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To: Dead Corpse
I matter to me. I like existing. Even with the bad parts.

Good enough. I like having you here, if that matters. But given your statement that why we are here doesn't matter, then you can't really call it irrational if someone else doesn't like hanging around through the bad parts. True, things might get better for them, but they might not. It's not fun any more now, and it doesn't matter anyway. How could that be irrational?

I am an arrogant sod, but why should I think anything like a Universe spanning Deity would care whether or not I ate pork today? Or own a dog? Or whether I worked on a Sunday?

On whether you eat pork - unless you're Jewish I don't think He does. On owning a dog, I don't think He's ever opined on that, but you'd better treat it well if you do. On whether you work on a Sunday, it's actually Saturday, and He cares about that for your sake, not His.

Aren't there some things you make the dog do because they're good for the dog, regardless of whether they matter to you?

5,494 posted on 03/13/2013 8:07:09 AM PDT by ArGee (An open mind is like an open window - if you don't have a screen, you get flies.)
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To: ArGee
...On owning a dog...

Missing the point. Those arbitrary edicts are from multiple religions. The dog prohibition is Muslim.

Like laws, some religions tenets are there more from the arbitrary will of the controlling class than from anything a Universe spanning Deity would give two tin turds about.

5,502 posted on 03/13/2013 8:24:06 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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