I would very much like to stay in a bed and breakfast in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Why?
Slurpee capital of the world. Winnipeg Bear (Winnie-the-Pooh.) Neil Young, The Weakerthans and The Wailin' Jennys. Residents of Winnipeg are called Winnipeggers.
That's all I need to say.
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1 comments:
I feel funny carrying on discussions in blog comments because they rarely carry over from post to post, such as now, when I have nothing to say about Winnipeg, except that I really like the Wailin' Jennys.
But, I don't think people feel the need to protect their god (except crazies like that pastor in Iowa who said we need to vote republican or else Allah will be more popular than Jesus).
I'm not sure they're trying to protect themselves either, unless they think we're in for a repeat of Sodom and Gomorrah and if our society gets too "girls gone wild" the big guy will start throwing fire-balls until we ship up or get dead.
I think religion offers these people a very simple moral structure, which is more comforting than ambiguity (even if you discover you're one of the bad ones... at least there's a structure), and people who try to impose these rules on others either don't realize they're doing it ("I'm defending god's law" rather than "I'm taking away someone's civil rights") or they do understand but they feel it's okay to limit other people's actions because, in their minds, it's okay to stop people from doing bad things... or in a more patronizing sense, it's okay to keep people from doing things that are bad for them.
Sort of like if Superman went around taking people's cigarettes away from them, in one sense he's protecting them like he would from a big-ass meteor but in another sense he's taking away their freedom to smoke.
To be more accurate though, I suppose with sin it would be more like Superman flying around and taking away people's soccer balls because for some reason or another he considers playing soccer to be morally bankrupt.
So, I don't know.
In general I'd say people are selfish, but I don't believe being selfish is at all immoral.
Empathy supposedly involves feeling bad when we register someone else is feeling bad, as a result of our bad feelings we decide to make ourselves feel better, which we can do by ignoring the problem and watching television, or by alleviating the other person's discomfort (as much as we can), in turn making ourselves feel better... or we could pray things get better, feel satisfied we'd done all we could (thus alleviating our own pain), let them go on suffering, and maybe get canonized by the catholic church.
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