What Matters Most in Life? | 5 Minute Video
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- What is the most important thing in life? Money? Happiness? Love? Those things are certainly important, but what matters most is good values. What are values? They are what we consider more important than our feelings. For instance, just about everyone feels like eating junk food, but if you eat whatever you feel like eating you will end up obese and unhealthy. So then, what stops people from eating all the food they feel like eating? The answer is good values. Indeed a lack of good values is the root of virtually everything wrong with the world. In five minutes, learn why we should act based on values rather than our feelings.
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I'm going to talk to you about the most important thing you will ever have. Now try to guess what that might be.
For example, is it money? Well it's certainly better to have money than not to, but it's definitely not the most important thing you can have -- just ask all the rich people who are very unhappy -- or, even better, read about most of the people who have won tens of millions of dollars in a lottery. Most of these people actually became less happy, not more.
So alright, then, what about love -- is that the most important thing you could ever have? Well, love sure is important. I can't imagine living without it. I sure treasure the love of my friends and the love of my family, but if you don't have the thing I'm about to tell you, you won't receive much love at all.
So, let's try a third answer: happiness. Well, that, too, is very, very important. Who wants to be unhappy? But again, without the thing I will tell you about, there would be little happiness in the world.
So, here goes -- the most important thing you will ever have is -- drumroll please -- good values. Yes, good values. Now I know that may sound boring and I realize that it's possible that you may have never really thought about values or even know what I'm talking about.
So, let me explain. A value is something you think is more important than anything else -- more important than money, more important even than love, and even more important than happiness. And above all, values are what you consider to be more important than your feelings.
This is very hard for a lot of people to believe because we live in a time when people think that how they feel about something is more important than anything else, but that isn't so.
Here's a simple example of the conflict between a feeling and a value. Just about everyone feels like eating junk food, but there's a big problem here. If you eat whatever you feel like eating you will end up obese and unhealthy. So then, what is it that stops people from eating all the food they feel like eating? The answer is a value -- that's right, a value. And what is that value? Not getting obese and staying healthy.
There is, in other words, a necessary battle that goes on inside of most people: the battle between what they feel--in this case the desire to eat junk food -- and a value that they hold -- in this case staying healthy and looking good. Now as important as a healthy body is, this conflict between what we feel like doing and values, is even more important when it comes to doing what is right, when it comes to how we treat other people, not just ourselves.
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Damn, I had my money on Oxygen.
I laughed way too hard at this
LMFAO!
I though it was regular bowel movements.
I was going to say hope.
Bernard Crow
I hope I never run out of Oxygen.
I've lived most of my life by these core principles. It is rare to hear someone put this philosophy this clearly. It's a lonely place to be though. Not many people value values. :)
I agree! If there were more values then there would be lasting marriages, less fatherless children and a better society as a whole. Trying to find people with good values is harder than waiting for a good Samaritan to return a lost wallet. Which by the way is good values.
+ronnie Abner ur searching in the wrong country
+ronnie Abner The word value makes most people immediately think of money. (a.k.a the root of all evil) oh the irony...
true... science is also such a tool... and most science requires funding, and so the people doing the science end up working for those with the most money, and supporting their agendas... Those who have the most, have the most to lose, and that explains the military industrial complex in a nut shell.
+shamanahaboolist
I have to disagree.Not many people may share your values, but all kinds of people have conflicting values.
I would have said HEALTH. Without good health you can't really do anything nor enjoy what life has to offer, regardless if you're rich or poor.
VersionBest
Health is really important to.
But even without health, if you have good values you can recover.
+VersionBest But that would be boring. This gives us something to think about.
I think he is referring to things you can influence in your life. Some things like a brain tumor cant be avoided but with good values you can give yourself the best possible shot at being healthy and happy.
There are many unhealthy people who live better than many healthy people. You can't fully enjoy your life without values, unless you're a narcisist person who values yourself above all.
If you value this world and the people who live in it, if you want to love someone and to be loved, if there is something that you would fight and die for, then you can't enjoy your life without these values.
To have values and to live for it is the best way to live, regardless if you're poor or rich, healthy or unhealthy.
I think he tried to promote the idea that feelings are the driven forces of people's intentions and actions in today's rich materialistic world. Yes health is of course more important than money and love (he did not negate health along with money and love at the beginning though) but having good health without good value will not necessarily make you a good person if your decisions are clouded by your transient feelings. The first example about burger he gave was clearly on health, the value of your health against your feelings, which one values more. Why would people nowadays do things that will result harm on others or themselves (as shown in the examples in the video)? Thats simply because they chose to follow their feelings blindly which are very absurd and don't know when to stop. So that's the message of the video imo.
character is really important. values are important - feelings come and go like the wind -
Character is least important the ppl person character thing seperation illusion - presence is most important. Values equals what u can afford to have in life.
What matters most in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women!
Major Ramsey Blast it, I was about to say that.
Noble Ward I scanned the entire thread to see if anyone had already done it and was so excited when I didn't see it. :)
Thank you Genghis
***** Conan The Barbarian
Michael Bolton Too much Office Space for you. ;)
Today I learned that it's important to teach your dog how to swim.
Luke Riley Your hired
Luke Riley Niche market!
Luke Riley i learned to swim better so i can save the dog and the person
Luke Riley LOL !!! Thank U !!!
Zesty Tacos tt's my stand too
Although I do like the general message of this video, I don't think people kill or steal just because they 'feel' like it. There are many factors to consider. People reason, weigh the odds; people were raised differently, have different brains/chemical balances; people were born into different types of life situations, environments, and cultures. So many things influence the choices you make in life and the paths you may take.
Also, although I agree they are important to have and live by, just because you have values, doesn't mean they are necessarily 'good/bad'. People value all sorts of things differently, especially considering your particular religion/culture. In the past, people have 'valued' certain groups of humans over others... Some people may truly value all life forms equally, so perhaps they would be just as devastated by either the human or dog drowning.
Feelings influence values and vise versa.
Carolina C hello brain? Is that you?
indeed. You can't value something just because it exists if you have no feelings for it. And you can't have feelings for it if you don't value it.
Yes. Bad values do exist. That's why the video states that the most important thing in life is good values.
I can understand your comment, and probably I have similar point of view like yours. Moreover I like the content of this video enlightened us how truly important good value is.
But I got a sense that the good value in this explanation is already predetermined. That makes me afraid, since value of a thing varies depending upon circumstances, times, locations and many other factors. So how can it be objectively to good value a thing?
Since good or bad is not always clear in the first place.
Thank you my friend
this certainly doesn't apply to me. I had been spending my life to do "good values" stuff, but instead I became unhappy because I did not focus on what I actually felt and eventually I was suffering from depression.
