tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093499986237480423.post7726782373480742496..comments2023-03-26T15:27:37.450+08:00Comments on begin again...: faith or reason?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09816650270802955615noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093499986237480423.post-38407135952628160112010-11-24T17:40:51.317+08:002010-11-24T17:40:51.317+08:00So, I'm guessing you're talking about orga...So, I'm guessing you're talking about organised religion?<br />If so, w00t.<br /><br />tot3zz.<br /><br />I can ban my kid from reading Harry Potter if I want to. It's my household, just like you can let your kid read it. <br /><br />What if you define asians being weird as something some random asian finds normal? Srsly.Mermaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773221656704339128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093499986237480423.post-70425830625974200472010-11-23T09:09:21.070+08:002010-11-23T09:09:21.070+08:00"It doesn't matter what family, religion,..."It doesn't matter what family, religion, ethnicity, community you belong to, once you belong to it, you represent it in all that you do. Which is why I can't stand Asians acting weird because it gives all of us a bad name."<br /><br />Thank you for that point. Perhaps it is a comparatively minor point. That is the one thing we humans have in common. We are representational beings. Indeed, Schopehauer wrote a text called <i>The world as will and representation</i> and he clearly meant the human world.<br /><br />If nothing else, it makes us careful about all our bonds, both the ones we choose and the ones we didn't. Though the issue seems to be being more careful about our actions (the ones we can control).<br /><br />(But surely there are actions which are just ours, that our families and communities only touch less than other actions?)<br /><br />And your overall point: that religion has done more harm than good or has the strong potential to do this, is well taken. And that impinging on people's rights is the greatest crime ... certainly it is the one most commonly committed, and it is the root of other crimes, to property and to person.<br /><br />The sense of reason is a hard-won sense. We all have the potential of losing it - and of gaining it. It is not a constant thing, any more than faith is. It is subject to continuity and to change.<br /><br />"The pure base" paragraph was very functionalist. I had a smile about the "crime rates going down".<br /><br />Vexatious and frivolous claims. They probably clog down the machinery of the legal system faster than anything else. They are like mosquitos.Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.com