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1. Be the change you want to see ...

   I have a small farm. I used to trade rent of a $600/month apt for about 50 hours of work a month, less in the winter more in spring. It was the ideal job for a student working their way through college. They were hired as independent contractors. Initially I had very good responsible young people working for me. As time progressed I found that many were very good talkers and very poor workers. They took correction very poorly and if they didn't get what they wanted they left. As I checked with other employers, I found they were having similar problems. It was a full employment economy so there were plenty of employers looking for employees. These young people walked off the job without notice, arrived late, etc. I finally gave up hiring young people and do the chores myself. I have spent a large amount of time in the developing world. The work ethic there is amazing. Young people work side by side with parents on farms ( I disagree with the Western notion of all these children must be in school all day.) There is more to learn than classroom knowledge.What is most obvious is that not only do they enjoy work, they enjoy life. Our children have it easier and easier, are less and less responsible and less and less caring about others and less and less happy. There is a lesson here. Now that unemployment is rising, and it becomes an employers market, I wonder what will happen.

   4 weeks ago In response to Children and Chores: How Much?

2. Karma is true

   1.) I specifically said that we are entitled to our actions not the fruit of those actions. ergo The actions are not performed FOR reward, any reward whether now or in the future, physiological, material or spiritual. Rewards or positive things occur as byproducts and unequivocally are not what is sought after. I do not believe that you carefully read my post. 2.) What karma tells us is that "long run" can mean thousands of lifetimes. So the suffering we are experiencing now can be due to negative actions we performed lifetimes ago. 3)In answer to a previous post, yes we are to transcend karma, but that doesn't happen by a "spiritual bypass" where we apply situational ethics. Transcending karma requires a solid ethical foundation and then reaching a level of experience of interconnectedness of all things with great compassion. Therefore we would realize that we could be the man laying in the street, the woman driving by and even the hoodlums and therefore would be far more reluctant to pass judgment on the Samaritan. 4.) The 2 examples which were given were specific examples of how beneficial events can happen when we are NOT attached to the results of our actions. Had Fleming been attached to the results of his actions he would have thrown out his petri dishes of bacteria as his experiment had been contaminated. Instead of getting upset, he looked at what had happened and notice that the mold had inhibited bacterial growth and then discovered penicillin. Furchgott's assistant made a lab error, if Furchgott was attached to the results, then he would have yelled at the lab assistant for screwing up. Instead he studied what happened and realized that the endothelium was involved, The results brought him the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

   4 months, 3 weeks ago In response to Just Rewards: Banking On It?

3. Pointing the Blame Elsewhere

   This is a classic we see acted out almost daily in our society. In order to abrogate responsibility for their actions, people point the blame elsewhere or lie. In this case on the good Samaritan. For all of the reasons previously mentioned the woman who stopped to help is to be lauded. Many would not have. The judge should have not even entertained the motion.

   4 months, 3 weeks ago In response to Samaritan or Killer?

Define what responsibility means to you.