Any quotes to back up your arguments?
2007-12-31 06:58:34 · 22 answers · asked by j_emmans 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
wow great quote, and we all have the right to be fools.
2007-12-31 07:07:09 · update #1
yes judge by who we are not what we own is a good quote - Martin Luther made a similar statement - 'judge people by the content of their character not the colour of their skin'
2007-12-31 08:18:23 · update #2
many people do live without possessions by choice and I have met / know many in countries all over the world. The pope has no possessions!
2007-12-31 09:57:40 · update #3
Possession varies in strength according to personal connection. Some material possessions tend not to matter very much to most people, such as a paper bag for groceries or a piece of chewing gum, but even there it may become personally important, if for example it was the last piece of gum your child chewed before she was killed in a road accident or it was the first paper bag containing groceries for you and the love of your life. On the whole, though, there isn't much personal connection with such ephemera. There are also possessions with much stronger physical presence such as houses, old clothes, cars and garden plants. These can be insignificant to the owners or have negative connotations, such as the prison cell you stayed in for twenty years of your life or a house you lived in as a child of a seriously dysfunctional family, or more neutrally, the photocopier you use for your own business or the furniture you use at school. Some of these examples are less clearly your own possessions than others.
Some things have much closer personal connections for most people, such as clothes, jewellery, and even more so body parts, and more intimately still, one's own memories, thoughts and feelings. It isn't clear if any line can be drawn. When people are burgled, they tend to say the violation is more important than the loss of their possessions, but that means they have an emotional investment in their possessions. Personal space might also be a possession.
I certainly think possessions tend to be an evil, but there are degrees and it's hard to imagine what life would be like if we all assumed the thoughts and feelings we experienced didn't belong to us. That would be a threat to identity and quite an intimate violation. It would also mean that rape would be defined out of existence, and it would be wrong to see the world in this way.
Therefore, i would want to draw a distinction between abstract possessions, possessions which have personal significance and possessions which are merely material and whose enjoyment would violate the interests of others. Material possessions can have inappropriate emotional investment. Possessions with a more emotionally refined significance are another matter entirely, and mental property is a privileged thing. Even here, though, there can be some argument, because there are people or organisations who unfairly exploit the notion of intellectual property, and there are more communally owned cultural products, such as folk songs, quilts made by groups of people for weddings and leaving presents bought by everyone in a workplace for a valued colleague. However, i think there has to be some legitimate claim to ownership, though ironically probably these are often the wrong way round.
2007-12-31 07:45:20 · answer #1 · answered by grayure 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sounds to me as in case you have some evil entity messing with you. they are actual and that they are going to do something to weaken you. I even have seen those issues first hand, regardless of my very own son. you're able to desire to wish to God, in Jesus' call, to guard you from this evil. have faith with all your coronary heart that God will furnish help to. bear in mind, God is greater than they. They worry His call. in case you have God on your factor, evil can't abide there. If all else fails, see a clergyman, or pastor. you're able to be able to choose your place blessed. yet for goodness sake, end dabbling in the black arts. that's no humorous tale, that's for actual. you do no longer desire to bypass there. God Bless.
2016-10-02 23:38:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The more you possess the more you have to lose.
My Father had a quotation -
"A man`s life consisteth not in the abundance of things he possesseth"
2008-01-01 04:02:59 · answer #3 · answered by jay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things and possessions are neutral in themselves...how we use or posess them is important. No argument ..just a comment. I use to use explosives in mining...is explosives a bad thing in itself.
2007-12-31 09:22:21 · answer #4 · answered by elmri14 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's all very nice living in fairyland - but you try living without any possessions.
2007-12-31 08:55:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possessing something can be positive or negative.
Being possessed by something or someone is often 'evil'.
2007-12-31 08:02:29 · answer #6 · answered by jimgdad 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evil or not, everyone is `judged' by what they have.
Material posessions are not everything
Some people are poor monetary wise but possess more caring and compassion than the ones that think they have it all because they have fancy` toys', when they have nothing.
` Don't judge someone by what they have, judge them by what they` ARE.' [ quote by Steve]
2007-12-31 07:50:21 · answer #7 · answered by goalaska 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be a mentalist... my Aladdin's lamp with genie is my prized possession !
2007-12-31 07:50:07 · answer #8 · answered by inskinonbike 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Psychology. Mind over matter. Mind under matter? It doesn't matter. Never mind.
2007-12-31 07:20:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Possessions are not an evil. For the most part they are a necessity. House, clothes, fridge, stove, car for transportation. There are parts in ones life where possessions are a necessity, not an evil.
As for your rights to your own possessions well ...you have to earn them just like anyone else.
2007-12-31 07:10:05 · answer #10 · answered by the old dog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