GC Wrote:To forget is to forgive. In the name of benevolence and kindness, who or what sets the standard for these, if there is no true standard then they are just concepts and if they are concepts then their definitions only depend on each individual. Maybe that's why there is a lack of integrity in the world today, no one wants an absolute standard to anything, it's like do what feels right to you and screw everything/body else. Today, it's do not apply your standard to me, I have the one that works best for me, you do as you desire and I'll do as I desire and to hell with the rest of the world. That is a lousy way for people to think and live but they do and yes I'll include some christians in that. Without a true standard this is the world we have and it will get much worse.
I would prefer we set our own standards. I give much greater respect to another who is moral and decent and kind because they want to be, rather than because a book told them to be or they will be punished. It is much more sincere.
And even Christendom, with all its members, cannot even agree on which version of the Bible is the correct "standard" to use, and none of them interprets that standard the same way. I much prefer a person who follows a standard of ethics or morals derived from within rather than one set down in Leviticus or Philemon.
James.
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