Hi vanessa. I hope you see this now. 5 years LATER!! how is your life now.... Is this crazy to think about how you are in a totally different place right now 😊
This is BS, Countries, companies and consumers fight for power, so power is the most important thing in the world
It is important to have values that you can justify to yourself.
-Do not drink or do drugs. Why not? Harms the brain.
-Do not socialize excessively. Why not? Takes away from valuable work time.
-Be nice to anyone who is nice to you. Why? Simple reciprocity.
-Be nice to well-intentioned people. Why? They will be encouraged to help others.
If somebody tells you that something is a good value and you can't justify to it yourself through logical reasoning and scientific evidence, it's not a good value.
I can understend that but the partys are cool and drogs too, we come to this world to be happy no ? and whats metter in the life what its really wrong or what its really good? nobady knows, I think that you can do worever you what that are stigmas of sociaty ... this is MY OPINION ok and y respect your opinion i only want to know what its the correct anwser in the life .. im spanish ya
Alcohol doesn't harm brains. I know a mathematician who drank a lot over 36 years and he is still very smart scientist.
@Christina Hunt not so much also, if it is the alcohol of a satisfactory quality. My grandfather drank a lot. Really a lot. He paused from 45 y.o to 60 and then he started to drink veeeery much. Actually near his 70s he could drink about liter of vodka almost every evening. He died when he was 73 from heart attack (he hated doctors and medicine so he never did any medical examination. He never has any deal with hospitals, doctors or medicine.)
He is one person and you are basing your opinion on that? That's stupidity
Every value is justifiable, that’s what makes it their value
I would save my dog and let spiderman save the stranger.
I would watch the stranger drown.
+machida58 agreed
I like my dog better
payton richards I may even make sure that the stranger drowns. Then I would feed human do my dog.
That's funny, but sad!😖
Everybody gets one. Let's hope they haven't cashed theirs in yet.
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women." -Dennis Prager (in the age of Crom)
All he is saying is what the Bible has been teaching for thousands of years.
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9. - the Bible.
the bible also says a lot of stupid shit though
Banana Earth Name me 1!
Pee pee poo poo
The question you should ask yourself without prejudice, if you can see that far, is whether or not that statement is true. Automatically regurgitating hate for a book with no evidence except irrational and emotional attacks and using that as an argument to refute the truthfulness of a statement that book makes is circular reasoning. It is like responding to a democrat politician who says "George Bush lied about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction" by saying that Democrat is a stupid lying liberal therefore George Bush is exonerrated of pushing a false agenda.
Of course this is the most lazy and dangerous way to find truth and only avoids the original question by emotionally branding and giving oneself a false sense of being right without the effort of examining the real question.
In the original case the question should be, "Is the heart of man deceitful above all else and wicked and very difficult to understand," not dismissing the question out of hand by attacking the source, being the Bible.
In the case of my hypothetical question about Bush lying, the question should be ,"Did Bush lie about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction," not a dismissive attack on the liberal politician for making his assertion.
A person does himself/ herself no favor by lazily clinging to their beliefs, which may or may not reflect reality, without earnestly putting those said beliefs under personal cross examination of at least some form. If he or she does not honestly examine their beliefs then they put themselves at risk of believing in a imaginary world and therefore having a belief not worth believing.
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I do know some people who would save their pet rather than a human being they didn't know. Good video.
I'd save my dog and yell to the person, "hold on, I'll come to you next, just stay alive for a few more minutes!"
BooMegoo me too
This
Reasons to live
1. Because you care about the world.
2. There’s a lot to live for.
3. You have dreams to fulfill.
4. Life eventually gets better.
5. You’re afraid of death.
6. Because you can flip your life around.
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9. For religion.
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43 To become a better individual.
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Because there’s always something or someone worth fighting for.
I'm not gonna ask you to sub but if you could i would appreciate it
I just realized that maturity is when you stop making decisions based on your feelings and start living by your established values.
This explanation only holds if you presume (some) values are humanist and universal. It is way to common in history of mankind that horrible things were done in the name of values. Take both World Wars: Did people FEEL like killing and dying? Not really, but both sides of the conflict fought to protect their values (they claimed).
Without defining what "good values" are supposed to be, this video could be (dangerously) interpreted as "ends justify any means", which was certainly not the speakers intention.
heck even kids get paddled and abused in the name of values of their parents. And these parents don't give a damn about any misery they may be inflicting on their kids willingly or not because of these values. Many innocent people were executed for not submitting themselves to christian values. And these lives are never going to come back. Just as many who didn't submit to islam or any other religion were executed and are never coming back. Many oppressors had good intentions I don't have much doubt. They believed they were serving a higher purpose. But facts are facts
The argument about values is good, but it needs a better example. I've seen people, and I've seen cats and dogs. Cats and dogs win every time.
I love this kind of content so much. Thank you 🙏❤️
"love of virtue matters the most" -Aristotle
Before watching the video: Freedom. And after watching the video: Still freedom. There is no practicing of good values or integrity without freedom.
Ace there's a lot of truth in your statement.
Freedom is a consequence of a value, not the contrary.
I like your thinking.
Freedom does not mean freedom without consequences ....
correct.
The problem with this video is that money, love, and happiness are all values themselves. And "values" is subjective- I may have completely different values than anyone else (and I probably do). Mr. Prager doesn't understand this when he speaks of morals: 4:19. Morals are also subjective because there is no evidence anywhere that supports something being "moral" or "immoral" besides what you personally believe.
No they are not values. Stop flocking to a Christian channel just to try to bad mouth and disprove Christianity.
Jordan Wendt ??? I am a Christian. They most certainly are values. I don't agree or disagree with something based solely on wether or not it supports my religion. Next time you read a rational, provoking comment like mine I hope you think critically rather than just like or dislike it based on it's supposed purpose. Maybe you could even apologize.
+Nicholas Brainard you should agree with what is biblical as a Christian and disagree with what is against the bible. Makes me wonder how Christian you are.
Jordan Wendt I just pointed out that this video has a flaw. I don't understand what this has anything to do with The Bible (spelled with a capital "T" and "B"). I don't understand how after reading two logical and reasonable comments from a person on UA-cam refraining from insulting you despite your ability to refrain insulting them you can challenge my Christianity. What Would Jesus Do? Examine your own faith before you examine someone else's, regardless of how much you dislike them. If you insult me again I'm going to stop responding and let the other readers take over.
+Nicholas Brainard I see you are fun at parties.
