I just love to ponder philosophically...

[jjj333]

My father used to love philosophical and so do I, too...
Sadly, my father's strict religion orientation limited his freedom of thought. Now my adult siblings are still piously biased and venture into materialism and spiritual philosophies, whereas I was brought up by my dear aunt and enjoyed almost nine years of wonderful love and affection.
A few minutes I posted some philosophical encouragement in the "Ogrish" forum, which shows Isis decapitating their victims, because young people viewing these gruesome videos might be in danger to follow suit.
Here's what I wrote:

الله أكبر means:
"Aloah snack bar"
On a more serious note, I wonder if you ever asked yourself what went wrong with these monstrous murderers?
Here's some of my insight that might get your reasoning going:
That kind of brutality is only enjoyed by mentally and emotionally very sick monsters. - There are two possible reasons:
1. It might be a genitally inherited criminal propensity or 2. an acquired condition. In most cases its the latter. It starts with a cruel early childhood, which later on misleads this "psychologically damaged" person to all sorts of antisocial behavior.
Gradually, they then become marginalized and discriminated and this makes them feel entitled to blame their disenchantment with life on other people and mostly the one that mistreated them in their early childhood. If it was their grandma... they kill all grandmas they can get their hands on etc.
In this cruel way they desperately try to compensate their psychological imbalance and don't even mind to lose their life in the process, because according to them life is "not worth to live".
Sadly, little do they know how wonderful life on Earth can be... and is !!
Thanks to my dearest aunt, I happen to be one of the lucky ones, having enjoyed an early childhood, full of love and affection. This got me onto the right track, whereas my siblings were brought up in a strict way (with corporal punishment) by my catholic parents. The result now reflect in all facet of our life and only one brother admitted to me that thus far I have done the best of all us siblings, who merely turned successful materialists.
I even wrote a few books about it; about how to discover, develop our inherited mental, emotional and physical abilities/ talents and how to find highest-possible, lasting contentment in the fulfillment of these, our inherited default values; our life's mission.

[HexHammer]

Unfortunaly ISIS is just following the words of the prophet, nothing more.

[David Handeye]

strictly following, that's right.

[jjj333]

I compare their flawed believes and actions with the flawed actions of Catholic clergy child abusers. Actually, their actions were known and tolerated for too long by their leaders. That is why they now became uncontrollable.
Yet, now their pious leaders try to make us believe that their religion is a "religion of love and peace".
An elderly lady told me: "Every basket has some bad apple..." to which I replied: "Yet, if the whole basket is full of bad apples, the best is to throw the whole basket away!" Our world without religions would be a better world!
Here in Chile, people asked me if I believe in God and I replied: "I don't know if God believes in me?" I then tried to impress them with: "I believe in the divine Power of the Universe or simply... in nature and its laws"; i.e. I always try to act logically correct and that's why my life is so wonderful. That's all there's to my faith and it works! I don't need to join a pious business minded organization, for I do my own thinking and therefore don't depend on other people's opinions.

[HexHammer]

I compare their flawed believes and actions with the flawed actions of Catholic clergy child abusers. Actually, their actions were known and tolerated for too long by their leaders. That is why they now became uncontrollable.
Yet, now their pious leaders try to make us believe that their religion is a "religion of love and peace".
An elderly lady told me: "Every basket has some bad apple..." to which I replied: "Yet, if the whole basket is full of bad apples, the best is to throw the whole basket away!" Our world without religions would be a better world!
Here in Chile, people asked me if I believe in God and I replied: "I don't know if God believes in me?" I then tried to impress them with: "I believe in the divine Power of the Universe or simply... in nature and its laws"; i.e. I always try to act logically correct and that's why my life is so wonderful. That's all there's to my faith and it works! I don't need to join a pious business minded organization, for I do my own thinking and therefore don't depend on other people's opinions.

Lies!

They follow only the words of the prophet, that was very evident when they spared a bunch of people recently, when they wanted to convert and pay taxes ..etc, then they protected from harm.

[GreatandWiseTrixie]

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Life is not good. If you are a meat-eater shutup about morality please.

