What causes YOU to be a good person?

[cnm]

Personally, I find a person affirming their own goodness to be ridiculous.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Commendable, but what/who caused you to be that way in the first place? It had to take root someway.

I had a pretty solid upbringing myself. I am also pretty observant. When you see people screwing up, you ask yourself "how did that happen?' - and what can I do to not repeat what they did?
And I was not always this way. I became a better person by my late 20s.

 

[FoghornLeghorn]

I wouldn't know as I'm not a good person.

 

[cnm]

I wouldn't know as I'm not a good person.

Sorry, need a second opinion.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Back to my original point: Where did those moms and dads get their rules that made them "good people"? Rules like "Thou shalt no kill", "Thou shalt not steal", "Thou shalt no commit adultery", etc?

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I have to say that the greater impetus for me did not come from my home environment, because I have siblings who grew up in the same environment, to be horrible people.

Have to say good teachers in grade school. I had a little bit of exposure to religion, but my siblings had the same.

It remains a mystery to me.

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[iamwhatiseem]

Personally, I find a person affirming their own goodness to be ridiculous.

or you have little to say?

 

[1srelluc]

Back to my original point: Where did those moms and dads get their rules that made them "good people"? Rules like "Thou shalt no kill", "Thou shalt not steal", "Thou shalt no commit adultery", etc?

Someone should write them all down a make a book about them. I bet it would be a best seller.

Sadly such a book would be panned by leftist "critics" as "the pathetic ramblings of old people living in the past".

 

[1srelluc]

Personally, I find a person affirming their own goodness to be ridiculous.

Be true to thine own self.

If you don't consider yourself to be a good person then just say so.....It's not that you would lack for company in this world.....Or the next.

 

[sparky]

I had a pretty solid upbringing myself.

I'm one of 3 brothers raised by a WW2 combat vet

i should be thankful....especially on this day......

~S~

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I'm one of 3 brothers raised by a WW2 combat vet

i should be thankful....especially on this day......

~S~

Both my grandparents served in WW II, three uncles in Vietnam.
My father was in the army, but not in war time.
But that don't have anything to do with being a good or bad person.
Plenty of people who served are still assholes. You appreciate what they did for damn sure, but it doesn't absolve them for being a jerk.

 

[eagle1462010]

I'm one of 3 brothers raised by a WW2 combat vet

i should be thankful....especially on this day......

~S~

My Father and Father N Law both served in the Navy in the Pacific. Father N Law was at Pearl Harbor.

It seems to me that their Honor and integrity is lost in this new world now. Its all about me me me. Give me Give me Give me.

They are rolling over in their graves

 

[sparky]

Both my grandparents served in WW II, three uncles in Vietnam.
My father was in the army, but not in war time.
But that don't have anything to do with being a good or bad person.
Plenty of people who served are still assholes. You appreciate what they did for damn sure, but it doesn't absolve them for being a jerk.

lol....i can vividly recall being in the back of a police cruiser as a lad w/the cop saying he knew my dad and was going to 'take me home to him' .......my reply was 'i bet you've a real nice jail"......~S~

 

[cnm]

or you have little to say?

I certainly wouldn't affirm my own goodness so in that case I'd have nothing to say.

 

[cnm]

Be true to thine own self.

If you don't consider yourself to be a good person then just say so.....It's not that you would lack for company in this world.....Or the next.

I'm ridiculous enough without adding to it.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I'm ridiculous enough without adding to it.

There it is

 

[cnm]

There it is

1srelluc will carry my self affirming load for me. He can take the ridicule, obviously.

 

[1srelluc]

lol....i can vividly recall being in the back of a police cruiser as a lad w/the cop saying he knew my dad and was going to 'take me home to him' .......my reply was 'i bet you've a real nice jail"......~S~

My dad was a cop....I never had much interest in the negative results of "Boy, if you don't listen you are gonna feel".

To be honest a disappointed look from him was a lot worse than a well deserved tanning.

 

[cnm]

My Father and Father N Law both served in the Navy in the Pacific. Father N Law was at Pearl Harbor.

It seems to me that their Honor and integrity is lost in this new world now. Its all about me me me. Give me Give me Give me.

They are rolling over in their graves

What a load. My father's honour and integrity certainly isn't lost.

 

[1srelluc]

What a load. My father's honour and integrity certainly isn't lost.

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Check-out that theater-made knife!

 

[cnm]

My father seemed happy enough with it to carry the weight.