Posted on 05/24/2005 1:42:28 PM PDT by CHARLITE
That is very true. Don't stand on one leg and play with yourself. You're liable to hurt yourself. ;)
um, ah, huh?
I was a personal trainer for 6 years. I set people up on diets and programs. I told people to eat whatever heck they wanted, just in balance and small portions.
Although people want a perfect diet or a perfect program, reality and common sense dictates that it is usually impossible to maintain perfection, which leads to failure. Long term success depends on doing little things right, over and over. for an extended period of time.
Anyone who claims purity in anything is usually full of garbage, whether it be morally or whatever.
yes: the "womyn's lib MOVEMENT" is nothing but destructive folly.
otoh - true meritocracy is always just.
It has seemed thus to my eye as well.
placemarker
Similar to perfection? Doing something correctly, over and over for an extended period of time.
Doing something correctly does not mean perfectly. The two are not the same. For example:
Someone who drinks two cans of regular soda a day will put on about 20 extra pounds of fat.
Someone who decides to lose weight and substitute the soda with water or sugarless tea or something, over time, will lose a lot of fat. It does not happen overnight, but that little step, nothing draconian or perfect, leads to long term results. However, if I advocated the person run 10 miles a day, eat wheatgrass all day, and starve himself, I would set the person up for a disaster, not weight loss.
ooo-ooo-ooo!
ovation!
remind me not to earn your contempt!
I second that.
Again. Morality, your view of right and wrong is going to dictate your logic.
Hitler thought what he was doing was logical.
Our Arguements aren't irrational, it's just on a different level.
I am indifferent to the basis of your arguments.
If that basis leads you to conclude that 1 + 1 does NOT = 2, your arguments are ILLOGICAL, not "moral"
Show me where my arguements are illogical. You accuse me of being illogical, show me the logic in that statement.
I believe in absolutes. Truth is truth, it applies to all people, to all things in all places. You cannot distort the truth, it will no longer be truth.
Truth is in the standards that God gave us. a logical statement 1+1=2 = True, which equals truth. therefore it is logical, moraly it is right.
Porn is wrong. it is illogical for the Christian to devulge in it and still want to be called a Christian. It is an immoral act
No sir, you may be indifferent to the basis of my statements. But my base is in the believe in God and the Bible. I am not a thumper, nor do I force conversions, but I am strong in my faith and belief.
"I believe in absolutes"
all or nothing.
QED
Right and Wrong...
this is getting nowhere.
what evidence, within human capacity to provide, would suffice to earn your admission to having made a factually erroneous all-or-nothing statement as the basis for one of your varied arguments?
more to the point: "believing in absolutes is not "all or nothing"
incorrect. It is binary morality. Zeros and Ones. or, as you put it: Right and Wrong, Truth or Lies.
That's strict binary. That's the very essence of all or nothing.
Nothing intrinsically wrong with it... unless it is factually erroneous (eg: neglects to notice the very real existence of values between 0 and 1)... which your noises concerning abstainance vs. addiction (ignoring moderation)certainly does.
With out absolutes, we wouldn't die, we would...uh just go zombie like...need more proof? with out absolutes, 1+1 =11 , I mean what proof do you need? If 1+1 didn't equal 2, an absolute, would you take the whole equation or not? " All or Nothing"
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