Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Or within my self
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Want to make the world a better place? How?
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Salvador
RF's Swedenborgian
Scientists from the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied 285 Covid-19 survivors who had tested positive for the coronavirus after their illness had apparently resolved, as indicated by a previous negative test result. The so-called re-positive patients weren’t found to have spread any lingering infection, and virus samples collected from them couldn’t be grown in culture, indicating the patients were shedding non-infectious or dead virus particles..
MJFlores
Well-Known Member
Watch it go down the drain....
In at least half of that GIF, the water is coming back up.
Just sayin'
"Want to make the world a better place? How?"
Be an informed voter.
Salvador
RF's Swedenborgian
Sorry, I wasn't trying to derail this thread, I was just considering how us C.O.V.I.D. anti-bodied persons were in the fortunate position of making our C.O.V.I.D. ravaged world a better place for all the SARs-CoV2 lacking anti-bodied persons.
And if this is not so? Would a back-up plan be better than just waiting - such as doing some actual planning ourselves? Apologies if I misread your post.
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Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
You think that we have come to this stage of civilization because of empathy?
Hellbound Serpiente
Active Member
Actually I was serious there, as much as I had made similar sarcastic comments in the past, I meant it this time around
Empathy was a key part of it, yes.
My point is that this idea of "don't worry about making the world better" is built on a foundation of "don't care about the well-being of others."
Anyone who has empathy will try to make things better for others in some way.
InvestigateTruth
Well-Known Member
I believe Bahaullah exactly answers that:
“Man’s merit lieth in service and virtue…”6 wrote Bahá’u’lláh. “The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds, through commendable and seemly conduct.”
Living the Principle of Oneness | What Bahá’ís Believe
These two statements strike me as contradictory:
Terrywoodenpic
Oldest Heretic
at 85 changing myself will not change the world one iota.
Had I changed myself as a teen it would not have changed the world one Iota either.
It is the interface between people that needs the change.
On our own, we can do little good or evil.
it is only when we interconnect with others that significant harm and good can be done.
Religion never addresses this problem. It assumes that it is sufficient to change ourselves.
all that does is to divorce ourselves from everything likely to be able to influence change.
Politicians understand this process all to well, and manipulate it and us to their own advantage.
They call it social engineering.
While individuals can withstand it to some degree, they inevitably fall victim to it. because people need to conform. they prefer to have than have not in every way.
At the moment the political face of the world, is based on the lowest possible common denominator, as that suits both big business and the wealthy social and political elite. it give them the greatest possible margin for wealth and power.
Had I changed myself as a teen it would not have changed the world one Iota either.
It is the interface between people that needs the change.
On our own, we can do little good or evil.
it is only when we interconnect with others that significant harm and good can be done.
Religion never addresses this problem. It assumes that it is sufficient to change ourselves.
all that does is to divorce ourselves from everything likely to be able to influence change.
Politicians understand this process all to well, and manipulate it and us to their own advantage.
They call it social engineering.
While individuals can withstand it to some degree, they inevitably fall victim to it. because people need to conform. they prefer to have than have not in every way.
At the moment the political face of the world, is based on the lowest possible common denominator, as that suits both big business and the wealthy social and political elite. it give them the greatest possible margin for wealth and power.
Hellbound Serpiente
Active Member
Not sure what is contradictory about it ...
I think that throwing up one's hands and saying "welp... there's nothing I can do; it's all up to God" is an expression of indifference.
Hellbound Serpiente
Active Member
I never said anything about not doing anything, rather only God Has the Capabilities to change the world forever. We can try, but I don't think we can do so successfully. We are not omnipotent, which is exactly what's needed to establish complete and ever-lasting positive changes