Great video -- what many people seem to fail to understand is that the only way to be happy is by consistently living ACCORDING to your values (integrity). This is because true happiness can only be built on a foundation of true self-respect. And self-respect, like all respect, is EARNED. This sounds obvious, but I'm amazed how many folks don't seem to get this: We respect ourselves *only when we act in ways that are worthy of respect.* Most of the time, that means doing what we believe is right, regardless of our feelings. Modern pop psychology tells us to "respect ourselves," but acts as if this is an automatic thing, a choice, a switch we can flip on or off. And that's why it fails to work -- self respect can *only* be built over time, and it can *only* be torn down over time.
So all that to say: My prescription for happiness is as follows: Start with good values, live by them as much as possible, improve each time you miss the mark, and in so doing, you will build your self-respect. Only once your self-respect reaches a basic healthy level, and is maintained and grown, can you *start* to be truly happy. Once you get that concept, then living by your values becomes easier, because you realize that if you compromise your values to "gain something" (love, money, ANYTHING), you are doing so *at the direct cost of your self-respect and happiness.* Which is actually infinitely more valuable than whatever you had hoped to "gain."
My two cents, anyway. :)
I cant believe so many people saying they would save their dog. I love my dog and my cat . But I believe I would absolutely try to save the person first.
thank you for that. people in western liberal societies have just lost all sense of proportion.
So a short thin human is ok to save over a Great Dane?
Do you know what an example or a thought exercise is?
Do you do all your "good" deeds because there is a reward?
I would also save the person. But I'm not surprised by how many people say they would save their dogs first. I asked this question on yahoo answers once, and all of them said their dog. In real life, about 80% say they would save their pet first.
I don't have a dog but i have 2 cats. I would save my animals first as to me they are just like a family member. It would be like choosing to save a stranger first then my brother. Besides, I like animals in general more than most humans I have ever met.
It is one thing typing on a keyboard and playing the scenario out in your head and real life
I'm kind of shocked that there was not a mention of crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you and hearing the lamentation of their women.
Isn't that, after all, what's best in life?
Are you criticizing my tongue-in-cheek movie reference or are you making a very subtle reference to that same movie, Conan the Barbarian?
Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women. Someone had to say it.
+DavidSixSixFive wtf man?
+DavidSixSixFive
Either Conan,biblical text,or both.
+Double D Conan
That is good! That is good...
The Booty Awaits!
What matters most in life is the salvation of your immortal soul! If you don't believe you have a soul, then this video is correct!
1. Faith= Believe in Christ
2.Character
3. Values
4.Happiness(woman,interrst,..ect)
The most important thing is Jesus Christ.
+toppolthecat
indeed
what the important thing to him ?
The gamer
You should probably ask Him.Though he may have given a few clues at his trial when exchanging dialogue with Pilate.Truth was mentioned as a high priority.A deeper,more revealing truth than fact presentation perhaps.
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The gamer our salvation
TRIGGER WARNING : If you were drowning and a person chose to save there dog over your life, would you accept it? Put yourself in the situation . Would you be understanding that the person loves there dog more then you. This is to the people that choose to save the dog over the human.
I'd have to accept it because I would do the same thing. The stranger doesn't owe me anything, and the dog is their beloved pet. Of course they would love their dog more than a stranger.
you're the epitome of making this world shittier
I'm just asking a question , you're just being rude. RedTang
We are programmed for survival. I feel like almost everyone would rather be saved first.
VeraBDO pure demagoguery you've done here. I can do the same thing about pretty much everything. Yes when it comes to yourself, I do value my life before anybody else's life so I would want what's best for me.
the best people you know are people who battle their feelings every day of their lives....This is so deep. I'm crying this is so well put
According to my values, my family is more important than people I don't even know. My dog is part of my family, and his well being is my responsability. If he get sick, I'll pay his medical bills. If a random person get sick, it's not my responsability, and I can't be a hypocrite saying I would do something for random sick person because I don't do that for the random people who are already in hospitals. So, I'm saving my dog first.
I believe what you mean to say is what if the person has done something worthy of dieing on the death-bed/ or is gonna die soon anyway . You're dog could be a blood hound and be used to sniff out people and help save lives. Mean while the person whom you didnt know could've been an unrepentant cancer to society.
I would probably save my dog's life first because I value my dog before other strangers.
Generally I don't value any life that high, I believe in good and doing good to others but I don't think life is that important.
If people just won't do harm to each other when they don't have to that would be a great improvement from the world today.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!
WRONG! The open steppe, a fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair!
Humanity is vile scum. MOST ppl would save their dog !!!
+mba2ceo
Another victim of public education tactics ?
Same. I would save the dog.
I have battled my feelings against my principles every day of my 27 years in Japan. I believed and still do, that it is morally wrong to walk past stray or abandoned animals and do nothing, and yet by taking them in, I was sacrificing any chance of saving money, travelling, returning home, seeing friends and family, having a decent rented house to live in, (I lived for 12 years in a house which didn't even have a floor in the bathroom!), buying myself nice clothes, learning to drive, taking a course to make myself more employable if I ever had the chance to return home... the list is endless. My husband died of illness - we never even had a holiday together nor saw each other much as I was working days and evenings to make ends meet and trying to look after all the dogs and cats I had. Friends in both Japan and my home country told me to stop rescuing these animals and all along I have just wanted someone to say, ok rescue them and I will help you, but no one did. Now it is unlikely that I will ever have the chance to go back to my home country. I have no pension. I am alone. Now I only have 8 animals but I still cannot even go away for a night. Am I happy that I had moral principles over feelings?? NO. It has been a gruelling 27 years where I often felt like walking over a cliff. Am I proud? Yes, in a way, but who gives a toss anyway. I read somewhere that the real meaning of free will is not having the freedom to do whatever you like but being able to make the choice to do something that is against your own interests. So I sort of basked in that comfort for a time, but that self-righteous feeling soon dissipates. I should like to ask Mr Prager if he has ever sacrificed his personal happiness because of his principles. Because that is very often what having principles involves. I would imagine his answer would be no.
1. not eating junk food is logic, not a moral value (unlike the save human over dog thing)
2. Only petty crimes come from lack of values. Almost all the major world issues actually come from people following their morality and just having bad values
3. With proper thinking, you can align your feelings and values rather then have them conflict. To take junk food example, I don't feel like I would be happy being fat and with diabetis
***** So his example of an actual value is something that is not actually value? then it is a poor example. Which was exactly my point when I said "this isn't a moral value"
Nice theories about none of your points happens in REAL life.
***** Poor examples DO matter.
1. Poor examples lead to a poor explanation of the theory
2. Poor examples undermine the validity of your theory, especially for a soft science
Tal Tamir You must not" value" your health ? But think about something that is important to you, then perhaps you can visualize the idea that is being expressed with better clairity.
