The Five Commandments of Sarah (by sarah)
My five commandments (in response to the author Anne Rice's question on Facebook)
- Love all including yourself
- cause the least possible harm
- think for yourself
- listen to others but make up your own mind
- Do not be wasteful
What I found interesting was that many people just rehashed the biblical code with no thought as to the base concepts. I do not like the 10 commandments mainly due to them reguarding me as possession of my husband/family. But there was some under laying concepts there thickly overlain by the culture of the time. My 5 have no divine providence they are just the result of me thinking how I would like to live my life and how I think others should too.
The fifth is really part of the second in the same way that making up your own mind is thinking for yourself. Taking responsibility for your own actions I could have slipped in there but erroniously felt it was part of the thinking for yourself - though in hindsight it would make a good fifth.
Mon 9th Apr 2012 9:16 pm 
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