Why the truth is not in them ??

..forgive me Lord but I have sinned....can’t stop coveting those big mbl speakers and a suitable room to put them in!!!!!

Luckily my neighbors don’t have that either.

...can't speak for him....but I suspect you will be fine. :)

mahgister, 

We are all sinners no doubt, but personally, I am willing to give you a pass!

Cheers!

Maybe but the Romans didn’t turn out so well in the end either. Nor the barbarians.

The book is still open for us all these days but its not looking good in many parts from a ten commandments perspective.....we’ll see!

mahgister, it helps to keep in mind a lot of the criticism is coming from people with a tenuous connection with reality... two guys make stuff up about it, attack me personally, and one even ignores actual ad hominems directed at me and accuses me of being the one resorting to ad hominems. Unreal.....

If that’s how ill-equipped they are to understand clear concise prose imagine how they must struggle with your ideas. .... But to get complex and hard to express ideas it helps to be capable of having ideas and thinking about things. This rules them out....

Most of what we’re doing is frankly beyond them. Might be literally truly beyond them, as in no matter what they never will get it. Or might be beyond them merely by virtue of being too physically or mentally lazy to get up off the comfortable couch and try. Either way they’re not getting it.

.....To do what we do takes imagination, creativity, intelligence, and perseverance. It takes initiative. Qualities they lack.....Talk is all they have. ..... But who knows, trashing others may be the one thing that gives their lives meaning.

Someone better be careful about that "false witness" thing. That’s a lot of trash talking!

Whatever happened to taking the high road?

Most people would probably agree with The Ten Commandments for guiding principles. Those are pretty fundamental but a very good foundation to adhere by. Hence, their longevity. If you can’t, at least to some practical degree, things usually head south.

After that, things get even tougher.

To summarize:

The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)1“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.2“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.3“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.4“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.5“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.6“You shall not murder.7“You shall not commit adultery.8“You shall not steal.9“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.10“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

P.S.: coveting your neighbor’s hifi is right out!!!

Trust is a universal concept. No one ideology owns it. Or species for that matter.

Trust is largely determined by perspective.
Different perspectives is not the Same as nihilism. It just means people see things differently from their particular unique perspective in the world.

When all see the same thing from different perspectives then there is truth. When there is truth there is trust. 

Regarding hifi transactions, there are always a few bad apples in the barrel.
Verify then trust.