Thread: Bible for DUMMIES

Originally Posted by Babylon

Could you elaborate a little on what you mean by Acceptance?

By acceptance, I mean the diversity of personality traits you could display in a society without becoming a social outcast. Acceptance means not talking, showing facial expressions or body language of disapproval towards individuals who don't fit into our preferences. Too much acceptance means surrendering to negative traits of others posing a possible threat to you. Too little acceptance means that there will be a higher need for shrouding aspects of who you are, which can propagate. Like fear of people knowing how you shake your rocks off to women in latex, creates a need to tell the whole world how sinful latex sites are. (Perfectly random example ) Too little acceptance increases the chance of your offspring having mental disorders. Too little acceptance creates cold.

Originally Posted by chu chu rocket

By acceptance, I mean the diversity of personality traits you could display in a society without becoming a social outcast. Acceptance means not talking, showing facial expressions or body language of disapproval towards individuals who don't fit into our preferences. Too much acceptance means surrendering to negative traits of others posing a possible threat to you. Too little acceptance means that there will be a higher need for shrouding aspects of who you are, which can propagate. Like fear of people knowing how you shake your rocks off to women in latex, creates a need to tell the whole world how sinful latex sites are. (Perfectly random example ) Too little acceptance increases the chance of your offspring having mental disorders. Too little acceptance creates cold.

Is this whole thing about being gay?

Originally Posted by chu chu rocket

By acceptance, I mean the diversity of personality traits you could display in a society without becoming a social outcast

Serial Killers fit into this category.

Originally Posted by chu chu rocket

Buck, the fact that there is a whole lot of people lacking that perspective shows that the Bible is a liability. It will be interpreted in a fiendish way, it will spread hatred originating from old old old cultures. Call it a fallacy of men instead of a fallacy of the Bible if you want to. You will always find a literalist interpretation.

Yeah, that's pretty much the way it is with political documents as well. That's why we have "strict constructionists" and "activist judges" in the courts. I don't really have a problem with the fact that different people see things in a diffierent way. That's just what being human is all about.

Originally Posted by Babylon

Is this whole thing about being gay?

It doesn't have to be anything like that at all. It could be listening to rock music. It could be dying your hair. Having an abortion. Shoplifting. Talking back to your teachers. Demonstrating. Skipping school. Smoking pot. Wearing torn jeans. Small skirts. Lipstick. Masturbating. Crying. Being a nut case. Being obese, and still allow yourself to eat. If you pass on the idea to your offspring that they should be as much like boy scouts as possible, then you have narrowed down their range of acting quite a bit. Is that positive?

The bible? A bunch of crap - pick up a copy of John Locke's Treatises on Government.

Bible for dummies...

"God is real but we cannot prove it, so just do as we say"

..is pretty much the running theme of the big book.

Comrade