Ummm no?
On 9 Sep, 17:00, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote:
> As in "It's raining cats and dogs", you mean?
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> On 9 Sep., 16:26, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > This question has been asked by all sides. Cats or dog?
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> > 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.
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> > Which do you prefer cats or dogs? Or perhaps like me you like both?
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> > Chris, in another thread mentioned the old Science vs Faith thing
> > agian.
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> > Like cats and dogs I see merit and value in both of them.
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> > 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.
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> > Religion is also good, it lets us understand our place in the world,
> > it answers the all important why question.
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> > 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?
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> > Here's my mantra again 'We are all differant, the whole world over'.
> > T
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> hese differances are becoming inceaseingly iimportant to m, along> wit
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> th what I have termed 'The right to be', now they seem to be at the
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> > core of a slowley(ahhh ever-so-slowly) erging ghilolosophy of mine.
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> > 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?
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> > 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?
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> > 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.
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> > This in a nutshell is 'the right to be'.
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> > 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.
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> > These differances then become important because we need to bable to
> > l
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> 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
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> the minimun amount of conflict.
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