camelCase
The Case of the Mysterious Camel.
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I believe in being nice to others..
Sometimes..
Sometimes..
I didn't say I was a GOOD Mormon, and I don't typically classify myself as one, however I do find it extremely annoying when people try to bash on it and have no idea what they're talking about.I'm sure there will be plenty of time for chuckles once we've made it to Greenland.
I took you for someone without a belief in a higher power. Mormonism just never made much sense to me; any religion that requires its members to 'donate' their money seems more like a well-planned scam. Especially when it's founder was convicted and fined for convincing others of his seer-stone capabilities at their expense. I don't see how it's much more valid than Scientology, except that people should certainly know better by this day and age to believe something written by a science-fiction writer as fact.
Nyph said:I disagree. I do not believe in morals, or any rules on how to live.
How enlightened your world must be. We are just animals, and almost always morals correspond to intraspecies instincts. e.g. we don't kill eachother because it goes against instinct. Similar thing with empathy and helping other people out. How would you define sad anyhow, as for the most part I am completely happy and content with how my life is going.I've figured that out before now, and already have an extremely low opinion of you, so you continue living your life in a sad and short existence as you see fit, while better people spend their lives committed to making the world a better place for everyone else to live in.
If it's instinctual, then why go against it? Why not define those as rules to live by? What would be the benefit not to, beyond a sense of self-preservation (worrying only about yourself and disregarding others, having only your own problems to contend with without anyone elses' burdens to share)? I feel like you may not have thought this statement through, when it comes down to it.How enlightened your world must be. We are just animals, and almost always morals correspond to intraspecies instincts. e.g. we don't kill eachother because it goes against instinct. Similar thing with empathy and helping other people out.
Because you automatically live by instinct. I am not advocating going against it, as you will fail nearly always.If it's instinctual, then why go against it? Why not define those as rules to live by?
Natural selection selects species, not merely individuals.What would be the benefit not to, beyond a sense of self-preservation (worrying only about yourself and disregarding others, having only your own problems to contend with without anyone elses' burdens to share)?
I have fully thought this through, it is part of my philosophy.I feel like you may not have thought this statement through, when it comes down to it.
Forgot about this part. Fewer and fewer people believe in those with prophetic powers from some otherworldly source. As the overall understanding of our world and how it works became clearer, so went peoples' willingness to believe these sorts of happenstance. Now, there are medical conditions associated with hearing voices that are much better understood than they were even well into the 20th century, let alone 200 or 2,000 years ago. Jesus was a prophet in the same way but took it further, claiming to be the son of God or the embodiment of God or whatever it is exactly. I can't say he's not; I have no proof to the contrary. But I have no proof of that being the case, either, and the latter seems like a far more likely scenario.The two aren't similar in that respect; Joseph Smith is way the fuck below Jesus. He was just a prophet; everyone is perfectly fine with there having been prophets in B.C., I fail to see why one recently is much different.
QFTAnd the DIFFERENCE between you and an animal is that you have the capacity to make decisions not driven by instinct. We kill each other all the time, so do other animals. The difference is, we don't do it because the other is threat, we do it because we want to.
So no offense meant to anyone... if my words don't ring true then let me know. If you can explain why I'm wrong, I'm always willing to change my opinion.