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Seems like a wise course of actionI am literally done with this.
Seems like a wise course of actionI am literally done with this.
You have no way to help me here. Semantics aren't your thing.As if helping you get your definitions correct is a lack of self control?
Words overlap in there meanings without negating the other. Like someone can be described as both a jerk and a wimp. The commonality being an inability to modulate the ego.I think you're thinking of "lewdness" with regard to the public beach, which is doing sexual things publicly.
At it's core lechery is pursuit of sexual desire despite other priorities. Yes one priority missed by a common lech is marital status. A married lech wants an orgasm more than his wife's love and respect.Lechery carries with it the connotation of promiscuity, which doesn't apply for old couples who still like to enjoy each other.
Yes, really. I've been reading the whole thread and I've not seen anyone make the claim that Rusha says that they made.What? Seriously? Try reading through this thread again when the talk of rape started.
That would be when we started talking about the bananahead's thread entitled Is Marital Rape Scripturally Defensible, post 15... when the talk of rape started ...
Requesting things from people you helped ban must be gratifying.Yes, really. I've been reading the whole thread and I've not seen anyone make the claim that Rusha says that they made.
If you can show me, please do.
You are a liar. I helped nobody get banned.Requesting things from people you helped ban must be gratifying.
Okay. My bad.You are a liar. I helped nobody get banned.
P.S. I replied to a post. I did not know the "banned status" of the user that I responded to.
I don't have time for fragility especially since it can be addressed. It's not my fault if you don't address it. And it's not going to stop me or even slow me down; I don't have time for that, like I said.We end up with a whole lot of sore feelings and a whole bunch of people banned. Just like last time.
Not the KJV. That's Protty.Considered Canon for Catholic and Eastern Orthodox.
That's not; that's never the answer.Apparently, when that husband had failed to convince his wife and he'd forgotten how to masturbate ....
The I want to say public morality of the American founders was based on rights, an idea borrowed from the ancient Romans who recognized and acknowledged that there were special laws attached or borne by people just for being a human being, these special laws came to be called rights at some point, before John Locke wrote about them in the 1600s.You make it sound like the conscience is trustworthy. But if Christians need to "walk in the spirit" to produce love joy peace patience kindness goodness gentleness and self-control, how are non-believers going to be able to do those things? Artie said adultery might be permissible in some circumstances. He didn't want to talk about homosexuality being wrong. How much can you trust the conscience of an unbeliever?
That only follows if, and that's a big 'if' nowadays, the husband is chaste.Lechery has no component of mutual consent in any definition I've found. Like this from dictionary.com:
"unrestrained or excessive indulgence of sexual desire."
"Within marriage" is a restraint, therefore you can't be monogamously lecherous. ...
I much prefer sources to personally felt semantics. I'd appreciate a source for yours (like a dictionary citation, perhaps).You have no way to help me here. Semantics aren't your thing.
Words overlap in there meanings without negating the other. Like someone can be described as both a jerk and a wimp. The commonality being an inability to modulate the ego.
At it's core lechery is pursuit of sexual desire despite other priorities. Yes one priority missed by a common lech is marital status. A married lech wants an orgasm more than his wife's love and respect.
So don't be a jerk or a wimp, and keep your lecherous thoughts to yourself.
"Chaste" and "monogamous" are describing the same thing.That only follows if, and that's a big 'if' nowadays, the husband is chaste.
My tactic was to compare the "inner moral compass" on slightly different subjects--like adultery and homosexuality. If it begins to fail in one area related to sex, why would we trust it in other areas related to sex. And when it begins to fail, it needs to be regrounded by comparison with a trustworthy standard. Human law codes work the same way--as long as they are grounded on a superior standard (not just from humans), they will so well.The I want to say public morality of the American founders was based on rights, an idea borrowed from the ancient Romans who recognized and acknowledged that there were special laws attached or borne by people just for being a human being, these special laws came to be called rights at some point, before John Locke wrote about them in the 1600s.
I've argued that the self-evident nature of rights comes from a Christian moral principle, Thou shalt love your neighbor as yourself. By this standard what are called 'mala in se' crimes, roughly meaning evil or wicked or wrong inherently, ipso facto, are self-evident, and rights against 'mala in se' crimes are some of the so-called natural or inalienable or human rights. Rights against 'mala in se' crimes.
Just so long as a human recognizes all the same rights that we acknowledge, then we can trust their conscience, but it's almost trivial to say so, mainly just because these crimes, and so the rights against them, are self-evident. They don't have to be a Christian or believe in God to agree with us what constitutes a 'mala in se' crime and that we all possess irrevocably the absolute rights against these crimes being perpetrated against us.
Maybe to you but not in the modern sense of the word. You have to specify chastity otherwise what lots of otherwise monogamous husbands do is consume pornography and self-gratify, which is not chaste."Chaste" and "monogamous" are describing the same thing.
Because of consent. And bodily autonomy. And ethical independence (the right to the pursuit of happiness). All very important, but separate issues from chastity.My tactic was to compare the "inner moral compass" on slightly different subjects--like adultery and homosexuality. If it begins to fail in one area related to sex, why would we trust it in other areas related to sex.
But atheists have to have morality too, and they're not and they don't admit of any divine lawgiver, so how do you ground their morality? And if you can answer that question, then we can talk about a common morality, a public morality. For the American founders that morality was based on what they described as inalienable God-given rights, but atheists don't have to believe in the God-given part just so long as they believe in the alienable one.And when it begins to fail, it needs to be regrounded by comparison with a trustworthy standard. Human law codes work the same way--as long as they are grounded on a superior standard (not just from humans), they will [do] well.
Atheism is particularly noxious with regard to morality, because their only bases for it are personal opinion and history, which is interpreted by their personal opinion. Even their primary creation myth describes their lawless morality: survival of the fittest. That's exactly why we need to ground morality in something better than humanistic "ideals".Because of consent. And bodily autonomy. And ethical independence (the right to the pursuit of happiness). All very important, but separate issues from chastity.
But atheists have to have morality too, and they're not and they don't admit of any divine lawgiver, so how do you ground their morality? And if you can answer that question, then we can talk about a common morality, a public morality. For the American founders that morality was based on what they described as inalienable God-given rights, but atheists don't have to believe in the God-given part just so long as they believe in the alienable one.
You can't provide scriptural support for this statement of yours, so let's revisit it.Constancy is for those in the child bearing years not to please dirty old men in their declining days.