Martin Lutz You must not be able to read:
"not eating junk food is logic, not a moral value "
Also, the word value can have multiple definitions, this video is clearly speaking about
a. a moral imperative
and your argument is using the definition of
b. something that is appreciated / of worth
if my dog were drowning, I would save him even at the cost of a cruise liner
+Marko Krcmar also a dog is very unlikely to drown, and one would have ample time to save a drowning human and a dog, unless the person isn't physically fit or something along those lines
Plus, all life is precious, whether it be human, animal, or even possibly AI in the future.
+Seth ノートン But not all are equal.
POS Well, it depends on what the individual does with their life
+Marko Krcmar
Good point.Any dog not capable of swimming better than a human is near worthless.
Money is actually the most important, more money you have your parents and wife and children will love you and you will have friends
Yeah but fake friends and maybe even your family will fake their feelings for you. Just for them to get money and be rich
Not quite so, the most important things are: 1. Health and the craft you enjoy and dedicate time to 2. Money 3. Being respected
Dennis Prager for President.
yair1010 Trump*
If he was running, he's got my vote!
I would save the guy cos the dog can swim back out
The most important thing you'll ever have is GOOD HEALTH.
I would add that the most important thing are values based in Christ.
Values are subjective and hence there are no absolutely good values.
I would have saved my dog. I'm not trained in life guard duty to rescue people. And a drowning person panics, and when they panic they may have a tendency to push your head under the water to stay a float without thinking about it. No thanks...
Just imagine you are the one who is drawning.
I'm fine with it. I hold no one to be obligated to save me except christ. Also I know how to float and swim quiet well.
***** Maybe now you believe that, but take in mind that desperation can change anyone's mind.
better imagine both you and your saved dog in the sand, watching that man dying. What a feeling.
***** I said what I said, because if I were to go out and help a drowning person which I am not trained for, Their would likely be two people and a dog drowning. Me being the person with my head under water while the person uses me as a floatation device. That helps no one. Have you ever seen someone drown? I have. They were rescued but the person drowning did exactly what I said. They will use their rescuer or anyone else to get above the water without thinking.
In this scenario of a guy and dog drowning I weigh how much help I'd be and the ammount of risk that would impact me before helping. Also If you can't swim get out of the water. Better yet don't go near it. And a dog drowning is a joke too. They swim on instinct.
For all those who would try to save their dog:- Consider you (or your brother or sister or your son) was drowning and there was this person who neglected you ( or your loved ones) and saved his dog and went home.
If you don't like the above scenario, please reconsider your being alive.
Not Cool.
What makes our life valuable - is the good values we uphold.
Principles and values are the laws of life that God had established. Just as the physical world has laws, life also has laws called "principles". Follow them and you will live a happy and fulfilling life, ignore them and they will break you. Nobody can't go against the principles thats like the egg and the rock.
That's relativism garbage. Principles and values are universal. For instance, the principle of "do unto others as you want them to do to you" is seen in almost every culture. no culture in the world upheld dishonesty and cowardice as virtues. Principles like honesty, integrity, justice, etc are seen in every nation and culture. You may break them of course and you are not gonna see the results immediately. But at the end of the day nobody escapes karma.
Here we go again with the deification of "Reason". You should read Immanuel Kant and his book "The critique of pure reason" where he clearly talks about the limits of reasoning. Even David Hume said: "Reason is a slave to the passions".
Morality is natural and universal. It is discoverable without religion but it's ultimate source is Divine. Some try to explain this through Darwinian evolution but the "survival of the fittest" by itself contradicts all this. Self interest is bounded to our nature, when people talk about "the common good morality" they start from the premise that we are unselfish, but we are not. Why should self interested people care about the good of society except when it benefits them? So as long as there's harmony they'll behave good? If there's ever anarchy and chaos does all that goes out the window?
***** It's not reason or basic instinct, try again. Also virtues don't predate God.
Eh, I'd still go with love.
"And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing."
1 Corinthians 13:2 RSV-CI
Edit: Now, this doesn't mean you would save the dog over the person. Just try to live by the Bible's description of love.
the definition love in this Paul's letter is different with what love is in the video.
Paul's description of love is same with this video description of value.
Because if you read the all of the NT, you will know that what Paul meant with love is a sacrificial love. It's same with what this video meant about value is.
@@demsyciu Okay, that makes sense.
I wish Dennis Prager could give me a tongue lashing about life,about how good i really have everything i need.
I think of feelings as something more complex than basic instincts, I don't think feeling is a right word to describe those first impulses.
Inner peace is more important than values and feelings. Values are necessary for fostering a healthy body and society, but without peace life becomes miserable and stupid because peace fosters intelligence and happiness too.
And how do you foster peace? By everyone doing their part in keeping good moral values.
I jack off to jesus's execution.
you're just calling feelings inner peace.
How can you consider inner peace higher than values? The world is drowning in people who want to tear you down at any point. If you VALUE your own pace of mind, you will work for inner peace. Same with outward peace: society fights against itself on issues like racism. But if you VALUE peace, you're more likely to look past race and try to bring people together. Peace - inner or outer - is great, but you have to value it to make it happen.
I serve myself. Everyone else can burn.
The last line : The best people you know who are honest, kindest are battling with their feeling everyday !
Time is the most important thing. You can't do anything without it.
Blind luck matters most in life.
Looks = luck. Health = luck. Knowing the right poeple = luck. Success in a prestigeous field = talent = luck.
With enough luck you can achieve anything humanly possible. Without luck you will achieve nothing no matter what. Luck is the king.
Dweliq- And what about fate?
Joe Lee Fate is kinda a part of the luck, in a way that if you are incredibly talented in one thing, you will almost certainly excel in that field later on. Unless you were born in Burkina Faso but hey, where you were born is also luck based.
Luck = all factors outside of peoples control that have an impact on their lives. With luck you can be a heavy smoker and live long. Without luck you can live healthily and die in your twenties.
Interesting view.
Maybe.
But you cannot control fortune.
His last words set my heart free.
+niyah w I agree!
Meme eater lol?
You should rephrase the title to - "What's the most important thing in life to possess or have?" Because the question you posed in the title was not properly answered.
As love is something given, I'm not sure that in terms of something you possess, it's something that you can have. It's hard to articulate. Love is a choice. It is an action. It is something you can choose to do.
Which leaves humility. Humility is the most important thing to have. With it, you'll learn a lot. You'll put others ahead of yourself. You'll work hard. You'll see things for how they really are.
As for what matters most in life? Loving the Lord.
