I truly try to believe this, but it is quite difficult sometimes. God loves you, God loves us, God loves everyone, no matter what they have done. May we all gain his wisdom and mercy.
No. Not only would it be morally wrong, it would force normal workers to compete with people who don't get paid and create perverse incentives to keep prisoners in jail longer.
Man should not wish for easy lives free of turbulence, but the strength and wisdom to overcome any turbulence that may present itself. The good isn’t so special without the contrast of the bad. Sunny days wouldn’t be so special if it wasn’t for rain. Joy wouldn’t feel so good if it wasn’t for pain.
As President JFK once said, “Do not pray for easy lives, my friends. Pray to become stronger men.”
I see that you are pointing at something old and true: meaning is born from contrast. A life without struggle wouldn't be a paradise; it would be a flatline. We don't actually want ease. We want earned peace.
But I'd push it one step further. It's not just that hardship makes joy sweeter by comparison. It's that hardship is where we become.
Strength isn't something you receive before the storm. It's forged in the storm. Wisdom isn't granted in advance. It's distilled from every time you failed to have it.
So the turbulence isn't the obstacle to the good life. It is the good life, wearing a disguise.
The only real question is whether you meet it as a victim or as a student.
I'm not American, so I'm looking at this from the outside. The Constitution itself is a remarkable document. What Americans live under today is not really it. It's been stretched and hollowed out while the text sits there like a museum piece.
The original design was tight. Enumerated powers. Separation of powers. Limited federal government. States as the primary unit. Power was meant to be split, starved, and bound.
But the commerce clause became a blank check for federal control. The general welfare clause became a loophole for endless spending. The necessary and proper clause swallowed the rest of the list. Executive power grew beyond recognition. Agencies write rules without anyone electing them. Wars happen without declarations. The states lost their voice when the Senate became popularly elected.
So the structure is still on paper. The parchment is intact. But the thing it was designed to do, limit federal power, has been undone. Not by amendment, which needs consent. By interpretation, precedent, and habit.
Coming from Italy, I recognize the pattern. We know something about beautiful constitutions while power quietly flows elsewhere. . .
I think that the founding fathers did the best they could possibly have done with the knowledge and resources of the time. They could not have predicted two world wars, the internet, or all of the shit in between. They nearly had a perfect government.
If you’re not gonna be your biggest er, who will? If everyone around you is telling you you’re great but you don’t believe it, it all means nothing. But if you believe you’re great, nothing anyone tells you will matter.
I think he would welcome the comparison. But my point isn't that Kanye does something morally equivalent to running death camps, it's that making good art doesn't mean you're a good person.
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Young punks takin' shots, strippin' down to dirty socks
Music up, gettin' hot, kiss me, gimme all you got
It's pretty obvious that you got a crush (You know)
That magic in your pants, it's makin' me blush (Fo' sho')
We do not have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Its essentially resource that we burn out.
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“I’ve got a question for ya. do you think even the worst person can change...? that everybody can be a good person, if they just try?”
-funny bone man
I truly try to believe this, but it is quite difficult sometimes. God loves you, God loves us, God loves everyone, no matter what they have done. May we all gain his wisdom and mercy.
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Logged out, mb.
I always wondered if we look up to someone for they may be the light to our hopeful future of maybe just what we hope to become later in life.
Should the death penalty be replaced with Slavery: Roman edition? (Not racist or anything, so shut up.)
No. Not only would it be morally wrong, it would force normal workers to compete with people who don't get paid and create perverse incentives to keep prisoners in jail longer.
Idk about the death penalty, but I think rapists and people like ova should definitely have to do forced hard labor until they drop.
I don’t know what slavery Roman Edition entails, but nah some people just gotta go
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Man should not wish for easy lives free of turbulence, but the strength and wisdom to overcome any turbulence that may present itself. The good isn’t so special without the contrast of the bad. Sunny days wouldn’t be so special if it wasn’t for rain. Joy wouldn’t feel so good if it wasn’t for pain.
As President JFK once said, “Do not pray for easy lives, my friends. Pray to become stronger men.”
I see that you are pointing at something old and true: meaning is born from contrast. A life without struggle wouldn't be a paradise; it would be a flatline. We don't actually want ease. We want earned peace.
Strength isn't something you receive before the storm. It's forged in the storm. Wisdom isn't granted in advance. It's distilled from every time you failed to have it.
Who are you dude? This shit is wild. Why are you on this site?
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I'm a furry with too much free time and a thirst for knowledge.
Has anyone in history ever thought that they weren't personally living in the proverbial "interesting times"?
”I guess you never know what you’ve got till it’s gone” -Kanye. I’m telling you greenfeld, there’s so much philosophical topics to be found in Kanye
You...know that saying is ancient, right? Kayne didn't coin it.
Kanye said it better
Maybe good isn’t special without the bad, but it’s still good. I don’t like Elden Ring because Yandere simulator exists. I enjoy it on its own merit.
“Those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
"We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard." Favorite JFK quote ever. You make a fantastic point. Love it.
Opinions on the US Constitution? Was it good, bad, in between? I love hearing your guys' thoughts.
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"Yeah, what he said"
I think that the founding fathers did the best they could possibly have done with the knowledge and resources of the time. They could not have predicted two world wars, the internet, or all of the shit in between. They nearly had a perfect government.
They have a constitution? Well... They should work on that..
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Wdym?
If you’re not gonna be your biggest er, who will? If everyone around you is telling you you’re great but you don’t believe it, it all means nothing. But if you believe you’re great, nothing anyone tells you will matter.
be like Kanye
Be like the black guy who like Hitler? He could definitely stand to be surrounded by fewer yes men.
Greenfeld, did you make MBDTF?
What is MBDTF?
Oh, you poor man.
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Go. Now. Experience greatness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Beautiful_Dark_Twisted_Fantasy
even Hitler painted flowers
Greenfeld you cannot be genuinely comparing Adolf Hitler to Kanye
I think he would welcome the comparison. But my point isn't that Kanye does something morally equivalent to running death camps, it's that making good art doesn't mean you're a good person.
well I mean yeah nobody said that
look at you, Greenfeld, getting all philosophical. So proud of you
I contain multitudes
...Damn
Here we go again
Common ed on this beat, I made it into jam
And everything I’m not made me everything that I am
Damn
Here we go again
People talkin' shit, but when the shit hit the fan
... robo
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