Thread: The Fall of Man
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Old 01-23-2008, 09:20 AM   #31 (permalink)
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If every brick did what it wanted ... we would have no buildings.
Is this actually true?
Or do we just have a low opinion of bricks?
hahahahaha , Romansh thanks for the back support :P

Pretty nice bricks if you ask me, I dunno.

In response to AB517, Could you elaborate a little further? What are we having a tiff about?
First: who is this Campbell guy? I see his name a lot.

The tiff:

Some people focus on the individual too much. So my brick comment was just an example used to show that if bricks were to arrange themselves in any orientation, brick buildings would be that much harder to build.

Romash’s comment was good because maybe the bricks are inherently good little bricks and did what bricks are supposed to do (In this analogy anyway). Or, if you like, bricks are more like animals and just “did” what they “do” … be bricks. Either way, the wall gets made.

For me the scale tips toward the “many”. We are people …not person.

This is a tricky notion to be sure. I do believe that once we do our duty as individuals it becomes the responsibility of the group to help the individual.

The strength of the wolf is in the pack. The strength of the pack is in the wolf.

The hard part is what happens when one falls. What if the group is acting irresponsibly?

Look to George Washington for some guidance.

He realized the importance of his role. He knew at times he had to act for the Good of the group. He also saw, when the time came; it was time for one man to take control or take actions help the “one man”,
This level of life takes huge understanding and I beat less than 10% of the population understands this. I come from an academic and engineering background that brought me in contact with some “high power” players and I have meet very few that understand this. I had people tell me “I never saw a person with such repur with his “people”. I used to tell then to “kick the “YOU” out of yourself and you WILL be better than me.

WOW what babble , I think I am going through a mid life crisis here.
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