To save a random human over the animal that has been by your side and supported you through life because “he’s more important” is disgusting and appalling, this is why humans are disloyal
The Lord Jesus Christ ❤ is the most important, by far.
I definitely disagree. Yes, values have some value, but this ignores the truth of Maslow's Triangle, and values do not become even significant until the basics needs of Life are satisfied. For the majority of people on this planet that struggle for basic needs is very real. Also, the thing that stops people from eating all they want is NOT their values, but common sense and their own bodies giving them signals they are doing something harmful. As for the root of "everything wrong" in the world, that comes mainly from our genetically wired fear, superstition, and greed for material things and power.
Wishing you Love, Truth and Peace
#ditto
Simon S, Purveyor of truth & reason Oh! good we can have a fight again. :)
You will not find the word "happiness" or "most important" anywhere in Maslow's hierarchy of needs. In my opinion it is not about "importance", but just an evaluation of how people's needs evolve to higher levels as the lower needs are met. If anything the lowest level is most important since without it we die.
I think the idea that anyone can have true happiness without good values is not correct on the guy's part either. I had just stumbled on this video after taking a swing at a recent pro-Christian one the channel did. Have a great day!
I think you can be happy. It's all a matter of priorities. Could you walk out the door and leave everything behind? It's not the material goods at all that keep me here. I do have to think about healthcare though.
Simon S, Purveyor of truth & reason I never fight and just express my opinions and share what I have learned with no need to be a "winner." lol All opinions have value.
Like you, I also value morals and higher thoughts very much, but they were totally unnecessary in the History of Homo sapiens for 99% of the time it has existed, correct? So calling them "important" I think only comes from our modern day viewpoint, which has only come to be by our having most of the lower levels of needs filled, and suddenly being better educated, and finally having much of the accumulated wisdom of mankind literally at our fingertips. And sadly still much of mankind does not consider human life to be worthy of respect or important at all.
Mr G Yes, I'm pretty sure the 17th Amendment is the Right to have Vasectomies. That does make the path of pursuing those who might bring you happiness in bed easier in some cases, if you don't take too many liberties, which could result in the lose of your Life. If you have a good constitution you should be able to run away fast enough to save yourself. I just paraphrased what you said.
People don't value reason anymore, they value feelings.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
The most important thing in life is health.
+Jewelry Bag
When it comes to health good luck and healthy habits play a huge role.
Absolutely not. Health is only achieved through values. Therefore values are more important. It's great if everyone has health but nothing GOOD will get done without GOOD values.
Yeah tell that to someone with cancer, MS, paralysis, malaria, cholera or all the other diseases that do not really care what your value system is. No, the most important thing in life is your health because it is a blessing and sadly these days people do not invest enough into their health of the healthcare infrastructure of nations.
Jewelry Bag
Could you rephrase that last sentence.It was a bit convoluted.What exactly is "health of the healthcare infrastructure of nations"
Double D Sorry I meant that people do not invest enough into their health via exercise, diet, regular check-ups as a priority and that governments and corporations do not invest enough into affordable healthcare, research & development, combating disease etc. The number one priority for a government should be the healthcare of its citizens.
What about values vs. *virtues*?
What matters most in life?
Caring
Honesty
Attitude
Kindness
Hardwork
Never give up
Slowly but surely
=
Success
Really hard.. But worth it ;)
My guess was personal safety. It's impossible to be happy if you're:
A. Trapped in a burning house because you were too lazy to put up smoke detectors
B. Trapped in a crushed car because you were texting while driving
C. Duct taped in the back of Buffalo Bob's van
I still think happiness is the most important thing in life.
Yeah, so do most people. That's why most of them are so miserable all the time.
Guess I'm one of the few.who aren't miserable all the time.
Michael Wright He doth protest too much.
If you aren't miserable all the time, then why are you seeking happiness all they time and why is it so important to you?
Most happy people are just happy. They don't feel the need to seek it out because their happiness comes naturally.
What do the people that are naturally happy pursue?
Michael Wright Everything.
I love these videos omg thank you so much
+NUMBLIFEUSA they are sooo goodd I love them too
this is an incredibly important message. thank you, Dennis.
This is so beautiful to hear, I feel so unhappy right now, I feel I could have everything I want but to get them I need to compromise good things from me, I'm an honest person, kind, caring and compassionate but people don't care about that, so they will disrespect me or hurt me, to be better than them I need to win over them, to do that I have to destroy them somehow, so the end justifies the means according to the life's law which I disagree with, that's why I keep battling everyday of my life, feeling I have the potential to be a winner but I choose to be a loser because I don't want to betray my values.
Aren't values dictated by one's feelings?
I believe that values are in the eye of the beholder. Just because yours don't equate to mine, doesn't me you or I are wrong. We are just two different sides of a ball. Many different points of view.
I would use coin for that metaphor but that would entail that their are only two points of view, which I find to be defeatist. Like voting either Democrat or Republican.
They come as much out of thousands of years of collective human experience.
I would agree that values are subjective, but there are still good and bad values, thus values that are better than others. For example, sex. There are people who value their sexual expression and indulge in casual sex with no care for who they give their body to. Meanwhile, there are people who value the relationship they build with another person before giving that person their body. One value says you don't care about your body, and only care about temporary pleasure. The other says you should care about your body, and experiencing intimacy without devaluing the meaningfulness of the experience. Thus sex with someone you are in love with and plan to have a future with is healthier and more pleasurable in more ways then casual sex, thus valuing the fullness of your experience is better than valuing the temporary pleasure.
@@mel-oo1wt So value for you=rational thinking?
Why do people still use them, o right rational thinking is hard.
@@zedantXiang Rational thinking isn't a value and is a skill? I'm not sure how your comment is relevant to mine.
@@mel-oo1wt Thinking about thing is the best value.
This doesn't apply to me because I have a lab.
+Jake Leuty
Always trade a lab for a better shepherd.
+Jake Leuty Not to mention you see on the news people helping a few guys out of a car that went off road into a pond and then they shot the people that rescued them.
Double D What I meant was my dog wouldn't be drowning, because he's a lab. He was born to swim.
I would save my dog,
Not because i value human life less, it is because my first Value is:
Help you’re family.....
My dog would be considered Family.
This is the first time i disagree with the way PrageU its teaching a lesson, the worst kind of example they chose between saving a human or an animal, this put people in different sides of a coin and only brings conflict, im very disappointed PragerU
In the dog vs human drowning example, the answer is choose your pet dog. This is because we live in an absurdly litigious society and the person you save could be the person who sues you to homelessness.
Don't be so quick to help people when the laws are so insane.
lol. I agree. unfortunately. But we got to this point because of the lack of values by some of those high placed folks that make absurd and illogical laws.
