That's why Noah could find a flaw in god's plan?thedoc wrote:Several good points here, God's logic and understanding are not man's logic and understanding. Man's failing is to try and fit God into Man's understanding and definitions. Why should man expect that man's limited understanding could ever encompass God's unlimited understanding.
What is your moral compass?
Re: What is your moral compass?
Re: What is your moral compass?
It's funny how man's accomplishments that seem like so much are really so little.
Ozymandias
"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I like the massive confidence Ozymandius showed when he said:
"I am Ozymandius king of kings, look upon my wonders and despair!"
Not because it was a particularly arrogant thing to say but it certainly was something you can use to see the times.
Age of despots I suppose.
I'm not sure what monument they were carved on but I bet it was a big one and probably phallic in nature. As most tall sculptures are regardless of who or what they portray.
Shelley captured it though, you have to give him that. The ego of kings is of course as nothing before time.
Re: What is your moral compass?
Understanding truth is a prerequisite for all goals, not ethics per-se so i'm going to leave that out. Also i want to distinguish between morality which is very personal, and ethics, which is more formal.
My moral compass is of two parts, negative and positive.
- do no harm
- Noblesse Oblige+
Both must be interpreted but the acter, meaning there is another district necessity of having a framework of understanding in which to apply them. That's The difference between an answer (the framework of understanding) and a solution (custom application in a particular instance).
Do no harm is widely discussed in other places which is sufficient.
I extend the idea of Noblesse Oblige universally. In its original meaning it was the duty of lords to care for their serfs. Not only should the wealthy care for the poor, the creative should care for the mundane. The intelligent owe a debt to the stupid, the healthy to the sick, and so on. Each person must decide for themselves how to apply the rule.
There is Always a moral obligation to check your work.
My moral compass is of two parts, negative and positive.
- do no harm
- Noblesse Oblige+
Both must be interpreted but the acter, meaning there is another district necessity of having a framework of understanding in which to apply them. That's The difference between an answer (the framework of understanding) and a solution (custom application in a particular instance).
Do no harm is widely discussed in other places which is sufficient.
I extend the idea of Noblesse Oblige universally. In its original meaning it was the duty of lords to care for their serfs. Not only should the wealthy care for the poor, the creative should care for the mundane. The intelligent owe a debt to the stupid, the healthy to the sick, and so on. Each person must decide for themselves how to apply the rule.
There is Always a moral obligation to check your work.