This question has been asked by all sides. Cats or dog? Cat lovers would tell you that dogs are slaves to their masters whilst dog lovers will tell you, no they are lovingly loyal whilst cats are aloof and selfish.
Which do you prefer cats or dogs? Or perhaps like me you like both? Chris, in another thread mentioned the old Science vs Faith thing agian. Like cats and dogs I see merit and value in both of them. Science is good, it lets us understand the world around us, the universe, our place in it, how it all works. However I belive there are questions that science simply cannot answer, and so I turn to religious faith. Religion is also good, it lets us understand our place in the world, it answers the all important why question. Now I'm sure that perhaps one or two of you may be thinking, no Lee you are wrong there are no questions that science cannot one day answer, well isn't that an article of faith in itself I wonder? Here's my mantra again 'We are all differant, the whole world over'. These differances are becoming increaseingly important to me, along with what I have termed 'The right to be', now they seem to be at the core of a slowley(ahhh ever-so-slowly) emerging philosophy of mine. Based on the golden rule which I shall render here as 'treat others as you would wish to be treated', I think that many people would agree with such a tenant conciously or not? Taking that further then we can see that a logical extention of the golden rule is 'I will live my life as I see fit, within the confines of the law of the land'. Again I don't think many would like to disagree with such a thought? Taking that further still we can get 'I will suffer no attempt by others to enforce me to lead a life not in keeping with the life I wish to lead'. This then must lead us to the conclusion that if I wish to live by these tenants then I must extend the same to everybody else, the golden rule ensures this. This in a nutshell is 'the right to be'. Now bearing that in mind we can get a glimpse into why differances are so important to me. Yes I can point at somebody and say well I don't agree with your morality, but as long as it does not lead you into brakeing the law of the land, then I can do nothing to stop you leading the kind of life you wish to, nor should I attempt to do so. These differances then become important because we need to be able to live next to each other, I need to understand how you are differant to me, so that I do not mistakingly put upon you 'intent' or 'motive' that is just not there, thus causeing misunderstanding and illwill. Our differances matter so that we can learn to live side by side with the minimun amount of conflict. So cats or dogs, shit man why not both? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
