chimera wrote Today at 4:19pm:


Instinctive animal behaviour is not driven by moral considerations.  No duck ever say, 'bugger it, I'm going fishing instead". No elephant identifies as a giraffe or a meercat.

The point of morality is rooted in freedom - you could act otherwise.

chimera wrote Today at 4:43pm:

Idiot.

chimera wrote Today at 5:17pm:

I have.

Reason and freedom that comes with it.

We have them (not you, perhaps), animals don't.

A moral act is the freely chosen expression of ideal behaviour within a given context. It could be mowing the lawns of the old lady next door, or helping an old lady cross the road, or even a chicken, or in a specific context, it could be the old lady throwing herself onto her husband’s funeral pyre.

"What rights do you have?"

It seems to me, that the quality of my 'rights' [living in Australia],
were more tangible and real 50 years ago, than my 'rights' are today.

Why is that so ?



But aside from the above......
My creator endowed me with a right,
to live [within this house of clay],
until the day that i will die.

My creator endowed me with a right, during my sojourn here,
to make [many] choices [and He also enabled me, to observe and ponder the consequences of my choices],
until the day that i die.

And also......for me to either celebrate those choices i made, or, on reflection, to repent of them.


Yadda, is a repenter.


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Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God
led thee these forty years in the wilderness,
to humble thee, and to prove thee,
to know what was in thine heart,
whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.


Psalms 119:45
And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
46  I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings,
and will not be ashamed.
47  And I will delight myself in thy commandments,
which I have loved.
48  My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved;
and I will meditate in thy statutes.


Psalms 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep;
seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.


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[Jesus said]....
John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.


Matthew 19:17
[Jesus said].....if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
18  He saith unto him, Which?
Jesus said,
Thou shalt do no murder,
Thou shalt not commit adultery,
Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not bear false witness,
19  Honour thy father and thy mother: and,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.


John 15:10
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;
even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.


Psalms 119:1
Blessed are the undefiled in the way,
who walk in the law of the LORD.


Why ???

Why are those who   'walk in the law of the LORD'   deemed to be, 'blessed' ???