Depends on whether you see it as a proverb or an instruction.

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Depends on whether you see it as a proverb or an instruction.

Tom Brosz — 10/16/2003 1:34:22 AM (archived)

The difference between a suggestion and a commandment explains a lot of the differing worldview between those who aren't religious and those who are.

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Does anyone here have basic principles? - Buster - 10/13/2003 1:45:50 PM
- Libertarian principles - Tom Brosz - 10/24/2003 5:12:28 PM
  - Doncha just hate it - Tony - 10/24/2003 9:25:37 PM
    - Not really surprised... - Tom Brosz - 10/25/2003 1:13:18 AM
      - Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid! - Mary Anne - 10/25/2003 1:32:56 AM
        
        re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid! (n/t) - koako - 11/18/2003 6:05:26 PM
        
        re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid! (n/t) - koako - 11/18/2003 6:05:11 PM
        
        re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid! (n/t) - koako - 11/18/2003 6:04:56 PM
        
        re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid! (n/t) - koako - 11/18/2003 6:04:41 PM
        
        re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid! (n/t) - koako - 11/18/2003 6:04:26 PM
        
        re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid! (n/t) - koako - 11/18/2003 6:03:50 PM
        
        re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid! (n/t) - koako - 11/18/2003 6:03:32 PM
        
        re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid! (n/t) - koako - 11/18/2003 6:03:17 PM
        
        They're giving it away in Jonestown, look for The People's Temple - SteveS - 11/19/2003 2:07:57 AM
        
        OK? I LIKE KOOL-AID!! its not kool to have aids o ya and have you every thoaght a purple omlete to sing?? - Rockie Munky - 11/14/2003 7:02:44 PM
- Lot's of argueing, few principles. - Buster - 10/20/2003 10:29:58 PM
  - re: Lot's of argueing, few principles. - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/23/2003 4:26:24 AM
    - two wrongs don't make a right - Buster - 10/23/2003 7:42:22 PM
      - You didn't read closely enough... - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/23/2003 9:52:20 PM
        
        course I didn't read closely - Buster - 10/23/2003 9:58:22 PM
        
        I have stock in Bristol-Meyer... - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/23/2003 10:07:06 PM
      - Robert's feedback - Mary Anne - 10/23/2003 9:07:12 PM
        
        Wrong feedback - Buster - 10/23/2003 9:56:02 PM
  - Geez, I would have thought mine were obvious... - Tom Brosz - 10/21/2003 12:11:20 AM
    - Sorry generic labels don't cut it - Buster - 10/21/2003 12:54:22 AM
      - Read Ayn Rand, then. Why do I need to bust my butt repeating it all? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/21/2003 3:59:24 AM
        
        Read 2 Ayn Rand books once a long time ago. All I strongly remember was they both sucked - Buster - 10/21/2003 4:16:23 AM
        
        Cliff's Notes version: - Tom Brosz - 10/21/2003 7:57:23 AM
        
        Good approach - bad books - Buster - 10/21/2003 10:06:37 PM
        
        re: Good approach - bad books - Luis F** - 12/23/2003 9:18:15 PM
        
        re: Good approach - bad books - Luis F** - 12/23/2003 8:56:54 PM
        
        re: Good approach - bad books - Tom Brosz - 10/21/2003 10:40:31 PM
- Good Job. n/t (n/t) - Todd - 10/20/2003 1:24:22 AM
- Do you? What are they? - Mary Anne - 10/17/2003 3:24:59 AM
  - I'm trying to get people to think for a change - Buster Socrates - 10/17/2003 1:06:43 PM
    - -grin- Fair enough! - Mary Anne - 10/17/2003 1:10:26 PM
      - what are you waiting for? - Buster - 10/21/2003 1:05:40 AM
        
        Still thinking about the question. - Mary Anne - 10/21/2003 1:21:43 PM
        
        pretty please no poems - Buster - 10/21/2003 10:58:07 PM
        
        re: pretty please no poems - Mana'olana - 12/13/2003 7:31:24 AM
        
        LOL -- aw, why not? - Mary Anne - 10/21/2003 11:45:32 PM
        
        Not bad. - Tom Brosz - 10/22/2003 12:05:38 AM
        
        You're both on the left... - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/21/2003 1:14:57 AM
        
        Whoosh right over my head - Buster - 10/21/2003 1:30:01 AM
        
        re: Whoosh right over my head - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/21/2003 2:23:03 AM
        
        To clarify... - Fox - 10/23/2003 2:26:20 PM
        
        re: To clarify... - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/25/2003 4:50:56 AM
        
        Mary Anne's belief to the contrary - Mary Anne - 10/26/2003 2:33:40 PM
        
        If we appear to be in boxes, Tech, it could be that boxes are all you have to put us in. - Mary Anne - 10/21/2003 11:27:09 PM
        
        I see the problem - Buster - 10/21/2003 4:09:38 AM
- Zen and the art of principled behavior. - Zen Man - 10/16/2003 4:23:49 AM
  - Hardly Zen - Buster - 10/20/2003 10:46:53 PM
- The inviolate sanctity of individual human beings (n/t) - Fox - 10/16/2003 2:38:31 AM
  - Unless they get in the way of your career. Then Abort them... (n/t) - Anne Leftleaner - 10/21/2003 3:48:01 PM
  - Except for their wallets (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/17/2003 1:38:47 AM
    - "Farnham's Freehold" is fiction, Tom - Fox - 10/17/2003 5:09:59 PM
      - Fiction and facts - Tom Brosz - 10/17/2003 6:04:48 PM
        
        re: Fiction and facts - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/18/2003 10:40:27 PM
    - See "mush-headed partisan" remark, at beginning of thread. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 10/17/2003 3:26:48 AM
      - Doesn't make it any less true - Tom Brosz - 10/17/2003 7:04:35 AM
        
        You'd better hand in your Libertarian badge ;-) (n/t) - Tony - 10/17/2003 3:44:32 PM
        
        Do you use the roads? - Mary Anne - 10/17/2003 12:21:15 PM
        
        Yes, and I pay for it with gas taxes, not the income tax. - Tom Brosz - 10/17/2003 5:22:23 PM
        
        Guess again. - Mary Anne - 10/17/2003 6:37:12 PM
        
        re: Good point on the highways - Tom Brosz - 10/17/2003 11:23:41 PM
        
        I love it when the heavy-hitters step up to the plate - McFly - 10/17/2003 11:23:09 PM
        
        Me too! - Tom Brosz - 10/17/2003 11:27:07 PM
  - the do nothing principle - Buster - 10/16/2003 1:45:17 PM
    - Sophistry will get you nowhere - Fox - 10/16/2003 10:58:16 PM
      - Don't think so - Buster - 10/20/2003 10:41:00 PM
        
        To kill a Mockingbird, dude. (n/t) - Cap'n Tar - 11/24/2003 2:05:41 PM
        
        re: Don't think so - Fox - 10/21/2003 4:37:37 AM
        
        Good Answers And Point - Moving Ahead of Raoul - Buster - 10/21/2003 10:19:18 PM
        
        More - Fox - 10/24/2003 12:56:01 AM
- If you want a utopia, elect me as your Imperious Leader. (n/t) - Lee - 10/14/2003 3:24:39 AM
- re: A basic principle - Raoul - 10/13/2003 10:25:17 PM
  - Not good either - Buster - 10/14/2003 12:09:52 PM
    - re: Sorry - Raoul - 10/14/2003 10:33:12 PM
      - Sorry missed the twist on the classic - Buster - 10/16/2003 1:54:57 PM
      - re: "Fourth, if we accept the proverb, no need for a religion to tell us more." - alcaray - 10/15/2003 5:40:49 PM
        
        Depends on whether you see it as a proverb or an instruction. - Tom Brosz - 10/16/2003 1:34:22 AM
        
        re: "Fourth, if we accept the proverb, no need for a religion to tell us more." - Raoul - 10/15/2003 11:45:19 PM
      - re: Not bad, Skywatcher . . . - D. Spires - 10/15/2003 1:32:43 AM
        
        re: Not bad, Skywatcher . . . - Raoul - 10/15/2003 10:26:35 AM
        
        re: "Either you are with US, or you are against US" . . . - D. Spires - 10/15/2003 10:32:22 PM
        
        Sometimes you've got to push people's buttons to get them to take action. - Scott Evil - 10/15/2003 2:45:52 PM
        
        re: Black and white - Raoul - 10/15/2003 3:49:30 PM
        
        re: Black and white - Tom Brosz - 10/15/2003 4:40:02 PM
- Care to be more specific? - FrankC - 10/13/2003 10:20:40 PM
  - Let me rephrase - Buster - 10/14/2003 12:12:10 PM
- My principle after 9/11/2001 - Scott Evil - 10/13/2003 5:25:24 PM
  - Case in point - Buster - 10/13/2003 8:58:31 PM
  - I see where you're comming from. - et - 10/13/2003 7:06:18 PM
    - Well gee et - FrankC - 10/13/2003 10:25:46 PM
      - Yep, I understood that from the get-go. (n/t) - et - 10/14/2003 4:51:28 PM
      - Meant nto say left and right (n/t) - FrankC - 10/13/2003 10:30:00 PM
    - I care. - Scott Evil - 10/13/2003 9:04:02 PM
      - I can tell, just don't bleed all over the place. (n/t) - et - 10/14/2003 4:52:41 PM
- I think quite a few, actually, on both sides. Just my opinion. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/13/2003 5:18:28 PM
  - Look out, Tom -- the self-appointed philosophy police are after you . . . (n/t) - D. Spires - 10/16/2003 11:21:58 PM
    - You know what's interesting... - Tom Brosz - 10/17/2003 6:34:27 PM
      - No... - Mary Anne - 10/17/2003 6:48:49 PM
        
        It isn't about the money. - Tom Brosz - 10/19/2003 5:52:32 AM
        
        Love Canal - Mary Anne - 10/19/2003 10:25:34 PM
        
        project - tamara jones - 12/10/2003 7:07:22 PM
        
        re: Love Canal - Larry J - 10/20/2003 1:22:14 AM
        
        The Jungle - Mary Anne - 10/20/2003 2:32:16 AM
        
        re: The Jungle - Tom Brosz - 10/20/2003 7:05:40 AM
        
        Ignore the one below: this is the whole post. (HTML lesson: never use the "greater than" sign to mean "greater than"...) - Mary Anne - 10/20/2003 12:43:46 PM
        
        Involvement - Tom Brosz - 10/20/2003 4:32:55 PM
        
        What I was promoting - Mary Anne - 10/22/2003 12:12:14 AM
        
        re: What I was promoting - Tom Brosz - 10/22/2003 4:28:25 AM
        
        environmentalists = socialist buttmonkeys - Mary Anne - 10/20/2003 12:40:04 PM
        
        Sure you want your kids and students reading your recent titles? ;-) (n/t) - Buster - 10/21/2003 12:58:24 AM
        
        My kids are all old enough, and the ones I teach... - Mary Anne - 10/22/2003 12:36:06 AM
    - They would be related to the self-appointed patriotism police... (n/t) - Mary Anne - 10/17/2003 5:39:35 PM
  - just aren't willing to admit what they are eh? (n/t) - Buster - 10/16/2003 1:41:51 PM

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