't feel guilt or embarrassment. For instance, at imploring others to prove, to you, that genocide and beheadings over apostasy is evil. Something like that might warrant concern about the sorts of things god crams into our skulls.
If your contention is that a god caused you to notice the bad in something that you've done, there can be no argument over the existence of bad things™. It's contained within your claim, focused on some point of minutiae about how and when you touch yourself. You cannot cogently ask to have The Bad™ proven to you, when you are asserting it's existence as the content of a divine missive.
This is where we take a breath and suggest that the question was performative, that it doesn't reflect your position or attitude. You may even think that genocide and head chopping is bad because a god said so. Others, especially here, are going to think it's bad for other reasons. Boiling this issue down to you asking others how they determine that things are bad aside from having a god send us messages. It would be awfully useful to have a way to determine good and bad aside from god directly communicating as much to a person..no matter what the subject is. We're not all on gods cc list, as you claim to be.
So, with that in mind, if god weren't telling you not to look at titties, how would you (and how did you) answer these questions, which you posed to us?
Quote:In an attempt to uncover the source of this urge, I remember asking myself various questions like if two consenting adults choose to have sex on camera and purposely disseminate the footage to the public, then in what way am I wronging anyone by viewing the footage in the privacy of my own home? Or perhaps an even better example would be an unmarried woman who photographs herself nude, and then purposely disseminates the photo to the public. Why am I being urged to not look at such material?
How are you wronging someone, and why would you be urged not to look at porn?
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