Originally Posted By: Miller88
The analogy "Gay married people should be able to defend their marijuana plants with fully automatic rifles"
I'm going to take that and use it, because it fits many discussions with people who are all for freedom, but only within their defined parameters.
Learned the hard way that it's my job to help my children through life...we let my daughter do religion in Primary School, and found that the freaks were trying to emotionally scar them into following "their way" with brimstone and original sin, same as they do mutilating little boys and girls in the name of their deity.
Like Trav, I would go berserk if it were thrust at them that certain behaviours were desirable (see my earlier point, tolerance is not trying to make everyone else just like you)...do as thou shalt, just don't make me or mine do it.
Have recently come across the 10 suggestions
Quote:
1-
Know yourself.
Realize that you are a very tiny piece of the universe and yet perhaps it’s most perfect and complex element.
In your life you should try to gain enough knowledge of yourself and the universe to know who and what you are.
The quest for understanding is mans highest calling.
2-
Improve yourself
Try continually to improve yourself both intellectually, and physically.
You have only one body and one mind; do not waste them through laziness or self-abuse.
3-
Support Freedom of Thought
Respect peoples beliefs, religious or not, so long as their beliefs are not physically damaging to anyone.
Defend your right to believe what you will, but do not deny another’s right to the same freedom.
4-
Love Your Children
Know that your children are your purest motivation and finest treasure.
Give them love and knowledge and protection and teach them these suggestions.
When they are ready, let them go.
Like trees, the strongest people always stand alone.
5-
Love Your Parents
Obey your parents until you are able and willing to support yourself.
Respect them so long as they deserve respect.
Protect them and provide for them in their old age.
Remember them as they were on their best day.
6-
Respect Life
Do not physically hurt anyone except in protection of yourself or another.
Avoid killing whenever possible.
Murder is always wrong.
Cause no unnecessary pain to any animal.
7-
Respect Marriage and Other Contracts
Honor your promises.
Do not try to seduce another person into breaking a promise.
Treat your partner with honesty and respect.
8-
Work
Try to find work that makes you happy.
Try to be happy with the work you find.
Know that work done well is its own reward.
Don’t let your work dominate your life.
9-
Be Honest
Know that the truth will set you free.
When you lie and deceive you make your life a prison.
Live with honor and sleep well at night.
10-
Be Happy
Adult people are responsible for their own happiness.
Do not waste your life in a search for ultimate satisfaction.
Find pleasure in each moment you live and find satisfaction in each breath you take.
Decide to be happy.
Not interested in my taxes or insurance money "helping"...a woman that I know, and we DO accept her as a woman, paid her way to Thailand with a second job, is happy, a good neighbour, and not interested in making people bend to her choices.
I'll answer the door in a bathtowel if you interupt my bath to tell me why I should be just like you...because I can. And the worst I will do to you is ignore you, and actively avoid your presence.
TnS, having been on the other boards with you, that was a big post.
Cheers mate.
