Post by afterwards on Sept 7, 2007 15:38:07 GMT -5
I'm only fifteen years old, agnostic, and essentially politically apathetic, so I suppose my I don't quite have a fully-formed set of beliefs-- I've barely even seen the world or the people that inhabit it.
I'm constantly trying to learn about other peoples' views on life, and I'm always happy to share my stilted views.
I'm not going to write up a dissertation or an essay on morality or mortality or modality or morbidity. I just want to show three big things I've learned, and hear what you have to say.
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1. Just because something is private doesn't mean it won't affect someone.
I know, sounds basic, simple, but it's easy to forget. The whole "what he/she/they don't know won't hurt 'em" way of life is a load of crap. Most of America's foreign policy has been altered or acted upon or created by a small group of people or a single person, my favorite example being Henry Kissinger's secret trip to China under the Nixon administration. For all intents and purposes, it was a private matter, by no means was it an isolated or contained matter.
2. Religion always has been and always will be institutionalized.
It may be in a small way, like your higher-ups being devout in their religion to the degree at which they overlook an atheist or agnostic employee for a promotion, or in a big way, that causes us to go to war against another culture or religion to destabilize it, but institutionalized religion is a universal and indefatigable concept.
3. Leisure is a reward brought on by hard work, not the antithesis of hard work.
Hard work leads to the ability to relax for a bit. Relaxation does not cancel out the necessity for or responsibility of hard work.
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I know my "rules" aren't absolute, but I have done my best to live by them and my life's been pretty good insofar.
I'm constantly trying to learn about other peoples' views on life, and I'm always happy to share my stilted views.
I'm not going to write up a dissertation or an essay on morality or mortality or modality or morbidity. I just want to show three big things I've learned, and hear what you have to say.
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1. Just because something is private doesn't mean it won't affect someone.
I know, sounds basic, simple, but it's easy to forget. The whole "what he/she/they don't know won't hurt 'em" way of life is a load of crap. Most of America's foreign policy has been altered or acted upon or created by a small group of people or a single person, my favorite example being Henry Kissinger's secret trip to China under the Nixon administration. For all intents and purposes, it was a private matter, by no means was it an isolated or contained matter.
2. Religion always has been and always will be institutionalized.
It may be in a small way, like your higher-ups being devout in their religion to the degree at which they overlook an atheist or agnostic employee for a promotion, or in a big way, that causes us to go to war against another culture or religion to destabilize it, but institutionalized religion is a universal and indefatigable concept.
3. Leisure is a reward brought on by hard work, not the antithesis of hard work.
Hard work leads to the ability to relax for a bit. Relaxation does not cancel out the necessity for or responsibility of hard work.
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I know my "rules" aren't absolute, but I have done my best to live by them and my life's been pretty good insofar.