| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Fundamental Truth | | Date: | Sunday, August 28, 2005 15:53:26 (-0600) | | From: | Martin Hattersley <hattersleyjm @.........com>
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| In reply to: | Message 2605 (written by Kenneth Palmerton) |
Isn't one of the problems of modern economics that its model of "economic
man" (who shops at Wal-mart and is ready to sell his grandmother to the
highest bidder) is used both as a paragon of economic virtue, and as a model
of how the human race actually behaves. The Enron and similar scandals show
us where this kind of approach ends up.
Thank goodness that there are those who, for reasons of morality and maybe
common sense, are prepared to be "uneconomic"!
Martin Hattersley
1970-10123-99 St.,
EDMONTON AB CANADA
e-mail: hattersleyjm@interbaun.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Palmerton" <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
Cc: <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Fundamental Truth
> In-Reply-To: <20050827161726.39566.qmail@web60518.mail.yahoo.com>
> Sorry, but I cannot work out who wrote this.
>
> However, I agree entirely. What is being described ARE traditions. And as
> an individual discussing faith with many various groups over the years I
> am struck by the strong adherence to traditions that divide us one from
> another.
>
> An adherence that has led us to war and worse. For why? Is there something
> about humankind that makes us vulnerable to what I rationalise as the
> exercise of untold power over families, tribes, and nations, that
> overcomes rational thought about why it is that we are prepared to condemn
> someone who "Is not one of us".
>
> I can understand an individual undertaking some particular task
> voluntarily, or believing some particular doctrine as a matter of personal
> acceptance and discipline. And to pick out just one issue amongst many, I
> have had debate with both Jewish, and Muslim friends on things like
> circumcision.
>
> To my mind there is no logical justification for what to me is mutilation.
> Yes I have, I think, heard ALL the rationalisations about this brutal act.
> But what I can never find courage to condemn is the choice of some to
> undertake it as a matter of obedience to what they fervently believe they
> are bidden to do.
>
> For me God is a logical caring entity. Anything, particularly instructions
> that have come down to us, for me, has had a logical reason. AT THE TIME.
> That time MAY have passed. I am sure you can imagine the debates had with
> others about unchangeability.
>
> I have, I think, mentioned in an earlier post about my finding it easier
> to understand WHAT IS MEANT, even when I did not fully understand what was
> actually said or written. Or what others SAID was said or written.
>
> And for me this discussion of divine belief is critical to how we organise
> the means to create and share wealth. The victory of the economists in the
> 1930s concerning the relationship of morality to economics is
> unacceptable.
>
> I just do not see how they got away with it :-(((
>
> Ken.
>
>
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