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Frank Pellow

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This is proving to be quite popular.  

I've now made five of them in total and, just this week, two of my nieces saw a photo of the one that I made for another niece and asked me to make one for each of them as well.

Other than my our annual year-end greeting cards, I will have cut more of this design than of any  other.

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You do nice work and display it well, I will have to think about the statement "Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told.  Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right."  H. L. Mencken". I attend a church for worship and praise to God, read the Bible. That is where the base for my morality come from. If  I were to develop my own standard for morality ---- well that could be scary . Just saying

 I really appreciate you, your quality of  workmanship and look forward to more of your postings

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Great job! I really don't feel it is that controversial of a statement. While I am a Christian, I totally agree with the message of your piece. From what I understand Jesus himself wasn't a fan of religion. Most of the people he had a problem with were religious leaders who tried to get people to follow all of their manmade rules and felt they were better than others because of all their outward piousness while they were rotten on the inside. One of my favorite verses is 1 Corinthians 13:13 "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love" which seems to indicate "Love is more important than faith." I also agree with your statement about not blindly following dictates that don't ring true in your heart. Thanks for sharing your work. 

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57 minutes ago, Norm Fengstad said:

You do nice work and display it well, I will have to think about the statement "Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told.  Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right."  H. L. Mencken". I attend a church for worship and praise to God, read the Bible. That is where the base for my morality come from. If  I were to develop my own standard for morality ---- well that could be scary . Just saying

 I really appreciate you, your quality of  workmanship and look forward to more of your postings

I thank you for you complements on my work.

It appears that you are struggling with H.L Menchen's quote.  I guess your struggle is because, for you, Morality is derived from Religion.  The difficulty is that one can derive different moral guidelines from different religions and even from different interpretations of the same religion.  

I prefer to think that Morality comes from the basic Decency and Goodness of most humans.  Then, I couple that with Common Sense.

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I have no argument about the cutting, it is well done, and if that is your/anyones belief, OK.  I'm just not sure it is appropriate to envoke it in this kind of forum...kinda like politics..to me a no no.  

However I must state something about the words used in the quote.  I firmly believe there is NO SUCH THING as "Right" (or "Wrong") in a pure morality sense.  Right and wrong are only concepts defined by laws (supposedly for the good of the people) and/or long standing and varying cultures from all over.  All of which the people have created in an attempt to define what their beiefs teach.   

I do believe there is a thing called "Good", which I can accept as a morality virtue.   Its counterpart, often reffered to as "Evil" is simply the absence of Good.  Sort of like Heat and Cold.  We know sicentifically that there is really no such thing as cold as it is only the absence of Heat. This may be a subject for discussion at another place and time...but probably not on this site!

With that being said, I - only me - do not find the quote to have any basis in truism or fact and my belief has abolutely nothing to do with religion or politics. 

Please, lets keep this forum strickly about Scroll work!  

 

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23 hours ago, Frank Pellow said:

I thank you for you complements on my work.

It appears that you are struggling with H.L Menchen's quote.  I guess your struggle is because, for you, Morality is derived from Religion.  The difficulty is that one can derive different moral guidelines from different religions and even from different interpretations of the same religion.  

I prefer to think that Morality comes from the basic Decency and Goodness of most humans.  Then, I couple that with Common Sense.

Can't say I really struggled with the quote, it did get me thinking about the topic,although only for a short while. After I hit the submit reply button I realized this is not the venue to discuss opinions other than about our hobby. Something like squeezing to much toothpaste onto the brush you can't put the extra back into the tube.

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20 hours ago, FrankEV said:

I have no argument about the cutting, it is well done, and if that is your/anyones belief, OK.  I'm just not sure it is appropriate to envoke it in this kind of forum...kinda like politics..to me a no no.  

However I must state something about the words used in the quote.  I firmly believe there is NO SUCH THING as "Right" (or "Wrong") in a pure morality sense.  Right and wrong are only concepts defined by laws (supposedly for the good of the people) and/or long standing and varying cultures from all over.  All of which the people have created in an attempt to define what their beiefs teach.   

I do believe there is a thing called "Good", which I can accept as a morality virtue.   Its counterpart, often reffered to as "Evil" is simply the absence of Good.  Sort of like Heat and Cold.  We know sicentifically that there is really no such thing as cold as it is only the absence of Heat. This may be a subject for discussion at another place and time...but probably not on this site!

With that being said, I - only me - do not find the quote to have any basis in truism or fact and my belief has abolutely nothing to do with religion or politics. 

Please, lets keep this forum strickly about Scroll work!  

 

you are absolutely right this is not the venue to discuss these type of things. I appreciate your comments have a good day and happy scrolling

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