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<blockquote data-quote="o_mlly" data-source="post: 77661721" data-attributes="member: 434838"><p>Human nature does not change any more than the natural laws of physics change. Our affections and attitudes may change but our nature as willing, thinking, and feeling beings does not.</p><p></p><p>? I've posted several times the basis for making our moral choices. Our <em>affections</em> determine our <em>attitudes,</em> and our attitudes determine our <em>behaviors</em>. Perhaps an example will help you. Yesterday I watched the first hour of an old movie called "Deep Impact". </p><p></p><p>A character in the movie is portrayed as a despicable husband who is cheating on his wife, who in her grief turns to alcohol and subsequently suffers a nervous breakdown. Her husband has had a private telephone line installed in his home office. When the phone rings, he goes into his office and closes the door. Once, when the phone rang in his absence, she picked up and no one replied to her, "Hello". This has been going on for a year. She often overhears him on that phone talking with someone named "Ellie". </p><p></p><p>What affection would you have for such a man? What attitude do you form regarding him? No affection and a negative attitude, right?</p><p></p><p>Now you learn that he is actually a member of the President's cabinet, and he has been talking to the President on this private line. They are not talking about "Ellie but an "E.L.E."<em>, Extinction Level Event</em>. The President has commanded that his cabinet remain silent regarding these conversations so as to not alarm the public until a solution to the impending impact is in place.</p><p></p><p>Have you changed your affection for this character? Have you altered your attitude toward him? Yes. So too, will your behavior now change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="o_mlly, post: 77661721, member: 434838"] Human nature does not change any more than the natural laws of physics change. Our affections and attitudes may change but our nature as willing, thinking, and feeling beings does not. ? I've posted several times the basis for making our moral choices. Our [I]affections[/I] determine our [I]attitudes,[/I] and our attitudes determine our [I]behaviors[/I]. Perhaps an example will help you. Yesterday I watched the first hour of an old movie called "Deep Impact". A character in the movie is portrayed as a despicable husband who is cheating on his wife, who in her grief turns to alcohol and subsequently suffers a nervous breakdown. Her husband has had a private telephone line installed in his home office. When the phone rings, he goes into his office and closes the door. Once, when the phone rang in his absence, she picked up and no one replied to her, "Hello". This has been going on for a year. She often overhears him on that phone talking with someone named "Ellie". What affection would you have for such a man? What attitude do you form regarding him? No affection and a negative attitude, right? Now you learn that he is actually a member of the President's cabinet, and he has been talking to the President on this private line. They are not talking about "Ellie but an "E.L.E."[I], Extinction Level Event[/I]. The President has commanded that his cabinet remain silent regarding these conversations so as to not alarm the public until a solution to the impending impact is in place. Have you changed your affection for this character? Have you altered your attitude toward him? Yes. So too, will your behavior now change. [/QUOTE]
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