Love and Robots

[Distracted]

One can teach tolerance without necessarily exposing one's children to EVERY opposing viewpoint in the world. I teach my children that people believe many different things, and what one person believes is truth may not be what another person believes. I've got to set certain standards, though. Being a proponent of IDIC doesn't mean that I want my kids surrounded by people and concepts which contradict the moral principles I'm trying to teach them. To paraphrase from the New Testament, a Christian should love his/her neighbor, but be IN the world, not OF the world.

Being pleasant to everyone does two things. It demonstrates to my kids and to others that I practice what I preach, and it indirectly evangelizes, for if just one person looks at me and says "I want to be like that" and in the process comes to know Christ, then I've done my job in this life. Loving someone doesn't mean you've got to agree with them. Sometimes you have to love someone DESPITE the fact that you disagree with them.

[JadziaKathryn]

Loving someone doesn't mean you've got to agree with them. Sometimes you have to love someone DESPITE the fact that you disagree with them.

There's that great verse that says something like, "Why are you so proud of yourself for loving those who love you back? Everyone does that! You need to love those who hate you." Paraphrased into the JadziaKathryn version

And I, for one, agree that 9 is way to young to wrestle with ideas about existence. Nine is for playing with Barbies and discovering fun rocks.

Although, with those alligators, perhaps a non-sentient robot made to get rid of any sneaky gators could be useful... Don't try and make it like a person, just make it a good guard.

[Asso]

Substantially a supreme need of explanation is the base of any religion, and I say this without any polemic intention.
Actually, that proceeds from a true human necessity, that we cannot deny.
There's a great problem, in all that, for me: please, listen with attention that I'm saying : FOR ME.
The dogma.
I shrink from dogma.
It doesn't satisfy, doesn't appease me, neither my personal need.
But I understand most people can find in this way the great and immense need of knowing the "WHY" of life and existence.

[TPoptarts]

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[Asso]

[Alelou]

Sometimes you have to love someone DESPITE the fact that you disagree with them.

I'm sure life on the boards is good for this!