Do you think you're a good person?
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I try to be a good person and I think that I largely succeed at it.
I think a good person is someone who treats others with respect even when he/she is of a different opinion than them or does not actually like them. I do not hold with needless namecalling or violence, though sometimes I cannot help it and vent my feelings with a bit of swearing or slamming doors shut.
I also think that a good person is somebody who does not cause deliberate harm or hurt to others. At the same time I am aware that there are times when it may be neccessary to defend the majority against deviant individuals that break this rule, but I think that the punishment should always be in proportion to the severity of the transgression.
A good person may also use white lies when it helps not to hurt other people's feelings. Other than that though I think that telling th truth should be generally preferred.
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I was always wanted to be pure, unaldulterated evil to experience what that felt like. Good and bad are relative terms, most suicide bombers likely consider themselves to be good for giving their all to their cause. The victim's family I am certain don't. I aim to be courageous and sincere.
Sometimes it annoys me when people try to generalize, are you a good person? what level are we expected to attain, or what things to be done,to attain goodness? I believe we humans are born genuinely good. I am kind of mad so maybe this is an offshoot of that.
Goodness=honesty,loyalty,truth in all areas in my opinion.So yes I suppose I am a good person.
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I chose my words very carefully for this reason. The question is actually "Do you think you're a good person?". That's very different than "Are you a good person?". Seriously, Hitler probably thought he was a good person. (Not that he too didn't have a Buddha seed, lotusblossom )
I am interested in what people's concept of good is. I think "goodness" is largely an opinion.
I've been greatly disliked by some people in my life and I'm sure they didn't think I was a good person, but then to people who love me, I think I seem pretty thoughtful and loving. It's a perspective thing, too.
I don't really believe anyone is either good or bad. I think sometimes people just have good intentions and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they do good things and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they're aware that they're being bad and sometimes they're not. That said, here's how I rate people's overall goodness:
1. People with good intentions + good deeds + unawareness of being a goody-goody
2. People with good intentions + good deeds + awareness of being a goody-goody
3. People with good intentions + bad deeds + unawareness that they're doing it all wrong
4. People with good intentions + bad deeds + awareness that they're doing it all wrong
5. People with bad intentions + bad deeds + unawareness that they're doing it all wrong
6. People with bad intentions + bad deeds + awareness that they're doing it all wrong
I've met way too many #6s (aka scum of the earth), but as of today no #1 yet. As for me, I alternate between #2 and #4. (And for the record, I'd peg Hitler as a mostly #3. I know every other person in the world thinks he was pure evil, but I'm not convinced.)
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I'm not sure if I'm a good person or not. My family & some others who know me think I'm extremely selfish, lazy, demanding & that I am incapable of caring about anyone but myself. Some even think that I'm a potential serial killer I try to be a good person because I care very deeply but I feel like I must be an extremely selfish person because I am nothing but a burden to my family & the American tax payer. I don't want to be like my parents & others think I do but I find the more I try not to be; the worse things get & I end up causing more problems & more expenses. If If I truly was a good unselfish person; I would of killed myself a long time ago because my continuing existence is making things worse & not better.
I think a good person is someone who tries to help others or better things for others instead of taking advantage of em or screwing em over.
I know people who are good but they all have their faults but they try
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I thought this was going to be a Way of the Master thread, but I was wrong.
Everyone has lied, cheated, stolen, had lust in their heart and been angry enough to murder. No one is good. Everyone will go to hell, unless they ask Jesus for forgiveness. That's the gist of the Way of the Master. they always start out their witnessing with the question: "do you think you are a good person?" Google it for more info. I'm new, so I 'm still not allowed to post links.
More later. Good night.
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Everyone has lied, cheated, stolen, had lust in their heart and been angry enough to murder. No one is good. Everyone will go to hell, unless they ask Jesus for forgiveness. That's the gist of the Way of the Master. they always start out their witnessing with the question: "do you think you are a good person?" Google it for more info. I'm new, so I 'm still not allowed to post links.
More later. Good night.
Interesting. My intentions weren't religious in nature, just honest curiosity.
I did just google that, though. Not my cup of tea.
Everyone has lied, cheated, stolen, had lust in their heart and been angry enough to murder. No one is good. Everyone will go to hell, unless they ask Jesus for forgiveness. That's the gist of the Way of the Master. they always start out their witnessing with the question: "do you think you are a good person?" Google it for more info. I'm new, so I 'm still not allowed to post links.
More later. Good night.
Satanists don't consider me as a good person too
Hulk consider I'm too skinny to be good
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there are some sentiments in here that i consider to be quite beautiful.
I think good vs bad probably has it roots in abrahamic religions, but I prefer the eastern philosophy where everyone has a 'buddha' light within them even murderers and can 'water' the seeds of positivity or negativity equally in anyone. So for example if you watch and eat bad things you will bring out more of your bad qualities and if you eat good and have good experience it will bring out more of your positive qualities. We all have the same potential and same value we just alter what we are displaying to the outside world by the actions we do to ourselves which leads to what we do to others. I think the story of Angulimala excemplifies this as he went from being a mass murderer to being one of the best bodhisattvas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angulimala
and some amazing thoughts in here as well.
Everyone has lied, cheated, stolen, had lust in their heart and been angry enough to murder. No one is good. Everyone will go to hell, unless they ask Jesus for forgiveness. That's the gist of the Way of the Master. they always start out their witnessing with the question: "do you think you are a good person?" Google it for more info. I'm new, so I 'm still not allowed to post links.
and this is quite interesting, too.
for me, i don't really know what being a good person *is* in any real sense, so i really admire other people's ability to verbalize their own beliefs. i don't have a solid belief system or morality so being "good" is sort of irrelevant. i do try to behave ethically and responsibly.
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