dye

If a person value God's order as the most important, everything else is only secondary.  'Duty' to them can only mean duty to God.

However our value is dependent on our understanding of the world.  Our understanding of the world depends on our experience in the world (parents, education) and the biological state.

If we are unlucky and are in their shoe, chance is high that we will be the same...

I don't think it is an embarrasment to admit to be a Christian.  Everyone had inherited some crazy ideas.

Consider the many Sikh living in Hong Kong.  There is nothing embarrass about dressing in their religious headgear with their religious beard.  (Where I live in Hong Kong, there is a Sikh elementary school.  Part of the uniform is the turban on the head.)



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dye

Word History: A cynic may be pardoned for thinking that this is a dog's life. The Greek word kunikos, from which cynic comes, was originally an adjective meaning "doglike," from kuōn, "dog." The word was probably applied to the Cynic philosophers because of the nickname kuōn given to Diogenes of Sinope, the prototypical Cynic. He is reported to have been seen barking in public, urinating on the leg of a table, and masturbating on the street. The first use of the word recorded in English, in a work published from 1547 to 1564, is in the plural for members of this philosophical sect. In 1596 we find the first instance of cynic meaning "faultfinder," a sense that was to develop into our modern sense. The meaning "faultfinder" came naturally from the behavior of countless Cynics who in their pursuit of virtue pointed out the flaws in others. Such faultfinding could lead quite naturally to the belief associated with cynics of today that selfishness determines human behavior.

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cyn·ic  又叫 「憤世嫉俗者」

A person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness

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