Displaying 181 To 210 Of 508 Comments Buddy, This is the first thing I came across here this AM and I’m so glad I did. » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 4:50 am Friday Music Thread – Suffragette City One for the road… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7fibtRFnLs See ya next Friday, Planet Dwellers! » Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 10:27 pm “…and now for something completely different…” » Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 10:18 pm Can’t hold us down
» Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 10:12 pm And then there’s the ultimate salute to a woman’s determination. » Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 10:01 pm One of the first songs I remember that taught me about the plight and sacrifice of women. Sad story. Great song from a long time ago. » Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 9:56 pm Greatest apologies, AdLib…I stepped on your pick “woman by Lennon” » Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 9:46 pm Woman ~ John Lennon
» Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 9:39 pm A hundred pounds of clay
» Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 9:35 pm Oh Woman, Oh why?
» Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 9:19 pm And ya can’t forget Etta
» Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 8:18 pm You think women don’t have the ‘nads?
» Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 8:10 pm Cowgirls don’t cry ~ Brooks and Dunn
» Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 7:47 pm Secrets From Beyond The Emerald Curtain – PART 2 – ecat’, my pleasure. » Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 7:38 pm Thanks jk’. » Posted By foxisms On April 8, 2011 @ 9:43 am Adonai, Just a short note to express my appreciation for your taking the time to present us with topics and discussions such as this, here on PPOV regardless of whether you see yourself as a worthy recipient of any applause. » Posted By foxisms On April 12, 2011 @ 9:25 am Genuine apologies, Bit. » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 8:55 pm That would be the half who can’t gestate or bear children wouldn’t it, bit? » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 8:28 pm True that, KT. » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 7:39 pm What ever happened to those parents who would say, “If you want to be a ditch digger, go do it! Just be the best damned ditch digger you can be and I’ll be proud of you!” » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 7:34 pm I held those beliefs too, KT. Until I heard stories and parables of the prophet Gene Roddenberry. 😉 » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 7:28 pm A-50…that’s why the original Gods were in fact Goddesses. » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 7:12 pm I hope you are on the right course there, KT. » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 7:03 pm Excellent point! » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 6:59 pm KT…”What improves the individual, ultimately improves the whole.” » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 6:36 pm I gotta agree with you there, KT. All speculative evidence on that subject points to an eventual robots rebellion and humans are found ineffective, redundant and illogical. 😀 » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 6:24 pm KT, is it at all possible, that being moral is simply living in such a way that one would quite comfortably admit and describe it to the “tribe” they are associated with, without fear of ridicule, judgment, imprisonment, social banishment or repercussion? » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 6:16 pm I don’t have the super power of learned introspection that you have Adonai. Frankly, I’m happy that someone does such as yourself so I can learn something and broaden my understanding of certain things now and again from reading the thoughts of others on just this sort of subject…but isn’t morality simply, for the most part the accepted norm of the tribe,culture, ethos, society, commune or collective that we are born into and/or later move toward and relocate to because it makes more sense to us individually? » Posted By foxisms On April 11, 2011 @ 5:56 pm Friday Music Thread— April Fool. And while this isn’t music, it’s more than fitting for Fool’s Day.
» Posted By foxisms On April 1, 2011 @ 7:32 pm And… » Posted By foxisms On April 1, 2011 @ 7:28 pmComments Posted By foxisms
Your observations about “institutional truths” was worth the ride.
Some call these the matrix, others the paradigm. But it was welcome for me to have the reminder that no matter what it’s called it’s illusory and man-ufactured all the same and hardly worth the constant focus we seem to provide it to the exclusion of all else.
There is only one sky however whether siren or tempest and it’s a fantastic reference point to break the fun house mirror in order to begin one’s day on a good footing with something solid. And to think that most of us see the sky as something empty and void provides the often needed splash of duplicity to wake us from our waking slumber.
Thank you for the grounding and the start of a great morning!
Independent Woman ~ Destiny’s Child
Army of me ~ Bjork
Keep ontruckin’ Ladies!
I didn’t realize yours was up there…but I had to have seen it and fell for that ol’ post hypnotic suggestion thing. I even grabbed the very same youtube!
