Re: American and British (English)

Jim Karatassos wrote:

Steve Hayes wrote:
CDB wrote:

There is an article, contrasting classical, Christian, and
post-Enlightenment views of pity and mercy, that might be of interest
here (too bad it didn't discuss the Muslim view as well), at:

http://www.incharacter.org/article.php?article=107.

Interesting article. Thanks.

Agreed.


A very interesting article which is riddled with
logical fallacies.

Problem with the Templeton Foundation is this foundation
is an ultra right wing Christian evangelist creationism
outfit with a goal of destroying science and logic.

Can an emotion be a virtue? Yes, if the
keynote of virtue is naturalness in the
sense of spontaneity or authenticity. No,
if what defines virtue is the perfection
of our nature through the triumph of reason
over passion.

- Clifford Orwin

Right there it is, a supposition emotion is The Good
and reason is The Evil. This is his premise.

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During writing of this article, Coyote reminds me of
the virtue of reason, and the ludicrous nature of
emotion. Coyote is always messing with me.

A phone call interrupts my flow of words. I am
currently very angry yet reason rules my mind.

Some tenants are bugging us to install an air
conditioning unit in a bedroom. House is air
conditioned save for one bedroom. Currently
we are involved in refurbishing a house for
tenants who just moved into this house. This has
top priority. An air conditioner can wait.

These tenants have lived in our house for a
number of years, never complained about a lack
of an air conditioner in this single bedroom.

What changed? Wife is pregnant. All of a sudden
they want new carpet, permission to paint different
colors and, an air conditioner for their baby who
is not due for months to come. They want to fix up
this bedroom for their new baby. Whoo Hooo!

We allow these people to operate a day care center
in our rental home. They are using our home to make
money. Our rent fee is very low, hundreds of dollars
below average, we have never raised their rent. We
attend to "real" problems same day, always. She drives
a Mercedes Benz, he drives a new SUV. Lots of fancy
furniture, big television, cell phone, all the toys.

They never pay their rent on time and frequently write
us bad checks. They are using us as a credit card.

Boy calls, "When are you going to install our air
conditioner?" He calls twice a week for more than
month.

I explain we are very busy making a home livable
for their friends, good Christians, they sent to
us, asked us to rent to their friends because we
keep rent low and are excellent landlords.

"You always say that, too busy right now."

My response, "Yeah, so what? With your not being
happy, move somewhere else."

He tells me, "That's not fair!"

I tell him, "About as fair as your never paying
your rent on time and writing us bad checks."

He wimps out and hangs up.

Wife calls, starts lecturing me. She is mad, she
is laying into me, she is thirty years younger
than us, "You can't talk to my husband that way."

No reasoning at all on her part. I say, "Yeah, I can,
I just did and I will talk to you the same way."

She interrupts, continues her spoiled child rant.

I jump in, "Shutup you stupid bitch. We are busy working
for your friends. We would be motivated to bring you an
air conditioner if you would pay your rent on time and
stop writing us bad checks, you ignorant ***."

She claims, "We have never written you a bad check. We
always make good on our rent."

I think of this stack of bad checks we have in our file
for them, "I have a stack of your bad checks in your file
you shithead."

"No, we made good on our rent. We never wrote a bad check."

She exceeds my limit for tolerance, "Fine, I will bring you
an eviction notice today," and I hang up on her. When finished
here, I will fill out an eviction notice.

Day care center, poof! Gone, and gone is more than half
of their income. Upon eviction, they will suffer an income
cut of more than half. Tough *** and good luck affording
a new, a significantly more expensive place to live.

All this over an air conditioner for a baby room, for a
baby yet to come, a baby who will prove expensive.

"Oh, we are pregnant! We must fix up a nursery, we must
paint pretty colors, new carpet, buy a fancy crib, lots
of toys, gobs of baby clothes, bottles, diapers, and above
all, an air conditioner paid for by our landlords! Forget
our writing bad checks, we must spend, spend, spend!"

Clifford Orwin would admonish me I am not chasing the
virtue of compassion, "This poor family, baby on the way
and you are kicking them out. You are not a good Christian."

*** that. I am a pagan Indian business woman not a charity
organization guided by the almighty hand of God.

Here is the deal. Those tenants are not using good reasoning,
which is known to me as common sense, they are not reasoning
rather are appealing to compassion, our compassion. They expect
us to be as excited about their baby as they are.

They are not reasoning, "We are always late with our rent, we
write bad checks, maybe we should keep our arrogant mouths shut.
Maybe we should buy our own air conditioner."

Oh no! They are good Christians. Compassion is the rule! Overlook
our indiscretions for we know not what we do.

Bull***. Pay your God damn rent on time and stop writing bad checks.

Reason, common sense, always trumps emotion. Compassion is not a
virtue, compassion is leading yourself by the nose to folly.

Reason and logic is a virtue. Emotion is fool's fodder.

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Thirty minutes have passed. She has not called back. I am
sure she will begin crying when I hand her an eviction notice
later today. She should have reasoned, rather than go all
psychotic emotional. This day will *** up their lives for
a very long time to come. That is what emotion gets you.

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Purl Gurl
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So many are stumped by what slips right off the top of my mind
like a man's bad fitting hairpiece.
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