(At least I do know of a couple lawyers that decline to take cases that are not moral although easily winnable)
you know the dog, the dog ges saved first
I'm from an earlier generation and one of the values my parents instilled in me was to do the right thing. In this case it would be to save the person regardless of absurd laws.
Stan Parrish It's fine to do the right thing, but don't be a fool about it. Consequences matter, too.
bluo88
There have been times in my life where I had to choose. Doing the right thing never guarantees anything but that you can look at yourself and feel good that you did right even in the face of adversity. Sometimes that may mean immediate misfortune. Oh well. Sooner or later what goes around comes around. The life of a person even a homeless wino is always worth more than an animal even a beloved pet. Besides, the grandchild of the person you saved may have a big positive impact on other people. Far less likely than with an animal.
the point of view that human life is more valuable than animal life is speciesist. (sorry for my english in case i've made mistakes).
Is finding the LIFE OF your own son or your own daughter or your own wife or your own parents or your own friends MORE VALUABLE than others' lives also speciesist?!
indianzionist2012 speciesism : discrimination in favor of one species, usually the human species, over another, especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans.
if your a speciesist you think human life is more valuable then animal life
now i understand that you may think that your own son or your own daughter or any other person that is close to you is more valuable then not only animals but any other human but values aren't determinated by feelings.
if both my dad and Einstein would be drawning and i could save only one if were talking about values Einstein is more valuable. (sorry about my english)
vitaNmel Ever heard of this saying: "You don't call your neighbor as your father just because he resembles your father"?!
rationalindian11 not actually , whats your point with this saying? :) that animals aren't the same as humans? well they aren't , that still doesn't mean they are less valuable .
vitaNmel If animals are the SAME as humans, why call the animals as animals in the first place?! Why not call them HUMANS?! But of course, in your EGALITARIAN world, there is NO CONCEPT OF "Everyone is NOT EQUAL but UNIQUE", is it?!
So true, the problem in the world is that so many social issues are a result of feelings, emotions, heonism.
Values are just forward looking desires, which are just advanced feelings.
Hmm I want to see a video try to debunk this guy. Not because I think he's wrong, far from it, but I want to see someone else's point of view on this
I won't make a video because I don't have that type of time on my hands, but here's what I think:
You can't compare tangible and non-tangible objects like this, nor can you compare the root of something to the outcome of it. It's just too obvious of an answer. It sounds like this guy is trying to sound really smart, but it's not even an argument. If values = happiness, love and money (somehow), then isn't it all too obvious to say that values are the most important thing? That's like saying "What's more important, a basketball? Or the invention of basketballs?" It just seems pointless that he even made this video. All of those things he mentioned ARE VALUES. Furthermore, values and ethics are COMPLETELY subjective. As humans, we have no possible way of understand what is actually right or wrong. The law is the only thing that governs our thoughts towards certain actions and beliefs and even THAT is flawed because the law is ever changing and varies from place to place. Life is one big paradox of the unknown.
Food for thought:
Like morals, is god real?
Because we don't see a god, we can't know.
One may ask: "But how does the universe exist if there's no god?"
How would a god exist if there was nothing to create it?
All we have are facts. Seeing is knowing, and believing is imagination. Creating an "I'm wrong you're right" argument based on opinion is incredibly biased and has no merit.
“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.” - David Hume. This quote best explains my answer to your question, and I think the person you're responding to would agree with me. I have a reasonable certainty that the things that I see with my eyes actually occur. This conclusion is not infallible, it's just sound, and it's as close to certainty as we can achieve. Of course, there is always the possibility that we are insane, or that our eyes/brains are incapable of understanding what they see, or it's even possible that all of this is a figment of one of our imaginations. Infallible certainty is a fiction. It's not something that is actually possible to achieve. If anyone ever claims to be ABSOLUTELY certain that something is true, you can reasonably assume that they are either insane or have a poorly disciplined way of thinking.
***** Of course I am not absolutely certain. I am basing it on what seems to be consistent. I see that there are clouds in the sky. I ask others if they also see clouds in the sky and they do (most of 'em anyways). I come across information discovered by other people that talks about the properties of the clouds in the sky. It is POSSIBLE that those clouds are a figment of my imagination. It is POSSIBLE that you are a figment of my imagination. However, as far as I can tell, my eyes are mostly consistent with reality. I can touch the things I see. I can smell them. Other people say that they can see, smell, and touch the things I see. I am not certain in the literal sense, but my belief that clouds exist is based on sound reasoning. Certain in the sense we are talking about does not mean "oh yeah I'm sure I locked the door before I left" Certain in the "old" sense means 100% absolutely no matter what positive - that it is objectively impossible for you to be wrong. I can not say that I am certain that there are clouds in the sky, because that's insane. I am not omniscient. [Fun existential quandry: Assume that someone WAS omniscient. How would they verify it? How could they prove to themselves that there was nothing outside of their knowledge? Even a supposedly "omniscient" being would be unsure whether it was actually omniscient]
I'll leave you with one last quote, just because I'm not the best at explaining things, and people more intelligent than myself have already put them into words better than I can: “The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators ... They are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence, uninfluenced by the emphasis or confidence with which assertions are made on one side or the other. They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices and all kinds of cajolery." - William Graham Sumner
Admitting that it is possible for reality as we know it to be a fabrication is not the same as assuming that reality is a fabrication. I assume and "believe" that reality is as I see it because I have significant amounts of evidence from sensory input to support that claim. I have no evidence at all that suggests the contrary. Thus, it is a "reasonably sound" belief.
Brittany, you've got to be kidding when you say that "As humans, we have no possible way of understanding what is actually right or wrong. The law is the only thing that governs our thoughts towards certain actions and beliefs..." Are you some sort of robot that has no critical thinking skills of your own and cannot discern right from wrong? You need the Government to tell you what is right??? This is one reason that we make fun of the German Nazis in World War II.
3:39 Honestly, I don't know. what if people burgers really do taste good and I might missing out?...I need a brain scan.
Understanding, Experience, Judgement, Good food, Good book, Challenge anyone, Brainstorming, Change, Letting go, Being bad and so on.
Money gets spent.
Looks fade away.
Athleticism fades away.
But nobody can ever take away your moral values.
What kind of stupid dog jumps into the water and drowns.
It was trying to save the other guy :p
Hey no hate on dogs mis(ter)!
I would always save a human life, even at the expense of a loved furry friend. Human life is incalculably important. Animals were put on this Earth, by God, for our use. And, no matter how much we love them, individually. Their lives always come second to that of mankind.
I needn't reply to your comments, you've revealed who you are far better than any of my words could do.
