Common Ground

[Artevelde]

What does a Fundamentalist Christian, a Catholic, a Mormon, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, an atheist, an agnostic all have in common?

All are human beings. All want to be happy and avoid suffering. We all breathe the same air.

I thought it might be refreshing to talk about what we all share in common, rather than our differences.

Your thoughts? Let's talk about common ground.

They will all die and be judged by God.

 

[Artevelde]

I dunno if I agree with the common ground, lots of people don't want to be happy.

I think it is the nature of living beings to seek comfort and avoid discomfort.

You're pretty intolerant towards masochists then?

 

[Sky Dancer]

What does a Fundamentalist Christian, a Catholic, a Mormon, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, an atheist, an agnostic all have in common?

All are human beings. All want to be happy and avoid suffering. We all breathe the same air.

I thought it might be refreshing to talk about what we all share in common, rather than our differences.

Your thoughts? Let's talk about common ground.

They will all die and be judged by God.

We will all die. That much is certain.

 

[Dr.Drock]

I dunno if I agree with the common ground, lots of people don't want to be happy.

I think it is the nature of living beings to seek comfort and avoid discomfort.

I dunno, some want to dominate. And if someone has a desire to dominate they'll never end up happy because no pure level of dominance can be achieved.

 

[amrchaos]

What does a Fundamentalist Christian, a Catholic, a Mormon, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, an atheist, an agnostic all have in common?

All are human beings. All want to be happy and avoid suffering. We all breathe the same air.

I thought it might be refreshing to talk about what we all share in common, rather than our differences.

Your thoughts? Let's talk about common ground.

I just wish the fundamentalists would allow those who don't follow to do so in peace. I mean remember the crusades? Or how about modern day strict sharia muslims calling for the death of all non-followers?

That stuff is bad.


They all believe in God, well their versions of God, so I guess they share that

Some fundementalist do. Just that they do not wish bothered with you, because well, you are sinful and could influence them.

 

[Avatar4321]

More common ground: We are all children of a loving God, whether we recognize and accept it or not.

 

[Avatar4321]

I dunno if I agree with the common ground, lots of people don't want to be happy.

I think it is the nature of living beings to seek comfort and avoid discomfort.

“Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God” (Joseph Smith Jr. - History of the Church, 5:134–35).

 

[Avatar4321]

What does a Fundamentalist Christian, a Catholic, a Mormon, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, an atheist, an agnostic all have in common?

All are human beings. All want to be happy and avoid suffering. We all breathe the same air.

I thought it might be refreshing to talk about what we all share in common, rather than our differences.

Your thoughts? Let's talk about common ground.

They will all die and be judged by God.

We will all die. That much is certain.

They will all be taxed. That is even more certain than death.

 

[Sky Dancer]

They will all die and be judged by God.

We will all die. That much is certain.

They will all be taxed. That is even more certain than death.

Death is more certain than taxes.

 

[Sky Dancer]

More common ground: We are all children of a loving God, whether we recognize and accept it or not.

No, we don't have common ground in your statement. Your statement allows common ground only with theists.

We are all human. We breathe the same air. Death is a certainty. We, as human, have the rare ability to reflect on death and dying.

 

[Avatar4321]

More common ground: We are all children of a loving God, whether we recognize and accept it or not.

No, we don't have common ground in your statement. Your statement allows common ground only with theists.

We are all human. We breathe the same air. Death is a certainty. We, as human, have the rare ability to reflect on death and dying.

The truth doesnt change just because you dont accept it. We are children of God.

 

[Cenotaph]

More common ground: We are all children of a loving God, whether we recognize and accept it or not.

No, we don't have common ground in your statement. Your statement allows common ground only with theists.

We are all human. We breathe the same air. Death is a certainty. We, as human, have the rare ability to reflect on death and dying.

The truth doesnt change just because you dont accept it. We are children of God.

 

[revschriner]

The truly great gap is not between belief and unbelief. It is between those who dedicate their lives to a greater purpose and those who care little for the common good.

 

[revschriner]

Another commonality: Paradoxically, people who disagree about religion may have “negative” factors in common such as their own weaknesses. For example, two people who quarrel about theology may each have unrealistic confidence in their own judgments: “I am obviously correct, and anyone who disagrees with me is either malicious or confused.” Someone who seems like our opposite may actually be our mirror image. So when a theist and an atheist shout, “Go to Hell!” at each other, the main difference may be that the atheist is cursing but the theist is suggesting a literal destination! -- Roger Christan Schriner

 

[Skull Pilot]

I dunno if I agree with the common ground, lots of people don't want to be happy.

I think it is the nature of living beings to seek comfort and avoid discomfort.

Actually people will purposely seek discomfort if the perceived reward is great enough.

Did Lewis and Clark seek to avoid discomfort?
Columbus?
Marco Polo?
Galileo?

If these people's sole goal was to avoid discomfort then they failed miserably and in doing so they all achieved great accomplishments. Seems that the lack of historical accomplishments by Buddhists is explained by their avoidance of discomfort

 

[Sky Dancer]

More common ground: We are all children of a loving God, whether we recognize and accept it or not.

No, we don't have common ground in your statement. Your statement allows common ground only with theists.

We are all human. We breathe the same air. Death is a certainty. We, as human, have the rare ability to reflect on death and dying.

The truth doesnt change just because you dont accept it. We are children of God.

We aren't children of God. That's a belief, an opinion. You think you're the only source of truth on the planet. Your opinion=absolute truth. Bull.

 

[revschriner]

Paradoxically, people who disagree about religion may be connected by negative factors such as their own weaknesses. For example, two people who quarrel about theology may each have unrealistic confidence in their own judgments: “I am obviously correct, and anyone who disagrees with me is either malicious or confused.” Someone who seems like our opposite may actually be our mirror image. So when a theist and an atheist shout, “Go to Hell!” at each other, the main difference may be that the atheist is cursing but the theist is suggesting a literal destination!

 

[Wry Catcher]

What does a Fundamentalist Christian, a Catholic, a Mormon, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, an atheist, an agnostic all have in common?

All are human beings. All want to be happy and avoid suffering. We all breathe the same air.

I thought it might be refreshing to talk about what we all share in common, rather than our differences.

Your thoughts? Let's talk about common ground.

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
He's been a soldier for a thousand years.

He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

 

[Wry Catcher]

And he's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the USA,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

And he's fighting for Democracy,
He's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide,
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Labau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put an end to war.

 

[Marie888]

What does a Fundamentalist Christian, a Catholic, a Mormon, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, an atheist, an agnostic all have in common?

All are human beings. All want to be happy and avoid suffering. We all breathe the same air.

I thought it might be refreshing to talk about what we all share in common, rather than our differences.

Your thoughts? Let's talk about common ground.

We were all once babies growing in our mother's wombs. (some call our stage at that time - fetuses).

Though we seem to lose common ground over the the truth of how we originally started in the first place.

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