[91] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: LIVING WAGE SIT-IN AT HARVARD (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prez H. Cannady)
Fri Apr 20 09:49:54 2001
Message-Id: <200104201349.JAA15614@melbourne-city-street.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:45:50 -0400
To: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
From: "Prez H. Cannady" <revprez@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <200104201250.IAA12818@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
At 08:50 AM 4/20/01 , Christopher D. Beland wrote
>
>Of course, given the wide diversity of things (good, bad, and ugly)
>that have been done by the planet's varied and sundry monotheistic
>religions in the name of God, and given the vast differences in
>morality proscribed by these various faiths, it seems that the same
>holds true even when one does believe in a higher being.
Harder times. Used to be you killed or died for your
beliefs. Nowadays you've got mailing lists and newsgroup.
Mankind has softened.
Any ideology can be twisted to serve one's own ends. Some
require less twisting than others. Communist democratic
centralism requires only the thin veil of committee to
justify its self-destrutive idiocy.
>And there are certainly religious (though not all monotheistic) which
>espouse philosophies closer to Sourav's than Zhe's.
Oh, so Buddhists are peaceful? China's history is a long story
of Taoists, Confucists and Buddhists not getting along. There's not
a single faith out there that hasn't taken its turn at the hilt.
>Well, I'm an agnostic atheist, and I think it's a good idea. What
>goes around comes around, as they say.
Isn't believing in kharma as irrational as believing
in God?
>Besides, compassion is an
>emotion which all (non-pathological) humans are capable of and
>predisposed to feeling;
Yeah, but a good number of people can live without giving a
starving kid in Africa a second thought. Where's this conclusive
evidence that human beings individually express societal
compassion as the norm? My understanding that it the emotion
is triggered by direct contact with some tragedy.
>unfortunately, many people still see many of
>their fellow humans as enemies to fight rather than friends to love.
Why is that bad? Let's face it. Compassion kills. It
drives people to pick up hitchhikers, invite strangers into
their homes, and do all sorts of nonsensical things that
for some reason occur in the suburbs more than rural or
urban areas.
Caution saves lives. Shooting first is all over caution.
Rev Prez
* * *
Presley H. Cannady
Acting Chairman, College Republicans
CR Website <http://web.mit.edu/republicans/www/>
<Personal>-----------<"It's The Militia" - Freddie Foxx>-----
<revprez@mit.edu>-<http://web.mit.edu/revprez/www/resume.pdf>
410 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 -- (617) 225 8420
<Hip Hop>---<"The pragmatic understates it" - Rev Prez>------------>
Platinum Playaz Productions---------<Site Comin' Soon, Dunnz>
Rev Prez "The G.O.D. Rhymez v.3"-<http://www.mp3.com/revprez>
<------REMIX and the Central Region Freestylin Alliance------------>
<"You got below average intelligence and poor penmanship" - Canibus>
