VisualBrian
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Agreed. Thanks. I'll leave it alone now.
Everyone here has had lots of time to love themselves
- Thread starter Mr. Ed
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Mr. Ed
Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
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@VisualBrian you demonstrated your love to me by helping me overcome an area I was stuck at, and by token I thank you.
But Mr. Ed might find meaning; worth a try.
Mr. Ed
Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
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- Central NY
Basically I dismissed the notion of god altogether and applied for the position myself.
David777
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As I replied earlier, the way the OP posed the thread and how he himself described his answer had many of us wondering what he was really trying to say. Treating ourselves well to make oneself happy, content, is not in itself about loving oneself as a love action the way we usually talk about love but rather creature needs as say breathing.
We may treat ourselves to a pizza or take a hot shower etc but doing so is not about love in such a sense but rather the creature seeking physical pleasantness.
@Pepper related to love oneself is biblical and that gave me a different way to look at this. What we and all life enjoying creatures do is greatly value existence while avoiding damage, pain, death, non existence. Replacing "love" with "value, having concern for, protecting the well-being, existence and safety of," is love of life versus non-existence eternal death.
So for we and other creatures big and small, simple to complex, mosquito to whale, have as a prime behavior, a prime inner drive to stay alive, healthally, in ways our species evolved to be, without pain or unpleasantness, enjoying existence its feelings and inner mind states as alive entities.
This is totally different from that of plants or say a rock because within all Earth animal life flesh are oscillating electromagnetic standing wave brainwave fields, our true essence of life that with greatest purpose and actions all life protects.
We may treat ourselves to a pizza or take a hot shower etc but doing so is not about love in such a sense but rather the creature seeking physical pleasantness.
@Pepper related to love oneself is biblical and that gave me a different way to look at this. What we and all life enjoying creatures do is greatly value existence while avoiding damage, pain, death, non existence. Replacing "love" with "value, having concern for, protecting the well-being, existence and safety of," is love of life versus non-existence eternal death.
So for we and other creatures big and small, simple to complex, mosquito to whale, have as a prime behavior, a prime inner drive to stay alive, healthally, in ways our species evolved to be, without pain or unpleasantness, enjoying existence its feelings and inner mind states as alive entities.
This is totally different from that of plants or say a rock because within all Earth animal life flesh are oscillating electromagnetic standing wave brainwave fields, our true essence of life that with greatest purpose and actions all life protects.
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VaughanJB
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Of course. I guess the point I would make is, I'm often surprised when religious people think simply quoting the Bible, or accepting a biblical tenet, is an automatic win, or plus. Whereas, for (roughly) 50%, it's just words.
I am happy for people to have a belief, even if I won't ever truly understand it. But even in the US, an assumption of a Christian belief leaves 40% out in the cold.