Laurasaurus Ingraham
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core beliefs don't 'evolve', they are a foundation on which one views the world. If your foundation is always shifting, you can't build much of anything on them.
"As much as I respect what he's doing, really the economy is something he should focus on more than the brackets. "
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, after Obama snubbed Duke in his Final Four picks.
The U.S. economy WAS on fire under Bush, for 6 years. Until the Democrats took control of Congress. It's been all down hill since then.
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citizen - thanks for providing the troll humor you've become famous for, but it's really not needed here.
You don't even know what a fascist is, and yet you accuse me of being one. A classic, standard Left wing charge.
Nothing citizen says is true. He's become a troll, and deserves to be sent to troll country.
"As much as I respect what he's doing, really the economy is something he should focus on more than the brackets. "
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, after Obama snubbed Duke in his Final Four picks.
The U.S. economy WAS on fire under Bush, for 6 years. Until the Democrats took control of Congress. It's been all down hill since then.
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Actually I find it all interesting when the knives come out cause you get to see what REALLY lurks behind the polite masks each of us use to get along in society.
Cause, see, once I know where all the gears and levers are, it becomes easier to pull them.
And yes, admittedly on occasion I'll use subtle wording and phrasing to start pulling them till smoke is rolling outta someones ears - if they're smart, they LEARN from that, and if they don't, well, it just provides me with that much amusement, doesn't it ?
I like discussing things, especially with folk who have other points of view, cause the more windows you view a subject through, the clearer the picture is - but when someone starts smearing mud on the windows cause you WANT to distort the picture for nefarious reasons...
That's when the claws come out, and like any other form of violence, I tend to do a thorough job of it when it comes to cases.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Another thing AU, when you post anywhere else on FFF, you are quite easy to get along with, because it's you talking. When you post here, more often that not we're being treated to a regurgitation of Rush, you're barely there at all, except in the form of a brainless tape recorder.
The laughing Chrisisall
The same objective, independent, and skeptical person you see in other threads is the same guy who post here. Thanks for the compliments, and I'd suggest you might want to re-examine why what I say here makes you react the way you do. Might not be ME that's the problem.
"As much as I respect what he's doing, really the economy is something he should focus on more than the brackets. "
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, after Obama snubbed Duke in his Final Four picks.
The U.S. economy WAS on fire under Bush, for 6 years. Until the Democrats took control of Congress. It's been all down hill since then.
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Quote:It was his tagline for a while, and went something like: Once you're willing to do anything for your cause, that's when you've become an extremist.
Didn't catch where Finn's answer is, but I'd like to give it a read.
Quote:I think you're confusing "core beliefs" with "core ethics". An ethic is how you distinguish right from wrong. It is ONE kind of belief. A "belief" is a more general category. It could about Santa Claus or Jesus, or your a priori assumptions, or your core ethics. I have a core ethic, and my core ethic is: Belief is bad. It keeps people from questioning themselves and others. It keeps people from seeing a bigger picture than they saw yesterday.
core beliefs don't 'evolve', they are a foundation on which one views the world. If your foundation is always shifting, you can't build much of anything on them.
So far, all I see is a core belief that Muslims are bad. If that's a mis-read: what IS (ARE) your core belief(s)?
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Rapo, the floor is yours:
"My core beliefs are.... "
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Muslims who blow up monuments of Buddha , saw heads off of non believers, strap bombs to the mentally challenged so as to murder or praise the deaths of space shuttle crews who burn up in re-entry are bad.
Oh, but those aren't 'real' Muslims.
Right.
And Priest aren't 'real' Christians.
See how it can be played?
"As much as I respect what he's doing, really the economy is something he should focus on more than the brackets. "
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, after Obama snubbed Duke in his Final Four picks.
The U.S. economy WAS on fire under Bush, for 6 years. Until the Democrats took control of Congress. It's been all down hill since then.
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Muslims who do those things are bad. Priests who molest children are bad. But that's not a "core belief.
You've said many times you have unwavering core beliefs. If you've had them for so many years, you SHOULD be able to express them as an overarching assumption or direction, not as a specific reaction to specific events.
For example, Finn would say "Human life is sacred". I would say "My beginning assumption is that the universe is real and we are a part of it." So, what are YOUR core beliefs?
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Hello,
My core beliefs AND ethics have changed over time. Things I once considered permissable in my youth, I now consider unpermissable. Things I once embraced without a second thought, I now have grave doubts or even disbelief towards.
The analogy of 'you can't build anything on a shifting foundation' is a flawed one. Life isn't one original foundation of beliefs and principles upon which all else is laid.
Life is a series of foundations and the actions built upon them. As experience is acquired, new foundations are laid, new actions built up. Life is not one vast building. Life is a City full of the buildings you've made. The idea of a stagnant foundation is, to me, madness. It implies an inability to achieve growth at the most important levels.
My own analogy would be thus. Egypt has several pyramids. The earlier ones were primitive step-designs and in some cases poorly built, collapsing in on themselves. New foundations were laid. New pyramids built. The most basic assumptions about pyramid building evolved. (So don't let anyone tell you that Aliens built the things, unless the Aliens were morons who screwed up the first couple before they got it right.)
Yes, even foundations evolve. God help you if they don't. You can't build forever on a single, unchanging foundation. At some points in your life, it is highly desirable to re-examine yourself from the bottom up, to critically analyze even your most basic and sacred beliefs and assumptions, and make the necessary changes. Then you can create a new building of improved actions on a better foundation. And then another. Until the day you die.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Good point Anthony.
IMHO the most difficult challenge is to RECOGNIZE your core beliefs. The deeper and more fundamental the belief, the harder it is to see... simply because it IS part of your world view.
In my opinion that a person who reveals something about me to myself... something I didn't know and would never have suspected... deserves my deepest thanks.
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