Post by bowie on Aug 17, 2016 11:55:48 GMT 7
We , are an educated bunch, after all we can all read and write. Some of us have read a few philosophers and nodded in agreement or thought about their ideas before rejecting them or adding them to the basket of knowledge in our heads.
And we get to "free will'.
No doubt some will accept this as the basis of freedom. All being born equal after all.
Some wish that muslims would question their faith, after all christian philosophers have been doing that for centuries, western philosophers. They may have been agnostic or dared to be atheists, but their basket of ideas is greek /christian. Freedom to question, express their thoughts, publish them , a given.
Now why can't everyone be like that?
Are they so stupid?
christian missionaries no doubt saved a few from ignorance, colonial rule managed to get some of these lesser beings to think. Even turning some to bite their masters and demand equal rights for their own countries.
Others , china , although no expert, has its own history of philosophy which has shaped its thought through to the present. I might be wrong, but thailand seems to be a hybrid , accommodating some western ideas, but is essentially of a more chinese bent.
Yes it follows from my socks post.
We had that rigid uniform idea, but the classical ideals of free thinking were taught. In all we learnt to compartmentalize; that applies here, but ignore it there, it does not suit the purpose.
The insane in indonesia are not to be pitied for the conditions that they suffer, they are not our problem Then move the argument back home and do a daily mail , muslims ,look what they believe in. Look at our own insane. Shift the parameters western style.
Thai, read jonathan head, go into denial, eastern way, a train of thought i can not enter, i am far too logical.
Then i remembered that conversation i had with god before i was conceived.
god asked me if i wanted to be a man or woman or a gay of either gender, he said it was my free choice. god asked me if i wanted to be born into a jewish or christian family or country or muslim , hindu buddhist ,a confusing long list, for one not yet born. Your choice he said , i think he was he, but pre conception had no sexual identifier. god asked given my free choice of religion where i would like to live in the world he even asked me if i wanted to be rich or poor, my choice. god said he would decide if i were to be of an high or low iq ,his choice, which was a bit unfair. he also said he would choose for me if i was to be disabled in some way as given free choice i would choose to be gifted and able bodied in order to use my free choice. I kind of got god in his mysterious ways.
And we get to "free will'.
No doubt some will accept this as the basis of freedom. All being born equal after all.
Some wish that muslims would question their faith, after all christian philosophers have been doing that for centuries, western philosophers. They may have been agnostic or dared to be atheists, but their basket of ideas is greek /christian. Freedom to question, express their thoughts, publish them , a given.
Now why can't everyone be like that?
Are they so stupid?
christian missionaries no doubt saved a few from ignorance, colonial rule managed to get some of these lesser beings to think. Even turning some to bite their masters and demand equal rights for their own countries.
Others , china , although no expert, has its own history of philosophy which has shaped its thought through to the present. I might be wrong, but thailand seems to be a hybrid , accommodating some western ideas, but is essentially of a more chinese bent.
Yes it follows from my socks post.
We had that rigid uniform idea, but the classical ideals of free thinking were taught. In all we learnt to compartmentalize; that applies here, but ignore it there, it does not suit the purpose.
The insane in indonesia are not to be pitied for the conditions that they suffer, they are not our problem Then move the argument back home and do a daily mail , muslims ,look what they believe in. Look at our own insane. Shift the parameters western style.
Thai, read jonathan head, go into denial, eastern way, a train of thought i can not enter, i am far too logical.
Then i remembered that conversation i had with god before i was conceived.
god asked me if i wanted to be a man or woman or a gay of either gender, he said it was my free choice. god asked me if i wanted to be born into a jewish or christian family or country or muslim , hindu buddhist ,a confusing long list, for one not yet born. Your choice he said , i think he was he, but pre conception had no sexual identifier. god asked given my free choice of religion where i would like to live in the world he even asked me if i wanted to be rich or poor, my choice. god said he would decide if i were to be of an high or low iq ,his choice, which was a bit unfair. he also said he would choose for me if i was to be disabled in some way as given free choice i would choose to be gifted and able bodied in order to use my free choice. I kind of got god in his mysterious ways.