The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry
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The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.
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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.
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For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.
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John 16:7:
But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
(NIV)
However, I am telling you nothing but the truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I go away. Because if I do not go away, the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you [into close fellowship with you]; but if I go away, I will send Him to you [to be in close fellowship with you].
(AMP)
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
(KJV)
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
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1 Corinthians 6:12:
'I have the right to do anything,' you say – but not everything is beneficial. 'I have the right to do anything' – but I will not be mastered by anything.
(NIV)
Everything is permissible (allowable and lawful) for me; but not all things are helpful (good for me to do, expedient and profitable when considered with other things). Everything is lawful for me, but I will not become the slave of anything or be brought under its power.
(AMP)
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
(KJV)
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Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
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Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,—that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses...
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking
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It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
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In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right'
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1 Corinthians 7:1:
Now for the matters you wrote about: 'It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.'
(NIV)
NOW AS to the matters of which you wrote me. It is well [and by that I mean advantageous, expedient, profitable, and wholesome] for a man not to touch a woman [to cohabit with her] but to remain unmarried.
(AMP)
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
(KJV)
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
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It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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1 Corinthians 7:8:
Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.
(NIV)
But to the unmarried people and to the widows, I declare that it is well (good, advantageous, expedient, and wholesome) for them to remain [single] even as I do.
(AMP)
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
(KJV)
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