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Your Value Is In Your Values by twosam: 10:24am On Apr 30, 2016 |
Do you consider yourself responsible? Are you honest, righteous, a liar, wicked, corrupt, or promiscuous? What’s your value? In the spirit of justice, every human regardless of sex, tribe, religion, color, class is created with the same number of values (standards of behaviour). There are tens of hundreds of these values in each person some of which include selflessness, kindness, forgiveness, mercy, patience, tolerance, endurance, justice, etc. You have no choice (of refusal) of this gift of God. What you have choice over is on which of these values to activate (bring to life). You can choose to activate them positively or negatively. Selflessness, activated negatively becomes Selfishness Love > Hate Patience > Impatience Tolerance > Intolerance Justice > Injustice Freewill > Force/Compulsion Kindness > Cruel, etc This choice is what makes us different from the other person and accords us our value (worth). To lack value as a person is saying you have chosen not to activate the values or have activated them negatively (wrongly). To have value is to activate these values positively. The more you activate positively, the more your value, the more enduring you become, and can avoid any fall. Adam and Eve fell because they lacked value to endure stay in the Garden of Eden. There were values they activated wrongly. Our purpose here is to develop these values to fall no more. Your value (worth) is in your values (standards) http://twosam..com/
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Re: Your Value Is In Your Values by Nobody: 10:40am On Apr 30, 2016 |
Well, the thing with the values is often highly subjective and differs from culture to culture. Let me give you a few examples: Honesty Is it good to be honest and tell a person that s/he is stu.pid even though it is true? Forgiveness Does a mother have to forgive someone who killed her child or is it understandable that some sort of revenge would grant her some relief? Do we have to forgive criminals or do we punish them? Justice Why do we have courts if what is just is clear-cut? Selflessness / Selfishness Is it not just natural to be selfish? How do you want to take care of others if you do not take care of yourself IN THE FIRST PLACE? Tolerance Do African countries have to become more tolerant of homo.sexuality? Should tolerance be placed above the belief that homo.sexuality harms a society? It is an interesting topic. |
Re: Your Value Is In Your Values by EfemenaXY: 11:38am On Apr 30, 2016 |
Mindfulness: Nice one. I don't get your stance on the bolded bit. Care to explain further? |
Re: Your Value Is In Your Values by Nobody: 11:41am On Apr 30, 2016 |
EfemenaXY: Some people believe that people who are different (=homs.exuals) should be shown tolerance but is the value of tolerance more important than the belief that it is wrong to tolerate hom.osexuals? What should we tolerate? Religious beliefs that it is wrong and harmful or differences? Now, my own opinion on this does not matter. It is just an example. |
Re: Your Value Is In Your Values by EfemenaXY: 11:50am On Apr 30, 2016 |
Mindfulness: One's definition / belief in what is wrong or right is subjective and open to different interpretation, not to mention varying cultural nuances. Having said that, as long as one's practices doesn't cause harm or infinge on the rights of others, then people should learn to live and let live. I have no issues with homosexuals / transgenders / polygamists, etc |
Re: Your Value Is In Your Values by Nobody: 11:53am On Apr 30, 2016 |
EfemenaXY: The question is: Should we also be tolerant of intolerant people / religious beliefs? |
Re: Your Value Is In Your Values by EfemenaXY: 11:58am On Apr 30, 2016 |
Mindfulness: If intolerant people expected to be tolerated, the least they can do is show some "tolerance" of other's beliefs (religion, etc) that differs from theirs. Any deviation from that should rightly land them in court, explaining why they've broken the law. The key to successful, multi-cultural societies is tolerance. I live in one and can't even begin to describe the immense benefits derived from being a part of it. 1 Like |
Re: Your Value Is In Your Values by Nobody: 6:14pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
EfemenaXY: No need to I love it too. 1 Like |
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