What Would Be the Answer?

Posted: June 12, 2007 - 6:15am

The place to discuss those interesting questions you've been wondering about...


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Lotta Poor Man!

Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine! That's where I mainly spend my time! Make good money $5 a day! Made any more I might move away!
Sorry just a rant bored at work

"You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know"

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Here is an open one: Why does it seem so hard to teach people how to love one another or at the very least, peacefully co-exist?

)(I'm just a, well...porpoise.)(

because some people are

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because some people are fucking stupid...

because deep down the human species ain't progressed one notch in the 5-6,000 years of semi recorded history...

you can't teach people anything. they gotta learn on their own.

Barlow:

You ain't going to learn what you don't want to know

So I give you my eyes, and all of their lies
Please help them to learn as well as to see
And capture a glance, whoa and make it a dance
Of looking at you looking at me

Hunter:

I had to learn the hard way to let her pass by
Let her pass by

Shut up and listen
Or you may never learn
Why pigs don't fly
Why water don't burn

"The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"

Well....

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Talk about "Easy Answers"!

)(I'm just a, well...porpoise.)(

I'm a cynical fuck

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I'm a cynical fuck, if you haven't noticed...

though I try to keep the dreams that I still believe.

peace.

'stupid is as stupid

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'stupid is as stupid does'

give peace a chance.

why you can't teach people

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I think that it all boils down to parenting and the values that are taught by your elders.
If more people stopped once in a while and actually thought about the hate cycle.
You are not born to hate, look at little kids that do not know about races or color yet, they are drawn to other children and all they see is another child, add the hate in the elders and thier opinon changes.
Well I do not want to ramble too much on this subject cause it does tan my hide.
I was brought up in a home that knew no such prejudice or rasicim so to me everyone deserves the same treatment, we are all human and we all need to get along if we want the world to have a positive outcome for the generations to follow.
Peace to all and have a Grateful Day

Well put!

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Well put, Farbie!

I will say one thing, one can grow up in a house festering with prejudice and ignorance and still learn how to love. Now I raise my child 3,000 miles from that prejudice and ignorance and it seems to be working well. I do have some guilt over the lack of a bond betwixt the grandparents and the grandchild, but how do you tell your 4 year-old that his grandparents are totally wrong when it comes to such things? Oh, well, I guess I should let go of the guilt. Its their own damned fault for being ignorant and prejudiced.

| I'm just a, well...porpoise. |

As someone who teaches ethics,

I think about this question a lot. There are two parts to acting morally: (1) figuring out what the right thing to do in your situation is, and (2) doing it. We tend to be pretty good at (1) in the easy cases which thankfully are the large majority, but patheitcally bad in those tough cases which are our longstanding moral conundrums. In the classroom, I figure that is the one thing I can do -- teach how to think more clearly and systematically about hard questions. But then the big problem is getting people to actually act in kind, caring, thoughtful, humane ways.

The key is to develop an active sense of empathy. This can be hard, but I think the arts are one of the best ways. When you listen to so many Dead lyrics, especially Jerry tunes, they are training to care about people who are down or less than attractive, practice taking fictional characters who you would walk past or condemn in a knee-jerk fashion and thinking of them as full-blooded humans.

WHY?

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why does some meat that is not chicken, taste like chicken?