Mormons Missionaries Don't Only Preaching, But Also Picking Trashes Off Phnom Penh's Street

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nemo wrote:Mission accomplished as the American cousins are fond of saying when anything could be further from the truth.
Ha! Good job. :thumb:
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juansweetpotato wrote:
Username Taken wrote:Good on 'em, however, their efforts are in vain. The trash will be there again tomorrow.

The city/country needs rubbish bins in public areas.
And, more importantly, public education about waste disposal. With education they will soon appreciate a much cleaner city, less rats, no stinking heaps of garbage, clean waterways. A city to be proud of.

But, this is a good start. Let's hope it's contagious.
After reading through this thread, I was just thinking what a sad state of Cambodian affairs it is that we are all relying on the Mormons for (trash) salvation.

I was cleaning up my stairwell the other week. Two flights of external stairs. The neighbors were all giving me dirty looks. I decided it may be better just to walk through the filth they throw everywhere rather than to upset them.
JSP: Next time you pick up some rubbish, don't forget to take some selfies and put them on fb. No point doing good deeds if no one sees them. :roll:

As for the neighbours, they are probably just jealous of that merit that you're collecting (along with the rubbish.) :thumb: (As well as the fact that by cleaning up their shit, you make them look like lazy pigs. No wonder they hate you. ;) )
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Anchor Moy wrote:
juansweetpotato wrote:
Username Taken wrote:Good on 'em, however, their efforts are in vain. The trash will be there again tomorrow.

The city/country needs rubbish bins in public areas.
And, more importantly, public education about waste disposal. With education they will soon appreciate a much cleaner city, less rats, no stinking heaps of garbage, clean waterways. A city to be proud of.

But, this is a good start. Let's hope it's contagious.
After reading through this thread, I was just thinking what a sad state of Cambodian affairs it is that we are all relying on the Mormons for (trash) salvation.

I was cleaning up my stairwell the other week. Two flights of external stairs. The neighbors were all giving me dirty looks. I decided it may be better just to walk through the filth they throw everywhere rather than to upset them.
JSP: Next time you pick up some rubbish, don't forget to take some selfies and put them on fb. No point doing good deeds if no one sees them. :roll:

As for the neighbours, they are probably just jealous of that merit that you're collecting (along with the rubbish.) :thumb: (As well as the fact that by cleaning up their shit, you make them look like lazy pigs. No wonder they hate you. ;) )
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nemo wrote:Certainly worked well in Singapore and KL.
Confucians and Muslims have hell as well.
Confucians most certainly do not have hell, though Buddhists have many and Muslims share the Christian one (along with Jews amusingly enough).

Singapore's punishment heavy regime has certainly kept a tidy, though sterile, house. Malaysia's... not so much.
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I defer to your superior knowledge with this story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-elle ... 81190.html
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"confusian" (pun intended) is actually a teaching on moral conduct, rules, ethics, traditional and way of life etc, but its teaching are based on buddhism and taoism, which both have hells, but "confusian" itself is not a religion thus it has no hell or heaven, but later on scholars construed it as a religion. that is why the "confusian"
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bolueeleh wrote:"confusian" (pun intended) is actually a teaching on moral conduct, rules, ethics, traditional and way of life etc, but its teaching are based on buddhism and taoism, which both have hells, but "confusian" itself is not a religion thus it has no hell or heaven, but later on scholars construed it as a religion. that is why the "confusian"
lol. It's those neo-Confucianists you gotta watch out for.
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bolueeleh wrote:"confusian" (pun intended) is actually a teaching on moral conduct, rules, ethics, traditional and way of life etc, but its teaching are based on buddhism and taoism, which both have hells, but "confusian" itself is not a religion thus it has no hell or heaven, but later on scholars construed it as a religion. that is why the "confusian"
100% correct. Confucius also believed that there was only one life and when we died, it was over - no heavens or hells in his philosophy at all. The Chinese and Vietnamese (the two most Confucian societies) however (like many other parts of Asia) have taken on (over the course of time) animism, Buddhism, Daoism, and a bunch of other religions which do have hells. But pure Confucianism has no hell; it's a societal rather than religious construction.
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nemo wrote:I defer to your superior knowledge with this story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-elle ... 81190.html
Quoting the HuffPost is a bit like quoting Wikipedia. Mildly satisfying but unlikely to be correct. Numbers of readers may make their unpaid journalists feel good but unfortunately they don't pay for fact checking, etc.
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You will find the same apocryphal follkloric story from many sources, this is evident to any reader.
Non readers perhaps would prefer to attack the source rather than the content.

However, this is neither academia or a debating club particularly on the niceties of philosophic nomenclature.

It is clear that many of those in Confucian societies do in fact believe in hell, else this story regarding Confucius's alleged dream would have died generations ago.
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