Mark, you are right. My sentiment still stands in regards to thinking animals are better than many people. I would prefer to save an animal than a paedophile. When I wrote my comment last night I was tired, cranky, in pain, on strong pain killers and not in my best mind. So I apologise for my strong words in that regard, I'm sure it wouldn't have been nice to get an email comment like that from a stranger. I imagine it would have come across as aggressive, so again I apologise. I still strongly disagree with your statement though
Feel free to strongly disagree,...respectfully. Apology accepted. :-)
Why do you say that? I don't think I was burned. I admitted that I felt my response last night wasn't the way to respond. It isn't how I normally respond but my emotions got the better of me and I resulted to insults which really is quite pathetic in arguing a point....it lessens your argument. I could have said nothing instead or aplogising, I could have even deleted my comment. I chose to do what I felt was the right thing to do and apologise for my actions as I felt that was the right thing to do. There is so much behaviour like mine last night on the internet, and I don't want to live my life that way. Letting emotion speak shows you are not in control of your mind which is not how I want to be. So I don't think I got burned, don't really care if I was, the point is I wanted to accept my behaviour and apologise. Despite what someone else s views are, insulting them doesn't allow for a respectful diaglogue, but more than that, getting an email comment that comes across aggressive isn't the way to go through life......and it wouldn't be nice either if someone was going through a rough depressed time in their life then have something negative dumped on them from a stranger due to an opinion they expressed that was really nothing to really get worked up over.
I blocked that loser. No time for trolls.
Love itself is a value that measures how much time, effort and suffering you will go through in order to keep someone because you value them.
Integrity should be #1 on everyone's list of values. If you've got integrity you've got everything else.
I pointed this out the other day on one of Matthias's videos. He asked what the most important quality was, and people were calling out "funny" or "good family man" or "loves kids" or "loyal" or whatever, and I said all of these are fine, but without integrity they're useless. A funny villain is still a villain. A loyal henchman is still a henchman. A loving family man who happens to be the Godfather is still a brutal murderer, just with a sorta redeeming quality that makes us able to root for him in the movie.
I wouldn't say that if you've got integrity you've got everything else. Just that without integrity, everything else is worthless.
***** I hear what you're saying, but I don't really see how you CAN have anything else without integrity.
You can be funny without having integrity. You can love children without having integrity (cheaters). There are a variety of qualities you can have without integrity -- they're just not sufficient.
***** Yeah, but love humor aren't virtues. I get what you're saying though.
I agree they're not moral virtues. What would your general list of actual moral virtues be?
Dennis prager and any random animal are both drowning, I can only save one. I save the animal and make the world a better place.
+beeezus Chrisp
Spoken like a true left wing idealist.You are well on your way to be cemented into the group for life.Now you just need tenure for a life time of security.
Most people suffer from PTSD and cannot think clearly.Take yourself as an example.You seem unable to distinguish a christian from a Jew.
beeezus Chrisp
There is plenty more you don't realize and even what you do is questionable.The devil is crafty.
+Double D yes, like everyone, there is plenty I don't know, but me mistaking Dennis prager as a Christian instead of a Jew has absolutely nothing to do with the devil. It just comes from the fact that much of the stuff he says is in line with a unique form of self centered, xenophobic religion (Jewish or Christian doesn't matter) that is plaguing the US and I never bothered to look up his religion and made an incorrect assumption based on what was most likely.
I'm saving my dog. I don't want to risk the chance of saving a person who may turn out to be a jerk.
+Jack Palkovic Feel free to save a potential Serial Killer, I'm saving my dog.
+Jack Palkovic The world is a System of Law, not of Justice, no Justice comes from incarcerating someone who took someone else's life. Especially from the perspective of a non-productive member of society. What exactly would that non-productive member of society rather be doing, if when given a choice they choose to use their "productive" time to kill. One might even conclude that being in jail may actually be their wish, to do nothing and be fed and housed to do nothing. That's not being brought to Justice, thats simply preventing them from doing more harm to others. We live in a System of Law, not of Justice.
what if you are a person drowning next time?
Let alone "sue" you for the bruise you gave them for saving their ass.
TheAsianRepublican What If? What if that person cures cancer or does something else valuable to the human race? What if someone has a choice between saving you or their pet and they don't know you at all?
The greatest thing in life is friendship because when you do have all that money you're going to want to be able to share it with others
The cheating analogy provides a good answer for why so many dishonest people are in high office or running big business. Honest decent people don't cheat and thus have "lower scores" (whether grades, resumes, references, etc) than the cheaters (or at least the ones that don't get caught).
I'd save my dog, that guy is on his own.
I'd save my dog before everyone but my mother
+dswrain
Guess you do not think very highly of your siblings.
+wolflink9000 Idk if you ever saw a video where a dad takes his son to work, he works on the train station guiding trains. The man receives a call and gets distracted his son goes play on the track the father has to choose guide the train into another train and save his son or let his son die and save 1,000 persons. He chose saving 1,000 persons, i would had let 1,000 person die just to save my daughter by guiding the trains into each other.
wolflink9000 yeah like wtf he's doing there lol.
I’m sure if you and a dog were about to drown and the owner of the dog chose to save the dog, you’d be thinking why the owner did not save you.
Yeah no, any basic research into Ethics and Moral Problems can show that the idea of "values" isn't set in stone, and is really just another form of social subjugation. Your values are also entirely dictated by your "feelings".
Moral Relativism like this has been easily countered. I'm not saying people cant find their own values, but you can quite clearly look at society and judge who is a better or worse person, and that is independant of how happy they are.
Can you give an example of this dictation?
Jace Ortega Sure, the basic trolley dilemma
+Toa Onua I think the old white guys points hold more solid compared to that dilemma, considering he gives more realistic examples. catch my drift?
Jace Ortega The only drift I catch is that you're gullible to the first, solitary opinion on a matter from a fking youtube video xDD
+Toa Onua well I like to take everything with a pinch of salt, nothing is really made in stone. But feel free to think so. You give these examples like "research into Ethics and Moral problems.." But give no real examples. You give me a theory and not a real life study.
This describes me quite a lot. The only thing I recommend is to make sure you have good values rather than just values.
What matters most? Everything. Life is a gift.
I'm saving my dog :D
+Alonna Gilmore are you a vegan?
Well, as much as you love your dog, I hope you know that's the immoral thing to do.
+Joseph LaForest Saving the person is the moral thing to do. Luckily I have I have a Chesapeake Retriever. A dog bread to swim in the harshest conditions and literally has webbed feet. :P
+siggilum.diaboli Morally speaking, any human life is still > animal life. Although, if you know he's a murderer, you might want to knock him unconscious as well as bring him to the police. Being moral doesn't mean being stupid.
