I am not willing to die for socialism.//From an anthropological point of view, sexual customs and mating are separate issues which have unfortunately been jumbled and marketed.
On Jan 23, 6:18 am, andrew vecsey <[email protected]> wrote: > We are more than just individuals because alone by ourselves we can not > survive at all. First, we need a mate to love, be loved by and to mate > with. Then we need a family to support and to keep going. Our family needs > a neighborhood to work in. Our neighborhood needs a society and societies > need nations to compete and grow. Mankind needs nature for nurture and > nature needs a healthy planet. We individually can not have a purposeful > life unless we have all of those components. Self sacrifice is ensuring > that those components are maintained. It is easy for me to imagine myself > dying for my children. It is also easy to imagine myself dying in order to > save mankind. I have trouble seeing myself dying for my neighbor or my > country, but I do admit that I am thankful that there are people who are > ready to do just that. So I do think that morality and patriotism do make > sense to ensure survival. > > > > On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 12:13:24 PM UTC+1, RP Singh wrote: > > > If survival were the purpose for an individual , morality and > > patriotism would make no sense. In my opinion man is born without a > > god-given purpose , and it is society which builds , develops and > > inculcates a purpose in the individual. That would explain the > > self-sacrificing deeds of great valor exhibited by many people. > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:48 PM, rigs <[email protected] <javascript:>> > > wrote: > > > We do not always know what impact lives have upon one another but I > > > stand by my opinion that our primary purpose is to live/survive. As > > > you know, Jesus made use of sinners- Romans fell on their swords in > > > shame- early Christians earned sainthood- Islam distorts martyrdom as > > > a war tactic. > > > > On Jan 21, 10:25 am, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> " To live. " As everyone , saint and sinner , lives that makes life > > >> purposeless at least spiritually. If mere existing is the purpose then > > >> howsoever you live is important and there is no use for martyrdom. > > > >> On Monday, January 21, 2013 9:00:28 PM UTC+5:30, rigs wrote: > > > >> > To live. How do we know the condition of their souls? Death teaches > > >> > the rest of us that life is precious and brief. > > > >> > On Jan 21, 8:03 am, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > What you are saying , Andrew , is the spiritual lesson we take from > > >> > > the experience of others , but what is the spiritual purpose for > > that > > >> > > child or for the old man ? > > > >> > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:11 PM, andrew vecsey < > > [email protected]> > > >> > wrote: > > >> > > > In suppose the spiritual purpose for the old man is to experience > > the > > >> > > > experience and to give the opportunity for others to react to > > this > > >> > > > experience. The spiritual purpose of the 1 year old is to > > experience a > > >> > very > > >> > > > short life. The purpose of any life is to experience, learn and > > teach. > > >> > From > > >> > > > the old man we can learn to be thankful of our own lives and > > learn how > > >> > to > > >> > > > live it right to try to avoid having a stroke. From the 1 year > > old we > > >> > cam > > >> > > > learn to be sympathetic and to ask questions that make us ponder > > about > > >> > the > > >> > > > purpose of it all. > > > >> > > > On Monday, January 21, 2013 1:31:34 PM UTC+1, RP Singh wrote: > > > >> > > >> An old man suffers a stroke and becomes a vegetable for the rest > > of > > >> > his > > >> > > >> life , a one year old child becomes sick and dies. What is the > > >> > purpose , the > > >> > > >> spiritual purpose for the old man or the child ? > > > >> > > > --- Hide quoted text - > > > >> > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > >> - Show quoted text - > > > > --- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --
