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I have to agree with Gary.
Hot sauce should enhance flavour of the food it's with, not just blow it away.
Good compromise, Brett.
They should put you in charge of this community!
I've seen more religion-takeover than politics-takeover, but I agree it's irksome when thread after thread gets hijacked away from 'manliness' for someone's personal agenda.
Herb, the evidence you mention is 2000 year old, second-hand (at best) testament. Balance that against many more than 12 personal modern day accounts of encounters with extra-terrestrials, and that would make for slightly less evidence for God tha...
Totally agree with you there Paul.
The self's opinion on any subject matter makes nailing down these terms to concrete absolutes nearly impossible. What I view as good, may be bad to some.
My mother is a saint, in my opinion. I'm sure there are ...
Moths, especially moths flying around my head. Actually, pretty much any critter flying near my ears. I had a dream when I was a boy where a wasp crawled in my ear and stung me. The ear started to swell with the wasp trapped inside, getting more f...
I understand that bringing God into the equation violates the "do not reference any divine arbitration" part of your initial topic, so I don't expect my post to be the deciding factor in your discussion. I was just trying to clarify an often misun...
The subjectiveness there being that I know my mother to be good, and this man's actions tell me he is evil.
I have learned that almost everyone really believes they are doing the right thing, and almost everyone tries to be a good person. But I a...
100% agree.
The other thing I've heard before is that Christian rock is bad because music like that doesn't honor God, but apparently if you take God out of it, secular rock doesn't offend Him at all. What?!? If loud, guitar driven music with Chr...
A smaller comparison to the atom bomb: rock and roll. A certain Christian rock band was coming to my area. I told the pastor of the church I was attending about it. No, rock and roll is of the devil and is "worldly". Sorry, Rev. Dude, it's a tool....
Justification is the last bastion of a hopeless man. If you need to justify your actions, in anyway, then that action is more than likely wrong, maybe even evil.
Evil-is doing things that are wrong,
But what defines 'wrong'? It seems to me that those terms, right or wrong, are really the subjective things in this mix. Good and evil must be defined as absolutes. I say they must be simply because there can ...
No need for apologies firstly.
Second, I agree with your idea that an item itself cannot be defined as good or evil.
Atom bomb? Nope, neither good nor evil, just is. Can it be applied to evil uses? Of course. Can it be applied to good uses? Equa...
I'm sorry Robert, but that is a little narrow minded of a definition to use to define something with such a broad sense. I'll use your example of porn. Back a hundred years ago, porn was defined by that very same line. Picture our magazines or TV ...
The way I view it is actually pretty simple. Whether or not one believes in any deity, humanity as a whole is moving forward to something more complex than we were yesterday. Given this, anything one can do to impede this forward progress, is evil...
Damn me and me foolish typos! Any my editing window is long gone!
Any act which does not benefit the instigator and has the detriment of others as its primary motivation is an evil act.
Any act which does not benefit the instigator and which has...
Well, I totally disagree.
OK, now that that's over with --!
Aside from the typo (you typed "evil" when you meant "good" in your second principle!), I could come close to agreeing with these principles, though of course there are other acts not c...
When you say "God" I assume your referring to the one in the Holy Bible, rather than the God of Islam or other religions.
I believe that when you begin summoning God, the problem is which one? Every religion and sect adamantly states that there's...
Ok, the core of a lot of the suggestions has been to do with self-interest. Personally I think that's the key to objectively defining good and evil, but not in the way most people who've mentioned it have been suggesting. In fact, I suggest using ...
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