[HexHammer]

Life is not good. If you are a meat-eater shutup about morality please.

So all predetory animals are immoral because they eat other animals?

[jjj333]

No, I gave up meat and eat more soy beans, vegetables and fruits. Animal meats give us cancer. I believe in the scientific insight of
Dr. T.Colin Campbell (and the findings in his China Study).

[thedoc]

No, I gave up meat and eat more soy beans, vegetables and fruits. Animal meats give us cancer. I believe in the scientific insight of
Dr. T.Colin Campbell (and the findings in his China Study).

If you gave up everything that someone claims causes cancer, you'd be hiding in your cocoon till you die of starvation.

[jjj333]

The problem with your prognosis is that I enjoy this no meat and dairy product nutrition for the last 30+ years... Result: I need a doctor like a hole in the head!
As all physical things are limited, I prefer feasting on emotional creativity and the exchange of virtues.
Thus, I enjoy my hobbies, such as musical creativity, mechanics and electronics. Also enjoy philosophical pondering and companionship. This lifestyle led me to lasting contentment and quality of life. What more can I have?
Comparing this to the poor quality of life of ISIS warrior, drug addicts, gangsters and murderers, makes me feel the happiest and richest man in the world! Q: If your lifestyle is even better, I love to learn from you. So, go on and spill the beans...

[Hobbes' Choice]

My father used to love philosophical and so do I, too...
Sadly, my father's strict religion orientation limited his freedom of thought. Now my adult siblings are still piously biased and venture into materialism and spiritual philosophies, whereas I was brought up by my dear aunt and enjoyed almost nine years of wonderful love and affection.
A few minutes I posted some philosophical encouragement in the "Ogrish" forum, which shows Isis decapitating their victims, because young people viewing these gruesome videos might be in danger to follow suit.
Here's what I wrote:

الله أكبر means:
"Aloah snack bar"
On a more serious note, I wonder if you ever asked yourself what went wrong with these monstrous murderers?
Here's some of my insight that might get your reasoning going:
That kind of brutality is only enjoyed by mentally and emotionally very sick monsters. - There are two possible reasons:
1. It might be a genitally inherited criminal propensity or 2. an acquired condition. In most cases its the latter. It starts with a cruel early childhood, which later on misleads this "psychologically damaged" person to all sorts of antisocial behavior.
Gradually, they then become marginalized and discriminated and this makes them feel entitled to blame their disenchantment with life on other people and mostly the one that mistreated them in their early childhood. If it was their grandma... they kill all grandmas they can get their hands on etc.
In this cruel way they desperately try to compensate their psychological imbalance and don't even mind to lose their life in the process, because according to them life is "not worth to live".
Sadly, little do they know how wonderful life on Earth can be... and is !!
Thanks to my dearest aunt, I happen to be one of the lucky ones, having enjoyed an early childhood, full of love and affection. This got me onto the right track, whereas my siblings were brought up in a strict way (with corporal punishment) by my catholic parents. The result now reflect in all facet of our life and only one brother admitted to me that thus far I have done the best of all us siblings, who merely turned successful materialists.
I even wrote a few books about it; about how to discover, develop our inherited mental, emotional and physical abilities/ talents and how to find highest-possible, lasting contentment in the fulfillment of these, our inherited default values; our life's mission.

You have to ask yourself why ISIS is not a world-wide phenomenon.
100 years of oppression and warfare have an effect on the lives of children as they grow.
Violence and co-operation are both aspects of humanity. They are encouraged by learning.

[jjj333]

Have you ever considered a more humane approach to resolving problems in your life and in our world ?
If brutality of that ISIS kind or Mexican Zeta style is your solution, your are definitely mistaken.
According to my reasoning, the logically correct way or first step to change our life for the better is by dismantling our inherited or environmentally acquired negative traits and in that task all religions failed to deliver.
Instead they followed your suggested ways... that of brutality, child abuse and materialistic self-enrichment.
So... when are you on your way to join ISIS?