Mea culpa!
This woman…you can hear them in her message and her voice!
Thanks for checking out the piece.
😉
It’s very refreshing for me to see, learn from and discuss things on occasion that in no way involve the fierce debate on which political party is responsible for the mess this country is in.
It often seems to be the ongoing thread of many articles and I often find it an absolutely thread bare debate.
Thanks, Mate!
Perhaps I could have explained my rationale better.
You referred to feelings and on that basis yes, I should not exclude anyone from their ability to have feelings of any sort. Males can feel and sense just as readily as women can be warriors and hunters regardless of XX or XY chromasomes.
But if you notice, I specifically stated a “greater capacity to feel, sense and create the life surrounding them”.
With respect to this point, only women can accomplish the creative process as such it is and according to that role, I believe women are given the tools to perform this act of creation and nurturing intrinsically where men are not.
Do they all use it? No. Of course not. Are there men who can have exceptional qualities that might be abundantly more apparent than those particular women who for one reason or another don’t accept or apply them? Certainly.
But given the raw product that humans are originally born with, the mothers of this world (potentially or effectively) are graced with the more potential for intuition, nurture, and caring of the two genders.
Since there are no absolutes, my original post should have not advanced any. And if this is what raised your eyebrow, I can certainly understand that perfectly.
Sorry. I didn’t make the rules.
Some things are immutable and that’s all there is to it.
Nature trumps “fair” every time.
It’s always, in whatever we do, a question of balance.
Not only the prime incentive for individual morality, but a great Album by the Moody Blues.
(But I know, you know that you ol’ music dawg!)
Man, that animal became extinct in our culture by the mid 60’s…early 70’s tops!!
And would still be so today in very real and tangible ways.
Of the two genders, only the female has the greater capacity to feel, sense and create the life surrounding them.
Unfortunately, the warriors are locked in an anxiety closet and couldn’t see a partnership, only a threat from such genuine power.
..bearing in mind that without this (Yin/Yang) struggle, there would be no life at all.
If not, I’m in good company and will be in as much trouble as you are if there’s any penalty involved.
In a nut shell, agrippa, our religion AND our morality is very personal and hinged on a “might is right” perspective.
“God is mighty” and “in god we trust” and “we are made in God’s image” thus “we must also be mighty for our cause it is just!”.
A nasty piece of circular secularism, that. And morally forfeit based on self aggrandizement.
And while victory and vengeance are consistently awarded to this god and then to the US, who is “his” progeny, failure and being the victim of retribution from others is never attributed to this particular personal-ity.
Schizophrenia is an equally personal experience.
A very noble sentiment and if anyone is interested in ultimately improving the whole as an ultimate goal, Umbuntu (“Unhu”) philosophy of the Zulu might be of interest to them.
(Not necessarily as “the answer” to anything, but as an interest.)
And if that comes anywhere near close to possible wouldn’t that provide a distinction between individual morality and social morality, making them separate topics of discussion entirely?
I don’t have the answers nor do I pretend to. Just thinking out loud, so to speak.
I genuinely believe everybody’s winging it on this subject.
Some “groups” throughout time have found cannibalism or human sacrifice morally acceptable. Others are morally content with cruelty and an ongoing attraction to slaughter justified by war….while others forbid things which to many seem completely benign such as public dancing or revealing an exposed ankle.
While many of these acceptable or inexcusable “morals” have a foundation in one religion or another is peripheral in that “organized” religion in any hive or collective is by it’s nature established to enforce/reinforce/indoctrinate within the terms and conditional moral confines of a chosen communal body or to overcome (or be overcome) and over ride an existing moral code for a different (newer?) one… as monotheism and it’s practices overcame polytheism and it’s practices or (just for example) Christian missionaries replaced the moral code of the Aborigines, the Mayan or the indigenous people of North America.
Morals…a sticky wicket! And I applaud your bravery and confidence, Adonai in taking it on in your very interesting series.
I may not be able to follow it all…but I’m learning stuff and new ways to look at it. Thanks.
If ya need to, hum something while you watch it.
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