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One of the first things I did after seeing the depressing election news this morning was check to see which of my Facebook friends ‘like’ the pages of the Conservatives or David Cameron, and unfriend them. (Thankfully, none of my friends ‘like’ the UKIP page.) Life is too short, I thought, to hang out with people who hold abhorrent political views, even if it’s just online.
This marked a change of heart for me. Usually, I try to remain engaged with such people in the hope that I might be able to change their views through debate. (Admittedly, I don’t always engage constructively with them. Sometimes, late at night, when my brain is too tired to do anything fancy and I spot an offensive tweet by a UKIP supporter, the urge to murder them in 140 characters is too difficult to resist.) Did I do the wrong thing? Should I have kept my Conservative friends?
I’m not so sure. I am attracted by the view that we should all keep the debate open, discuss our political views, take other people’s views into account, and revise and improve our own as we all benefit from this dialogue. I’m attracted by the view that there is such a thing as progress in politics. But—depressingly—I’m far more sceptical than I was yesterday about how much of a difference we can make with political debate. There are several reasons for this.
One is that, in much of British culture, people are uncomfortable with debate about politics. It would, in some circles, be rude to raise the topic of politics over dinner, and to try to change someone’s mind about their political views—well, that’s frankly out of order. We’re much more comfortable talking about the weather, who might win the X Factor, or Kim Kardashian’s arse. The British unwillingness to discuss politics was illustrated today by the sway of the ‘shy Tories’: the people who voted Conservative, but who kept quiet about it in the run-up to the election, and certainly didn’t tell the opinion polls.
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Probably every parent who ever existed said those words, or something resembling those words, to their children. The words summarize a “given” in the human experiment.
Sometimes good people get good outcomes. By the same token, however, sometimes bad people get good outcomes.
The ultimate equalizer in life is that all of us without exception have a date with death, some sooner than others. That life can be snuffed out while performing some noble task or while crossing the street with our headphones blocking the sound of the oncoming bus are both possible. Either way, as the joke has it, “You gonna die!”
I find encouragement, however, that God is the judge of all humankind, and one day He will sit in judgment on the great and the small, the sinners and the saints, and as the patriarch Abraham observed in his rhetorical question:
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Can I get an amen?!
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Probably every parent who ever existed said those words, or something resembling those words, to their children. The words summarize a “given” in the human experiment.
Sometimes good people get good outcomes. By the same token, however, sometimes bad people get good outcomes.
The ultimate equalizer in life is that all of us without exception have a date with death, some sooner than others. That life can be snuffed out while performing some noble task or while crossing the street with our headphones blocking the sound of the oncoming bus are both possible. Either way, as the joke has it, “You gonna die!”
I find encouragement, however, that God is the judge of all humankind, and one day He will sit in judgment on the great and the small, the sinners and the saints, and as the patriarch Abraham observed in his rhetorical question:
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Can I get an amen?!
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When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?
Here's what she said to me
Qué será, será
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Qué será, será
What will be, will be
When I grew up and fell in love
I asked my sweetheart what lies ahead?
Will we have rainbows day after day?
Here's what my sweetheart said
Qué será, será
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Qué será, será
What will be, will be
Now I have children of my own
They ask their mother, what will I be
Will I be handsome? Will I be rich?
I tell them tenderly
Qué será, será
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Qué será, será
What will be, will be
Qué será, será
ترجمة إلى اللغة العربية
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One, two princes kneel before you
That what I said now
Princes, princes who adore you
Just go ahead now
One has diamonds in his pockets
That's some bread, now
This one said he wants to buy you rockets
Ain't in his head, now
This one he got a princely racket
That's what I said now
Got some big seal upon his jacket
Ain't in his head now
You marry him, your father will condone you
How 'bout that now
You marry me, your father will disown you
He'll eat his hat, now
Marry him, marry me
I'm the one that loved you baby can't you see?
Ain't got no future or family tree
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be
I know what a prince and lover ought be
Said if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead now
And if you like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead now
And if you wanted to buy me flowers
Just go ahead now
And if you like to talk for hours
Just go ahead now
Said one, two princes kneel before you
That what I said now
Princes, princes who adore you
Just go ahead now
One has diamonds in his pockets
That's some bread, now
This one said he wants to buy you rockets
Ain't in his head, now
Marry him
Marry me
I'm the one that loved you baby can't you see?
Ain't got no future or family tree
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be
I know what a prince and lover ought be
Said if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead now
And if you like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead now
And if you wanted to buy me flowers
Just go ahead now
And if you like to talk for hours
Just go ahead now
And if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead now
And if you like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead now
And if you like to buy me flowers
Just go ahead now
And if you like to talk for hours
Just go ahead now
If you want to call me baby
Just go ahead now
And if you like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead now
If you want to buy me flowers
Just go ahead now
And if you like to talk for hours
Just go ahead now
Oh Baby!
Just go ahead now
Oooh!
Just just go ahead now
Oooh, your majesty!
Just go ahead now
Come on forget the King who... marry me! (just go ahead now)
Come on, come on, come on (just go ahead now)
Go ahead now
Just go ahead now
If you want to buy me flowers
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Is it possible to kill your conscience? If yes, how?
Yes — by making one bad, destructive, dishonest choice after another, and then justifying those choices. By falling down this slippery slope, you can so warp your own internal moral compass as to make any action, no matter how terrible, excusible in your own mind. At that point, you’re not behaving as a human being, but rather more like a cornered animal, or an addict — who is so desperate to survive by whatever means, that you’ll do and say anything at all to get what you want in the moment — without thinking much about the immediate effects on others, or the long term consequences for everyone, including yourself.
And when I say survive here, I also mean “achieve” — because in truth, the need to “achieve” social status, material wealth, etc. are just another kind of addiction. They’re poor substitutes for a real sense of human self-worth and unconditional love — and because in our culture we’re so quick to judge one another, there’s a real scarcity of that feeling. So we have a huge number of people who think they have to “achieve” status and out-compete the person next to them in order to be valued themselves, or to have any sense of self-worth — so achievement is just another manifestation of the survival instincts of a cornered, desperate animal.
Our whole civilization runs on such desperation — hence the scarcity of honesty and conscience in our society.
I have an English Diploma from the Saudi British center . Education & Philosophy,
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Probably every parent who ever existed said those words, or something resembling those words, to their children. The words summarize a “given” in the human experiment.
Sometimes good people get good outcomes. By the same token, however, sometimes bad people get good outcomes.
The ultimate equalizer in life is that all of us without exception have a date with death, some sooner than others. That life can be snuffed out while performing some noble task or while crossing the street with our headphones blocking the sound of the oncoming bus are both possible. Either way, as the joke has it, “You gonna die!”
I find encouragement, however, that God is the judge of all humankind, and one day He will sit in judgment on the great and the small, the sinners and the saints, and as the patriarch Abraham observed in his rhetorical question:
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Can I get an amen?!
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If only money , status , prestige and education were the litmus test of ones character, than qualities like compassion , empathy, love, humanity would be considered useless.
According to me the only thing that makes anyone better that the other is ‘knowledge’ . Nothing else matters, i have seen educated people with status money and prestige being rude, inconsiderate and stupid. At the same time i have seen simple people coming form humble backgrounds being kind , generous and much more knowledgeable.
Consider this, when someone passes away , people gather and reminisce what kind of a person he or she was, not how much bank balance they had or what degree they possessed.
This explains a lot about what really matters!!
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