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Prager University: Actions Matter (Not Thoughts)

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Uploaded by on Jan 12, 2010

Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and best selling author, discusses the significant difference between what we do (our actions) and our thoughts and intentions.

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  • Are you a Muslim?

  • ....But Jesus took commandments a step further to OUR thoughts...IF(conditional)you look with lust YOU Have committed adultery IN THE HEART. IF you HATE....YOU Have committed Murder...Thoughts do play a part in our lives....

  • Score 3 credits for me!

  • @arccotangent

    "Good" is pretty subjective. Prager isn't saying that Nazis' intention to kill the Jews was meritorious, he is saying that the Nazis did not intend to do things they considered evil and abhorrent. They tried to do what they THOUGHT was good - because, obviously, their values were quite a bit different from yours or mine or Dennis Prager's.

  • I love Prager; he's the only righty I listen to. It's his simplicity that I appreciate. But sometimes he is TOO simplistic. Most outcomes are the result of intentions. You go on a date with the pretty girl because you INTENTIONALLY asked her out. You score a goal because you INTENTIONALLY kicked the ball. And you receive a paycheck because you INTENTIONALLY went to work and did your job.

    Let's give more credit to those that INTEND to do things.

  • Feelings are feelings. Unless they are volitionally accepted and attached to, they are only arising and passing phenomena perceivable in consciousness.

  • Is it wrong that I laughed when the lady in the chair got zapped?  lol

  • The Nazi's intentions were to kill all of the Jews. How is that good intentions? There is no such thing as bad good intentions. There is the intention to do something right or the intention to do something wrong. Wanting to do right is good intentions. Wanting to kill another race because you believe you are superior and you think you would be happier without their stink around, is selfish and the opposite of Love... bad intentions.

  • Can we pleace have you as the leader of the USA? :D

  • Both actions and thoughts matter. Heart and mind influence the outcomes together. One gets what one saws. Dictators are in for the power and they just claim that they are doing for greater good; otherwise, who would follow them? Bad hearts cannot produce true good actions, maybe actions seem to be good at the beginning, but the true colour will show. What about good hearts that produce bad actions? Really? You really know inner most thoughts and the most secret part of hearts of ppl?

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