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| If you could Teach everybody in the world one thing, what would it be? | ||||
| Total Topic Karma: 36 | - More by this Author | |||
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If you listen to Phil, you can't go wrong  |
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| - 26 February, 2007 | ||||||
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| "If you listen to Phil, you can't go wrong" didn't you say you used to work a sewage treatment plant?  |
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| - 26 February, 2007 | ||||||
| philbo45 says |
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| Yes, from poo poo to Nucor Steel, Goodyear maunfacturing, the coal mines of Alabama, Comcast cable, Interior design, food and baverage, the USN, prop manager for a stage company, radio telescope engineer, geography teacher, basketball coach, grocery bagger, taxi driver, truck driver, Research and Development engineer, production manager, florida tile, statinoary engineer, general construction contractor, paint and wallpaper contractor, satellite installer, vacuum cleaner salesman, auto mechanic, boiler operator, fork lift driver, freelance writer, blogger, lifeguard, bartender, surveyor assistant, paralegal, stock boy, janitor, electrician, industry mechanic and a couple more..oh yeah bonded courier for C & S Bank way back in the day |
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| never typist as you can see |
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| Do on to others as they do on to you. | ||||||
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Scorcho says |
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| "Put your faith in nothing, and nothing will let you down." | ||||||
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| No expectations No disapointments *nods* | ||||||
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Ati says |
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| Hmmm... How about the following: You are probably incorrect about most things you beleive. Take time to examine your thoughts. Write your logic out on paper. look for flaws or gaps. If you are angry, you are irrational and your assumptions can't be trusted. Do not trust your own blind belief. |
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| yes that is true Ati but not everything can be explained.... Now we are back to square one lol I totally agree with u though |
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| - 27 February, 2007 | ||||||
| infomaniac says |
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| Walk a day in another person's shoes before you pass judgement. | ||||||
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| nobody wants to teach the world to sing? Or to love? Or about the nature of reality? These all seem to be catchphrases, but what would you teach the world? |
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| If you see someone of worth; study how you might emulate! If you see someone who is unworthy; examine your own character |
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| Tolerance... I would like to teach eveyone more Tolerance... IT seems to be the lack therof that gets us as a society into so much trouble. |
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| totally agree with you there Rob Masson, the world would be better without the lack of it. It actually ties in to what Infomaniac said: "Walk a day in another person's shoes before you pass judgement." If you'd walk in everyone's shoes for a day, you will definitely be more tolerant when you return to your own (shoes). |
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| Oh, by the way. The one thing I'd teach would be agnostic atheism and pragmatism. Could fit in one package, right? |
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| DS, Instead of teaching them to be "Agnostic Athiests" I vote for teaching them to be BRight.. *grin* But I am biased.. *LOL* And yes, it could certainly fit into one packages.. Tolerant Brights! Let's start planning the World Tour! *grin* |
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| Let me come back to that. I do not intend to say that religious individuals cannot be pragmatic! | ||||||
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| DS, Well it is an interesting issue. First of all let's set the context. If we are defining Pragmatic in the most casual sense then anyone can be pragmatic in their everyday life irregardless of their religion. Pragmatism in that sense simply means being willing to do the required thing to get through the situation. But Pragmatism on a more philosophical scale is a little different. In a sense, as a Bright, I think of Pragmatism as being the key to beleiveing in a Naturalistic view of the Universe in which an external, supernatural entity is not required to explain anything. Pragmatism leads one to a very practical, explainable view of the Universe and does not accept any Dogma. Most organized religions have some basic tenets that they view as untouchable and rely on Faith in their followers to uphold those beliefs. A pragmatism will always look at new contradictory evidence and be willing to revise their world view to accomodate it and as a result has little room for Faith or Dogma. I would also contend that being a Pragmatist also leads one to realize the value of Tolerance. Intolerance ultimately can only lead to conflict and a less than optimal outcome. |
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| I would stay away from anything other than general lessons. Teaching everyone in the world Athiesm would simply be teaching everyone to think more like we personally think. To think that this would improve the world has a certain degree of hubris to it. | ||||||
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| ATI, you mean we can't simply BEAT Tolerance into the general intolerant populace... *blink blink* Oh yeah... I see the contradiction now... *grin* |
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| How to drive!!! /Sorry from NJ |
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| Mike, I gotta tell ya, I've driven around Jersey City and Lyndhurst and I gotta say.. There is some MESSED up highway through your state! And I drive in Boston! Wow! |
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| I would teach them howto kill themselves... | ||||||
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| @Hx10 Well that hardly seems sporting... *grin* |
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Ati says |
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| You have to be pretty thoroughly incompetent not to know at least a few basic ways to kill yourself... | ||||||
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| @ATI, Well you want to do yourself in a way that really has meaning.. *grin* I loved the scene in A Scanner Darly when the charater plans out his suicide to make just the right statement. He gets dressep up, partially completes a protest letter to Exxon for cancelling his credit card, has a copy of The Fountainhead tucked under his arm.. And then realizes that he only has crappy Thunderbird Wine and doesn't want to do out drinking crap so has to delay everything until he can get a decent Merlot.. Now THAT is stylin' on the Outbound Train! *grin* |
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| I think i would teach everyone respect. Respect would lead to tolerance and in some cases even love. Even if everyone tolerated everyone else, they would still fuck each other over unless they had sufficient respect not to. | ||||||
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| None of our solutions really address the root problem, it seems. As for as I can tell, the root problem is that humanity in general is populated by egotist, emotionally unstable, intolerant, nut-jobs. (I include myself under than generalization, although I do consider myself to be somewhat better than most in some of those areas.) |
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| well that is true ati, but i said what would you teach them, not how would you change their inherent sociophysiological traits |
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Ati says |
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| Fair enough. | ||||||
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Rob Masson says |
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| P0ss, Respect would be a powerful lesson to be sure... It might even solve some traffic problems! *grin* |
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| I would teach them self awareness, since that is what Ati seems to be getting at. | ||||||
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| con, what if they knew themselves and still acted like they do now? |
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| Then I would teach them what the barrel of a gun looks like, to be self aware and do these things means you have given your right to be called human. | ||||||
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| militarily enforced inner peace? |
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| BE ENLIGHTENED OR I SWEAR TO GOD YOU ARE GOING TO BE PUT IN FRONT OF A FIRING SQUAD. | ||||||
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Rob Masson says |
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| Shotgun Zen.... *grin* | ||||||
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Ati says |
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| Enlightenment at gunpoint... I like it. |
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| I'd teach everyone how to be open-minded. Or how to question everything. | ||||||
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Rob Masson says |
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| @ATI, Either way... You are going to be "One" with the universe.. *LOL* |
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| I knew you would like it Ati, also @Rob lmao, Karma to you. | ||||||
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Ati says |
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| 'Okay, you have thirty seconds to reach a state of enlightened bliss, before I blow your appendix out. 1, 2, 3...' | ||||||
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Rob Masson says |
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| Hehehehehehe... We can make Samuel Jackson the High Priest of Shotgun Zen! Of course Shotgun Zen did influence The Teachings of The Rob heavily! *LOL* Famous Shotgun Zen Quote: "Get these Motherf#%$^g Un-enlightened reptiles off my Motherf#%$^g transcendental transportation!" |
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| learning nerd, seems like everyone else is teaching them to be open minded too.. or at least giving them a decidedly well airated cranium |
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Rob Masson says |
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| P0ss, Hehehehehehehehehe... indeed! |
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