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To: Tax-chick

“You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.”

why in the world do we need to serve anybody, divine or otherwise...are we not freeborn, unbound from the humility of bowing and scraping...?


25 posted on 12/04/2018 1:12:51 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

Thank you, John Locke.

Anyway, ask Camille Paglia why she thinks we need “true idols.”


26 posted on 12/04/2018 1:15:43 PM PST by Tax-chick (Ask me about my Marine!)
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To: IrishBrigade
you kinda sound like my tween :)

you honestly can't think of anyone you might oughta serve?

29 posted on 12/04/2018 1:20:43 PM PST by xhrist ("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. " - C.S. Lewis)
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To: IrishBrigade

“Freeborn.” Stop right there.

Who made you?

Do you have a purpose?

What are you here for?

What are you supposed to be doing?

Where are you going?

Seriously.

And don’t waste our time with any Sartre or Nietzche stuff.


38 posted on 12/04/2018 1:48:15 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein)
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To: IrishBrigade

“Freeborn.” Stop right there.

Who made you?

Do you have a purpose?

What are you here for?

What are you supposed to be doing?

Where are you going?

Seriously.

And don’t waste our time with any Sartre or Nietzche stuff.


40 posted on 12/04/2018 1:48:29 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein)
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To: IrishBrigade
I don't want to be insulting, but "freeborn" is a word without referent.

You had nothing to do with your coming into existence. You are not a self-invented entity. You had no choices to make about your physical, mental, or emotional characteristics, your talents, your temperament, your genetic, environmental, or social endowments, neither your nature nor your nurture, nor even your inclinations or preferences.

NOTHING you have is "from you."

The whole concept of "freeborn," it seems to me, represents a failure to grasp your own fundamental condition.

I may have misunderstood what you mean by it; so if I have been barking up the wrong tree, please redirect me and tell me what you're talking about.

44 posted on 12/04/2018 2:00:16 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein)
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To: IrishBrigade
I got mixed up between the pastrami ad the swiss. I might have sent the last two posts in the wrong order.

If you switch them around they might make more sense "o)

68 posted on 12/04/2018 4:13:46 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein)
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