Unsure whether my time at AF and TTA has been positive or negative.
July 9, 2014 at 3:30 am
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2014 at 3:34 am by Rampant.A.I..)
Good point. I made a longish facebook post the other night about objective morality being a standard to strive toward, not an actual construct.
It was nice to see some of my friends actually shared it.
As near as I can tell, the lady thinks Jesus is an ideal she tries to emulate, and that other religions have the same type of ideal figures.
I'm down with that. In my opinion, every major religious figure is a series of tall tales built around someone who was fed up with the status quo, and wanted to change it.
The whole idea of sin is lost on people who want to use it to grovel in front of a higher power.
We all make mistakes, and have really good reasons for justifying them. The sin idea reminds us that even with the best intentions, we can hurt other people, and should balance it out by trying to do as much good as possible.
"See you can live your life in control and be nice
But even that will not promise you a happy life
You may think yourself in general to be a nice guy
But I'm telling you now - that right there is a lie
Even the nicest of guys has some nasty within them
You don't have to be backlit to be the villain
Whether it be greed, lust, or just plain vindictiveness
There's a level of malevolence inside all of us"
- S. Pip
It was nice to see some of my friends actually shared it.
As near as I can tell, the lady thinks Jesus is an ideal she tries to emulate, and that other religions have the same type of ideal figures.
I'm down with that. In my opinion, every major religious figure is a series of tall tales built around someone who was fed up with the status quo, and wanted to change it.
The whole idea of sin is lost on people who want to use it to grovel in front of a higher power.
We all make mistakes, and have really good reasons for justifying them. The sin idea reminds us that even with the best intentions, we can hurt other people, and should balance it out by trying to do as much good as possible.
"See you can live your life in control and be nice
But even that will not promise you a happy life
You may think yourself in general to be a nice guy
But I'm telling you now - that right there is a lie
Even the nicest of guys has some nasty within them
You don't have to be backlit to be the villain
Whether it be greed, lust, or just plain vindictiveness
There's a level of malevolence inside all of us"
- S. Pip
