greenerworld007
Newbie
Hi,
Is Religion and caste or community too important for us??
Why cant we behave as brothers and sisters??
When will people realise this??
Why the fighting??
Please answer this
If u feel this question as usefull
Please recommend people to behave as brothers and sisters..
Is Religion and caste or community too important for us??
Why cant we behave as brothers and sisters??
When will people realise this??
Why the fighting??
Please answer this
If u feel this question as usefull
Please recommend people to behave as brothers and sisters..
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Very separate questions.
Community is almost certainly essential. As soon as we lose community, we are in the state of Hobbes's primitive man: every one of us is in a state of war against everyone else, and our lives are solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Caste: well, are you referring to formal caste, societally recognized -- which exists in many countries outside India, including Tibet and Japan -- or class, which is often what is formalized into caste?
Class can be based on money, or birth, or religion, or education, or any mixture thereof, plus other factors too. Class is probably inevitable: 'we' stick with people 'we' like, and are more likely to meet people of 'our' class, though it's always worth making a conscious effort to go outside 'our' class. Caste, as a formalization of class, is much harder to defend.
Finally, religion. A friend of mine refuses to tell anyone her religion, on the grounds that it's a private matter. That's an excellent argument prima facie, but could well stifle useful conversation and keep some people from the comfort or happiness they can derive from religion or from its absence.
As soon as anyone starts shoving their religion in my face, and saying it's the One True Path, I get a bit annoyed. They can't all be right, and when I hear anyone say "But I AM right, and everyone else is wrong," entsichere ich meinen Browning. (I release the safety catch on my pistol). THAT'S where you get the fighting. You sometimes need to fight for freedom from religion as well as freedom of religion.
Cheers,
R.
Community is almost certainly essential. As soon as we lose community, we are in the state of Hobbes's primitive man: every one of us is in a state of war against everyone else, and our lives are solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Caste: well, are you referring to formal caste, societally recognized -- which exists in many countries outside India, including Tibet and Japan -- or class, which is often what is formalized into caste?
Class can be based on money, or birth, or religion, or education, or any mixture thereof, plus other factors too. Class is probably inevitable: 'we' stick with people 'we' like, and are more likely to meet people of 'our' class, though it's always worth making a conscious effort to go outside 'our' class. Caste, as a formalization of class, is much harder to defend.
Finally, religion. A friend of mine refuses to tell anyone her religion, on the grounds that it's a private matter. That's an excellent argument prima facie, but could well stifle useful conversation and keep some people from the comfort or happiness they can derive from religion or from its absence.
As soon as anyone starts shoving their religion in my face, and saying it's the One True Path, I get a bit annoyed. They can't all be right, and when I hear anyone say "But I AM right, and everyone else is wrong," entsichere ich meinen Browning. (I release the safety catch on my pistol). THAT'S where you get the fighting. You sometimes need to fight for freedom from religion as well as freedom of religion.
Cheers,
R.
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,
For he today, who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother,
Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition,
And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap, whilst any speak, who fought with us,
upon St Crespin's day!
For he today, who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother,
Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition,
And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap, whilst any speak, who fought with us,
upon St Crespin's day!
