Theos-Talk Archives (December 1999 Message tl00109)

JRC wrote:
> There are many, many more reasons - if you really want to *think* about
> this. If you are willing to challenge one of those ideas (that the
> "Golden Rule" is an unquestionable "good") that has been thoughtlessly
> accepted and preached for centuries.

	The key word, of course, is "thoughtlessly". Any rule, practiced
without mindfulness, eventually becomes worthless.

	I have a phrasing of the "golden rule" which turns it into more of a
statement of universal principal, rather than a goal to be met: What you
do to others, you are doing to yourself, and what you do to yourself,
you are doing to others.

	Bart Lidofsky