RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines
January 22, 2017 at 8:33 pm
(January 22, 2017 at 5:39 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: They're open to extreme interpretation and they're contradicted by the Rules of the Earth, but sure.
If you're referring to the Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth I have absolutely no idea how you've arrived at this conclusion, but more power to you for missing the point completely, anyway.
Like I said at the end of the day, I do whatever is best for me and those I care for, regardless of any list made by anyone. However if we're going to start saying, "This set of rules may not apply to you, but they can still be good rules to live by"... why not just choose any old list and find a way to make it work for yourself?
The point being, we shouldn't be letting silly lists of rules written by other people dictate how we live.
“Love is the only bow on Life’s dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
