BonosSaint
Rock n' Roll Doggie
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I believe thought should always be amoral; behavior always ethical. Any opinions?
But simply because something is unethical and yields results does not make it good science. At it's core science is about understanding and revealing the facts ~ as an example you used cloning, presumably human. From a scientific position at this time the technology is not 100% and any attempt would almost certainly yield plenty of miscarriages, even if the clone survived it could quite possibly suffer from defects and die young. If on the other hand more investigation proceeded and the sucess rate was brought to a safer level then I suspect that opposition would be reduced.I think most interesting art and interesting science comes from not letting our preconceived notions of right and wrong interfere. We then can challenge our sacred cows. Thought doesn't not necessarily equal behavior and should not.
At the age of 12, I was a fan of David. He felt familiar, like a pop star could feel familiar. The words of the psalms were as poetic as they were religious, and he was a star. Before David could fulfil the prophecy and become the king of Israel, he had to take quite a beating. He was forced into exile and ended up in a cave in some no-name border town facing the collapse of his ego and abandonment by God. But this is where the soap opera got interesting. This is where David was said to have composed his first psalm -- a blues. That's what a lot of the psalms feel like to me, the blues. Man shouting at God -- "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me?" (Psalm 22).
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David was a star, the Elvis of the Bible, if we can believe the chiselling of Michelangelo. And unusually for such a "rock star," with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had the humility of one who knew his gift worked harder than he ever would. He even danced naked in front of his troops -- the biblical equivalent of the royal walkabout. David was definitely more performance artist than politician.