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Posted on 12/06/2004 9:32:43 AM PST by xcamel
Ok.. FReepers are unique people, and I'm sure everybody has one of those "favorite one-liner" trueisms regarding politics, conservatism, or life in general. How about listing a few for posterity...
Here's a start: It is much more important to be concerned about what was said about what got done, than to worry about what got done about what was said.
This is news?
This one is textbook 10.
Contentment is the realization that life is a gift not a right.
Be careful what you wish for.
AGNOSTICISM- MEANS ONE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE. IT COMES FROM THE WORD IGNORAMUS, ONE WHO IS IGNORANT .THIS KNOWLEDGE CAN ONLY COME FROM ONES EXPERIENCE. AN AGNOSTIC IS SOMEONE WHO HAS NO PROOF THERE IS A GOD SO HOLDS BACK HIS OPINION UNTIL ALL THE FACTS ARE IN. BUT REFUSES TO SEE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACTS AS VERIFIABLE.
ACTIVISM---LIFE IS TO BE FILLED WITH ACTIONS AND ENJOYED.
ASCETICISM- A DENIAL OF PLEASURE, TO CONTROL ONES PASSIONS.
ATHEISM- A DENIAL THAT THERE IS A GOD WITHOUT ANY PROOF. AND WHEN IT IS PRESENTED HE DOES NOT FAIRLY LOOK AT IT.
CONFORMISM --- RECOGNITION BY OTHERS IS IMPERATIVE --- I AM WHAT I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE.
DEISM -CAME FROM THE 17TH -18TH CENTURY, GOD CREATED THE WORLD BUT DOES NOT INTERVENE SUPERNATURALLY TODAY, BUT LETS LIFE IT RUN ITS COURSE. GOD IS THE FIRST CAUSE THE SOURCE OF IMMUTABLE LAWS THE WORLD OPERATES ON NATURAL AND SELF SUSTAINING LAWS IN SCIENCE. ONE CANNOT KNOW GOD FROM THE BIBLE.
EPICURIANISM- PLEASURE IS THE HIGHEST GOOD AND IDEAL IN LIFE, REGULATED WITH TEMPERANCE PEACE OF MIND AND CULTURAL PURSUITS.
HEDONISM- PLEASURE IS HAPPINESS. THE ONLY PROPER GOAL OF MORAL ENDEAVOR. ONE WHO OVERCOMES SUFFERING BY PLEASURE.
INDIVIDUALISM --- WE CAN DEPEND ON NO ONE BUT OURSELVES --- SELF SUFFICIENCY
LIBERALISM- A WORLDVIEW WITH OPEN-MINDED TOLERANCE, WANTING TO PROGRESS WITHOUT HINDRANCE BY HAVING NO BARRIERS.
MATERIALISM --- MATTER IS ALL THERE IS---I AM WHAT I'M MADE OF, OWN AND DO. WHAT YOU SEE IS ALL THERE IS.
MODERNISM- TO BRING UP TO DATE WITH THE CURRENT VIEW OF THE CULTURE
MONOTHEISM- ONE WHO BELIEVES THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD JEWS, CHRISTIANS, MOSLEMS, BAHAI. THERE ARE DIFFERING OPINIONS ON WHETHER THE PURSUIT TO KNOW THIS GOD CAN BE ACHIEVED. BOTH BIBLICAL JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY BELIEVE HE IS A PERSONAL GOD WHO IS KNOWABLE AND INTIMATE IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP.
PANTHEISM- GOD IS IDENTICAL WITH THE WORLD ALL AROUND US, ALL IS GOD AND ALL IS DIVINE. GOD DOES NOT POSSESS PERSONALITY OR HAVE TRANSCENDENCE. IF GOD IS IN ALL THINGS THAN HE HAS BECOME SUBJECT T THE LAWS HE CREATED. THEN THE NATURAL LAWS BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN HE AND THEY BECOME GOD BECAUSE THE GREATER RULES OVER THE LESSER.
POLYTHEISM- ONE WHO BELIEVES IN MANY GODS. THEN ALL ARE EQUAL AND HAVE THE SAME INTELLIGENCE.
PLATONISM-THE TRUE WORLD IS THE UNSEEN WORLD OF IDEAS AND THOUGHT.
RELATIVISM --- IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE AS LONG AS YOU BELIEVE SOMETHING AND YOU FEEL ITS RIGHT FOR YOU, ALTHOUGH IT MAY NOT BE RIGHT FOR SOMEONE ELSE IT IS FOR YOU.
SECULARISM --- RELIGION IS ALL RIGHT IN ITS RIGHT PLACE --- ONE IS SUFFICIENT WITHOUT GOD. RELIGION IS FOR THOSE WHO CAN’T COPE ON THEIR OWN AND NEED A CRUTCH.
STOISM - REASON IS THE HIGHEST GOOD, PEOPLE ARE UNAFFECTED BY PLEASURE AND PAIN.
THEISM- IS THE BELIEF THERE IS A GOD A CREATOR, BOTH BEYOND AND WITHIN THE WORLD WHO CAN INTERVENE SUPERNATURALLY. A CREATOR AND SUSTAINER WHO SOVEREIGNLY CONTROLS THE WORLD, THAT ALL THINGS FIND THEIR MEANING AND SUBSTANCE IN THIS BEING.
My favorite "ism" is antidisestablishmentarianism.
How True!
ROFL!
Be grateful you're not one of those unfortunate people they used to test preparations A through G.
Onanism...which may kill even more kittens every year than silly vanities.
Your definitions of atheist and agnostic are silly, sad to say.
Have a very bad case of do-it-yourself-ism! Ever heard of that? That's what happens when you do not have enough money to hire people to mow the lawn, repair broken stuff, clean your house, etc. I'm determined that this will not spread to repairing my own car, even to chainging the oil.
I wonder what the point is?
What about CONSERVATISM?
Poor kitties.
Lottoism --the continual lifetime investment for wishful thinkers (like me).
It is better to have loved and lost, than to have read a list of "isms" in all caps.
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