rachel wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 3:18 pm
From Paul, if you want a Bible verse...
1 Corinthians:23-33 - 10 All to God’s Glory
“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying. No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.
Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”
If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience. But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience? If I partake in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.
So, anything you do to get along and win people to the right side is acceptable, but it may not be good for you. Your good conscience will determine what falls into this category. A legalist on the other hand will look to the letter of the law to see what they can get away with. But. if someone openly asks you to partake in something that you know is wrong, you must decline, as your agreement might serve to encourage them in the act.
good quote, thanks for sharing Rachel.
staying with the Bible theme, I argue there are things "as old as Methusalem". They are the things that are there, in all of us, irrespective of culture, upbringing, race, religion, political views, etc. They are there because they work, the best practices over time, the wisdoms of life.
Life ALWAYS has been centered around these wisdoms, sharing them (there was no bantertainment) and by that shaping and sharpening them.
Those life values are and always have been, in a human environment that is, not in a transhuman zoron NPC environment, leading in life.
Meaning our life philosophies and making them valuable through each of our own individual skills, applied in a social environment, anywhere, everywhere, has always been the basis of society.
Thus the only organic, natural, unmarked and thus aSHIFT. way of life
is to only work
for family, friends and other trustees, other tribespeople
only those you share those values with
only those who you can meet in flesh and blood
only those who work on good causes, as the Bible points out
whoring out a potential valuable mind
to the worst kind of terrorwrists of today and tomorrow
makes the Pig Farm Prostitute into a just as much of a satanist, together with all the nihilist zorons here with their egomaniacal "Thou What Thou Willst" ("there is no objective morality") nonsense
change your name into Cognitive Degenerate, then it matches aGAIN.