+Joseph LaForest Someone else can save that guy, but no one but me would save my dog.
If that guy die, it's his fault. If my dog die, it my fault as the owner.
What kind of moral that put family below stranger?
Sorry Dennis, the most important thing in life is having eternal life. What good is it to gain the world ( health, happiness, wealth, friends, good job, and whatever else it is that you want) and lose your soul?
You see Dennis, we are here to respond to God. God made us and God gave His perfect life for us. How we respond to what God did for us is the most important thing we can do.
We have 3 options.
1. We can ignore it.
2. We can reject it.
3. We can repent of our sins, and place our trust in Jesus Christ. The son of God who died on the cross in our place. So that we could have eternal life and be saved from God's judgment on Judgment day.
That Dennis is the most important thing in life. Not the things of this world but the things of the world to come. Our eternal resting place.
What good is it, to gain the entire world but lose your life in the end?
***** RL, I would be glad to respond to your question. Thanks for asking.
Your first question was or is: What kind of Christian am I.
Answer: The kind that has repented of my sins (Note, I am not perfect, I am still a sinner, however, I do not chase the sins I once loved and hate the sins I commit. The kind of Christian that has a desire to honor God and obey His commands. My intention is to follow God, rather than follow the things that I want and desire.)
Secondly, repent means: to agree with God and His Holy Word. It means to ask God to forgive me of my sins and tell Him I am sorry for the things I did that offended Him. It also means to stop doing the things He hates. And that is sinning. Again I am far from perfect, but my intention is to honor God and grow in holiness rather than continue in sin.
Thirdly, I am the kind of Christian who has placed my total trust in the sacrifice God (Jesus Christ) made for me when He died on the cross for my sins. I trust the work He did for me as my salvation. He (Jesus Christ) has saved me from God's wrath and punishment on judgment day. He also offers eternal life in Heaven with Him forever. For that, I am eternally grateful and because of that I want to honor God and share my faith, or share the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ so others like yourself can respond to what God did for you.
Fourth, there is nothing I can bring to the table to God as far as my goodness. I am the wretched sinner the bible talks about who needs Jesus Christ. If I have come across as better than you or above you, that is certainly not my intent. I need Jesus Christ more than the next person. My intent is to share the good news of the gospel. And it is my intent to defend God's Word and obey His commands. If people say sin, is not a sin, I will be the first to correct the error. That is not being judgmental, that is not being a bigot or mean. That is simply sharing what is true and what is right. God's Word is the authority on all things. So that is where I get my information, facts, and standards.
Fifth, you said the soul is a matter of energy that can not be created. Who told you this? How do you know this is true? Where do you get your information to make such a statement?
Sixth, I am not religious. I hate religion. Religion is man's way to reach God. God has a different way. It is thru His only Son Jesus Christ. I go that route, and not the religious route. Religion is working it's way to God, but we can not earn or work our way to God. We are saved by God thru faith in Jesus Christ, not by our works. Ephesians 2:8.9.
Seventh, it does not frustrate me that there are people out there who ignore or reject the good news of the gospel. My goal is to simply share my faith. How people respond is strictly between them and God. I do not ask anyone to join a church, donate money, or become a religious nut, or speak in tongues, dance, jump up and down, or do anything. All I ask them to do, is respond to the message of the cross. Do you trust God and the work God did for you or do you not? It is that simple.
Eight, suggesting that you don't have to thank me, is some what of a two edged sword. I realize you might hate my message and think it is arrogant to suggest such a thing, but for those who do come to terms with their sins and realize that the only way to be right with God is thru Jesus Christ, would want to thank me for this message. They would want to thank me because, their response is the most important decision they could make in life. Peoples eternity rests on how they respond to what God did for them and this message is a message that everyone needs to hear. I also realize that God keeps His message from getting thru to the proud and arrogant. He wants people to come to Him who are humble and sincere. So, I understand clearly what you are saying when you say what you said.
All the best to you and that question you asked was the best question anyone could ask. "What kind of Christian am I?" Great question and thank you again for asking it.
***** RLI believe I answered most of this in my last post, but I will respond once again.
You asked: What's your goal? My Reply:To share the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ, so that others can respond to God and what He did for us.
Vote? NOPE, I am not a politician nor desire to be one. I am not running for an office or election.
A bet? NOPE,
To prove a point? Nope, I have nothing to prove.
More people for your church? The church is God's body of believers. Not a building. So if you are asking about membership to church building or organization that gets together on Sundays or whenever, NOPE. But I must admit, that I hope others respond to God and repent and place their trust in Jesus Christ. It would be in their best interest to respond. If they don't, that is between them and God. If they do, that too, is between them and God.
What is your gain? Nothing to gain, just my direction from God's Word to go and make disciples of the world. It is a command in the Bible, and I have the option to follow it or ignore it. I choose to follow it, if that is OK with you?
These questions were good, but your best question was, What kind of Christian are you? I still like that one.
I really hope this is helping you get to know me better, because I am pretty transparent about things,
***** not sure what you have responded to.
***** Ok, but why are you sending this to me?
***** Really, so you are saying you are all-knowing or Omnipresent to make this claim?
Good values WITH money is far better than having just good values.
Why do we need Good values..because ultimately it brings happiness to our life...So being happy is matters in one's life
I must disagree with the dog example. I would save my dog because we have constructed an emotional connection. Just as I trust him, he trusts me, and I wouldn't fail to that trust.
Doesn't get off the point that you then (saving the dog) act apon feelings and not values.
No, he'd be acting upon the value of saving something that trusts him over someone he doesn't know. It may not be the best choice, but it's still a value. "Never the trusting ones! I have sworn it!"
+Kilyle I don't think that would be good (in the sense of morality) value.
Patrick Kanal That depends entirely on whether you value human life as intrinsically better than animal life, and whether that appraisal is factually correct or not.
If human life is more intrinsically valuable, then saving the human must always come before saving the animal, and any other choice is morally reprehensible.
However, if animal life is of equal value, then there is no reason to prefer one to the other, and choosing the one you are closest to, the one who could live longer, or the one who is of more value to society / the world are all equally valid ways of deciding which one to save.
If I save the dog, is because he trusts in me, just like I trust in him. If it would be a random dog and a random human, I would save the human. But the dog would be part of my family, and not saving him would be betraying my family.
I know it might be questionable. I won't say whether human life is as or more valuable than animal life, but I don't think such a topic should be closed with a simple statement such as "X life is more valuable than Y life". It might depend entirely of the case, always keeping in mind that humanity needs to protect themselves, but with a moral responsability for animal life as well.