2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBERNIE: "What HE Said."
https://twitter.com/AndyMarlette/status/643471639724879872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
He added: It is not very complicated.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/14/bernie-sanders-makes-rare-appeal-to-evangelicals-at-liberty-university/?_r=0
daleanime
(17,796 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Bernie, I love you so much...
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)I still don't think he has a snowball's chance in Morocco of defeating HRC, but it would be nice
retrowire
(10,345 posts)Skwmom
(12,685 posts)mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)of a kinder America where the golden rule rules.
Now, there's a commercial for liberals!
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)Great post!
also there is more . love thy neighbor as thy self . to the point mr sanders
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)It also does not involve a god or any kind of supernatural anything.
Unfortunately it can still be hard to accomplish.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)Thank you, Senator Sanders!
zeemike
(18,998 posts)It is more logical than theological.
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)It's always been a matter of common sense for me.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)or belief system. The xtians did not invent it.
Confucianism
"Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself." This was one of the guiding principles of life that Confucius taught his followers, five centuries before Jesus taught the Golden Rule with similar words.
Brahmanism
Brahmanism is a form of Hinduism, so perhaps this version of the Golden Rule applies to all forms of Hinduism, or perhaps not. The version of the Golden Rule in Brahmanism is, "This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you" (Mahabharata 5:5157).
This version of the Golden Rule is not actually telling us to do good to others, but only not to do bad to others.
Buddhism
In Buddhism, the Golden Rule is expressed this way: "Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful" (Udana-Varga 5:18). Again, this version of the Golden Rule is not telling us to do good to others, but only not to hurt others.
Taoism
The Golden Rule in Taoism is expressed as, "Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain and your neighbor's loss as your own loss" (T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien).
Like Islam, this version does not require doing good to others, although it does encourage not doing bad to others. It is a completely passive rule that speaks more to not being jealous or overly competitive than how you should actually treat your neighbor.
Zoroastrianism
In Zoroastrianism, the Golden Rule is expressed as, "That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself" (Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5).
Like Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and Confucianism, Zoroastrianism does not encourage doing good for others, it only encourages not doing bad to others.
Baha'i
The Baha'i version of the golden rule is, "Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself."
Like Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Confucianism and Zoroastrianism, this does not encourage doing good for others, only not doing bad to others.
I obtained this Baha'i version of the golden rule from a poster I found on bahaiforums.com. We had neglected to mention the Baha'i version of it until a reader wrote in requesting that we add the Baha'i golden rule to this list.
However, the reader had quoted a different text, "Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth."
Source:http://www.compassdistributors.ca/topics/golden.htm
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And it shows that there are some fundamental truths. and that is one when dealing with human nature and the human experience.
We error when we discount our human nature.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I was born one of nature's skeptics and can never be a utopian, because I know human nature must always be taken into account. And human nature is a mixed bag of good and bad impulses.
"Politics is the search for proximate solutions to insoluble problems." - Reinhold Niebuhr
0rganism
(23,957 posts)Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals:
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law."
(also known as the "Categorical Imperative"
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Nice catch!
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)My Twitter is filled with attacks on him from the right and the middle-of-the-road Dems.
And, the criticisms are juvenile and/or easy to refute.
Been doing it most of the morning.
AwakeAtLast
(14,130 posts)Second time I have posted that this week.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,365 posts)Thanks for the thread, kpete.