Question of the Day

[ayoub]

If you were going to write Ten Commandments for your own religion, what would they be?

Comments

[inmyocean.livejournal.com]

"Thou shalt have no ten commandments."


I think it's better for people to learn about their religion, be practicing rather than follow a set of rules that could be misinterpretted (and outdated) as the years go by. Why can't religion be about faith and not about the rules ...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I like yours :)

But, people need some guidance, unfortunately, if for no reason other than to know right from wrong.

[inmyocean.livejournal.com]

Guidance can be made through parables, through stories and watching your peers, elders, church community ...

I don't think set, subjective rules make much of a (positive)difference. Just my opinion.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

It's a good opinion :)

Is it possible for rules to be not subjective?

[inmyocean.livejournal.com]

I don't think that is possible especially if the rules are too open ended. What one person thinks when they make up a rule and want another reads and understands isn't going to be the same. And especially as time passes and it's been a while since the "rule" has been made.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

And the more complex the rule, the worse it gets...

Although, something simple like "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is fairly difficult to misinterpret...

[inmyocean.livejournal.com]

I have to disagree. That's one of the most ambiguous.

What does it mean to kill? Murder, self-defence, manslaughter, in service for/defence of your country ....

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

To kill would encompass all of those, to me, but I see your point

[inmyocean.livejournal.com]

That's exactly my point. Each person sees killing differently.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

As with all of the commandments, when you look at them...

[inmyocean.livejournal.com]

yes .. and back to my original argument .. that's why they're subjective.

6:58am...just me

[teardrops7.livejournal.com]

I believe The Ten Commandments are writtn, often misinterpeted, but a shame that They are no longer thaught to our children. Children are lost and empty, from lack of quidance and spirituallty.

Re: 6:58am...just me

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That's not an answer to the question...

Re: 6:58am...just me/re-written..my interrpetation...

[teardrops7.livejournal.com]

1.NO KILLING
2.NO INCEST
3.NO RAPES
4.NEVER HURT OTHERS,ESPECIALLY CHILDREN!
5.DO ONTO OTHERS AS YOU WILL HAVE THEM DO ONTO YOU!
6.RELIOUS WARS ARE OXIMORONS,AS SUCH SHOULD STOP
7.BE FAITHFUL IN YOUR LOVE
8.TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL
9.LOVE AND YOU WILL RECEIVE LOVE
10.THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTURY...in doing so, is to cause pain to another.

Re: 6:58am...just me/re-written..my interrpetation...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Good list!

Re: 6:58am...just me/re-written..my interrpetation...

[teardrops7.livejournal.com]

Glad to make you happy...you should have seen how fast I posted after your first comment...tehe

[voldelange.livejournal.com]

1.Do whatever you consider to be good as long as it's for the good of evryone else.X 5

now if someone can say what is good for everyone
...well...those could respect the rule...

2.Believe in yourself! X 5

:)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Good answer

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

I never had 10. The original 10 for me are boiled down to the forst 2 on my list. My phrasing has changed since my very first post back in January 2005, but here goes.

1. One must strive to become better than what one is.
2. Be nice until it is time to defend one's self.
3. People as a whole are stupid.
4. People as a whole are assholes. Regardless of this, one should try and be polite when possible.
5. In order for someone to eat, something must die.
6. It is the natural state of the universe to exist in dichotomy for contrast only; mono-polarity and absolutes are created only with imagination and are illusions. Reality exists in between the two illusions.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

1 ans 2 are good :)

[monkey.livejournal.com]

I only need one.

1] Don't Steal.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Good one!

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

1)If someone does you a solid, return the solid.

2)Don't litter.

3)Never stop learning.

4)Have sex without guilt.

5)Make time for singing and dancing and play.

6)Be clean and don't smell.

7)Be personally responsible for yourself and your belongings.

8)But don't be personally responsible for the actions of others that have nothing to do with you.

9)Don't be a shit.

10)Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back in time for breakfast.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

All good :D

Especially No. 10 :D

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Thou shalt have no other fantasy authors before J.R.R. Tolkien.

Thou shalt make to thyself no lame excuses for your bad behavior, be it of omission or commission.

Thou shalt not take the name of G.K. Chesterton in vain.

Remember fencing practice, and keep it holy.

Honor thy receptionist and thy cashier, that thy days may be long upon the earth.

Thou shalt not waste time doing nothing either useful or enjoyable.

Thou shalt not commit pedantry.

Thou shalt not "borrow" people's pens without returning them.

Thou shalt not use fudgy statistics to prove your point.

Thou shalt not be willfully miserable.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

can't...stop...laughing

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

*laughs* My work here is done!

okay....

[mikki-rosie.livejournal.com]

the 0 rule... try not to have to have rules for you to act in the manner you think is fitting for people to act.

but if you feel like you ought to have some, then:

1. thou shalt ALWAYS say thank you when someone holds open the door for you (*seethe* i hate when people don't.. like i'm their own personal doorperson or something???*)

2. try really hard not to do things maliciously to other folks, unless you really think they deserve it. and if you do, do not whine when there are consequences.

3. do not force the words of a book that someone else does not believe down their throat. and if you do, do not whine when the book is thrust up your butt.

4. don't make arbitrary rules that are so generic as to allow for no circumstantial consideration. [no lying makes it really hard to give a surprise party, not everyone is hurt when their husband sleeps with another woman (and might even like it *gasp*), and trust me, if someone is coming at me or my child with a tire iron, and i have any means at all to stop them, there's gonnna be some killing.]

5. thou absolutely shalt not use bad logic to try to prove an offensive opinion, and then be pissed when someone picks your flimsy argument apart. and if you do, then thou shalt not be surprised when they proceed to tell you what an butthead you are.

(you mentioned right and wrong in a previous reply-post. i tend to completely shy away from both of those words because they are so VERY subjective, it is impossible to use them in any logical argument. i have had friends express to me their opinion that something was "so very wrong!" to them, and have other friends genuinely shocked that anyone thought said thing was wrong! the reverse has also occurred... you'd be surpised what some people think is "right".)

~mikki (surfed over from xjenavivex)

Re: okay....

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Very excellent rules!

And you're welcome anytime :)

Re: okay....

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

those are great