Pet Peeves...
1) Corruption - people lining their own pockets at the expense of the man on the street
2) Snobs - people who look down on others using material possessions as the measuring stick.
3) Bad Manners... my old man told me manners cost nothing. He was right.
4) People who can't hold their hand up. If you're wrong, out of order or have been an arse, hold your hand up.
5) Liars.
6) Cheats
my greatest pet peeve has to be selfishness.
and these people who do the very things you are talking about are plain selfish among other things.
I have always considered "selflessness" to be absolutely vital. it means something to me and it is something to be proud of.
it is something to strive for every single day.
every single day we should do little something for somebody other than ourselves.
I was born and raised with this philosophy and I have never ever lost sight of it.
we give first and foremost and then we worry about receiving.
it is the way of the warrior.
I agree.
I hate selfishness too.
It is one of the most negative emotions known to mankind.
Materialism (hate it with a passion)
Religious dogmas and doctrine
Weapons (hate it with a passion. Why do we need weapons again?)
Drugs (hate it with a passion)
Alcohol (when people abuse it)
Sex (when people abuse it)
Economy (how the rise and fall of market place govern our lives)
Consumerism (hate it with a passion)
In reality, none of these are the real culprits because neither alcohol nor weapons or anything else tell us to abuse those and kill other people. Sex doesn't tell us to go
****, kill and sexually assault others, but it is probably the No. 1 crime in our world happening probably in most households, where people are victims of someone else' twisted sexual desires. Even innocent children aren't left alone. Really hate all these negative character traits in human beings.
Materialism (hate it with a passion)
Religious dogmas and doctrine
Weapons (hate it with a passion. Why do we need weapons again?)
Drugs (hate it with a passion)
Alcohol (when people abuse it)
Sex (when people abuse it)
Economy (how the rise and fall of market place govern our lives)
Consumerism (hate it with a passion)
In reality, none of these are the real culprits because neither alcohol nor weapons or anything else tell us to abuse those and kill other people. Sex doesn't tell us to go ****, kill and sexually assault others, but it is probably the No. 1 crime in our world happening probably in most households, where people are victims of someone else' twisted sexual desires. Even innocent children aren't left alone. Really hate all these negative character traits in human beings.
These are great.
What do you mean by religious dogmas and doctrine?
I think I know, but I'm not sure.
Sorry to get back to you on this so late but sometimes I completely forget about where I'd said what unless it's right in front of me.
It is what it is as I said. I just don't believe in a set of rules set out by people and all religions are all about that because they are all more or less based on the followers' encounters, which can very well run the risk of being quite different than the actual events. And they do according to many scholars. That does not however negate my trust in Jesus or Mohammad or Buddha or Moses etc., but most importantly, God. I do think that the concept of God is lost to many; in other words, we really don't have the true concept of God, especially when we still have the tendency to attach a human figure and mind to it, but that's a matter of a separate discussion, like Who or What is God? etc.
For now, I am just going to leave at that because I believe everyone is on their own journey and not matter what path we take, we will eventually arrive to the same place contrary to different religious belief systems.
But the things I have outlined in my previous post, come to think of it, they are all quite neutral - be it sex, drugs, weapons, alcohol, materialism etc. It's us who go and manipulate and abuse things. So clearly the main problem is within us.