[Hobbes' Choice]

Have you ever considered a more humane approach to resolving problems in your life and in our world ?
If brutality of that ISIS kind or Mexican Zeta style is your solution, your are definitely mistaken.
According to my reasoning, the logically correct way or first step to change our life for the better is by dismantling our inherited or environmentally acquired negative traits and in that task all religions failed to deliver.
Instead they followed your suggested ways... that of brutality, child abuse and materialistic self-enrichment.
So... when are you on your way to join ISIS?

Your comments have nothing to do with logic. This is a philosophy website and "logic' has a specific meaning.

If your comments are directed at me, then you have inferred meaning which is not there. I made no recommendations. And those you "countered" with, far from being "logical" are far beyond the interpretive horizons of the people of the Levant which are now mobilised to shun Western terror.

[SpheresOfBalance]

My father used to love philosophical and so do I, too...
Sadly, my father's strict religion orientation limited his freedom of thought. Now my adult siblings are still piously biased and venture into materialism and spiritual philosophies, whereas I was brought up by my dear aunt and enjoyed almost nine years of wonderful love and affection.
A few minutes I posted some philosophical encouragement in the "Ogrish" forum, which shows Isis decapitating their victims, because young people viewing these gruesome videos might be in danger to follow suit.
Here's what I wrote:

الله أكبر means:
"Aloah snack bar"
On a more serious note, I wonder if you ever asked yourself what went wrong with these monstrous murderers?
Here's some of my insight that might get your reasoning going:
That kind of brutality is only enjoyed by mentally and emotionally very sick monsters. - There are two possible reasons:
1. It might be a genitally inherited criminal propensity or 2. an acquired condition. In most cases its the latter. It starts with a cruel early childhood, which later on misleads this "psychologically damaged" person to all sorts of antisocial behavior.
Gradually, they then become marginalized and discriminated and this makes them feel entitled to blame their disenchantment with life on other people and mostly the one that mistreated them in their early childhood. If it was their grandma... they kill all grandmas they can get their hands on etc.
In this cruel way they desperately try to compensate their psychological imbalance and don't even mind to lose their life in the process, because according to them life is "not worth to live".
Sadly, little do they know how wonderful life on Earth can be... and is !!
Thanks to my dearest aunt, I happen to be one of the lucky ones, having enjoyed an early childhood, full of love and affection. This got me onto the right track, whereas my siblings were brought up in a strict way (with corporal punishment) by my catholic parents. The result now reflect in all facet of our life and only one brother admitted to me that thus far I have done the best of all us siblings, who merely turned successful materialists.
I even wrote a few books about it; about how to discover, develop our inherited mental, emotional and physical abilities/ talents and how to find highest-possible, lasting contentment in the fulfillment of these, our inherited default values; our life's mission.

Yes, the differences between us are caused by the ever variable environmental experience, both physical and mental, not only as dealt by humans, but the universe in it's totality. In other words, don't underestimate the power of the sun baking one's brains in their skull, or other such conditions. But largely, the human animal is in fact, "monkey see, monkey do!" Everyone wants to fit into that culture in which they were born, so as to feel accepted, included. They always seem to leave logic at the door, never inviting it in. Though there are us few that actually understand the human animal, for what it actually is, as we wish the same for everyone.

Wouldn't that be nice!

[jjj333]

" Everyone wants to fit into that culture in which they were born...as we wish the same for everyone. Wouldn't that be nice!"

In fact, I refuse to adapt to any culture, unless I genetically inherited these cultural/ evolutionary (positive) values, such as having inherited musical creativity etc. Only then I feel compelled to fulfill them systematically, regularly and adequately.
Only such positive values deserve to be developed and fulfilled. All our inherited negative traits should be dismantled as early as possible. It's the job of parents to discover and dismantle their kids negative traits with love and affection. My great aunt did it with me and albeit I served two years in the army, I could not imagine myself to be able to join ISIS and murder people in the way they enjoy doing it. I much prefer to show emotionally troubled people how to enjoy lasting, innermost contentment.
According to my reasoning it is meaning of life on Earth... what's your?