As in "It's raining cats and dogs", you mean?
On 9 Sep., 16:26, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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'.
> T
hese differances are becoming inceaseingly iimportant to m, along
> wit
th what I have termed 'The right to be', now they seem to be at the
> core of a slowley(ahhh ever-so-slowly) erging ghilolosophy 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 th further t then we can see that a logical extention of the
> golden rule is 'will liveve 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 canoint at somomebody 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 nothingo stop y 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 bable to
> l
live next to each other, I need to understand how you are differant
to
> me, so that I do not mistakingly put upyou 'intentent' or 'motive'
> that isst not therhere, thus causeing misunderstanding and illwill.
> Our differancestter so so that we can learn tive sidside by s with
> the
the minimun amount of conflict.
>
> So cats or dogs, shit may not bot both?
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