<p>@Narcissa</p>
<p>What if 3 and 4 conflict? You can’t have commandments that contradict each other.</p>
<p>Principles, in this order:
- Zeal/Enthusiasm
- Austerity/Rationality
- Resilience
- Discipline
- Ambition
- Self
- Meticulity
Some guidelines for sticking to them:</p>
<ol>
<li>BELIEVE NOTHING.</li>
<li>Few, if any, maxims are valid. There might not be a nontautological universal truth after all.</li>
<li>Rights are artificial - make sure you have a solid, at least situational argument to defend what you deserve.</li>
<li>You are not independent. You depend on society. Do not hold malice against anyone and avoid maintaining a misunderstanding.</li>
<li>Ask, even if the question seems a little inappropriate or out-of-place. You may well be surprised by the answer.</li>
<li>Liberalism and tolerance are logic applied to humans. Never forget that.</li>
<li>Look into anything and you will find mathematics. Look into 2 things and the math will be comparable.</li>
<li>Try to find out what you don’t know. Don’t ignore what you can’t know.</li>
<li><p>Be kind to everyone in intimacy.</p></li>
<li><p>Whether it’s going to help you should be an afterthought. Whether it’s possible should be a refinement.</p></li>
<li><p>Humility will do nothing for you in and of itself, but pretend to be humble when you are around sillies. The same thing goes foor pride, shame, guilt and remorse.</p></li>
<li><p>Make use of everything and everyone. Seek not revenge but opportunity.</p></li>
<li><p>Do not start a fight you’ll lose.</p></li>
<li><p>If you want to be accepted for who you are, kill yourself. What is important is what you do. Remain useful.</p></li>
<li><p>Instead of killing, capture when possible.</p></li>
<li><p>People forget many things, but they are likely to remember how you make them feel.</p></li>
<li><p>Be a saint. It is good for your mental, social and physical health.</p></li>
<li><p>Happiness can be counterproductive, but remember it is the objective.</p></li>
<li><p>Have no enemies. No-one is so important, and your ambitions should transcend person. PS: Enemy-relationships are usually formed from misunderstandings, and unless there is unequivocal motivation to render nonexistence unto a former antagonist, the “enemy” should be regarded as a useful human being.</p></li>
<li><p>The audience doesn’t care if you’re playing the right notes, but get in line as soon as you can.</p></li>
<li><p>My Haiku Sextet: [Do not plagiarize; it is on official record.]
“Like the norms of the masses,
Every trend passes
As it never was,
And like birth of life,
Greatness comes from strife
the normal man never does.
Like blossoms of the night,
You do not need the light
to be beautiful.
And like birds that cannot fly,
You do not need the sky
to be bountiful.
The river that only goes
Where its brother flows
Will never have a name,
But he of his own mind
He unlike all his kind
He is made for fame.”</p></li>
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<p>13. *The whole is inferior to each of its parts. *The only motivation for fitting in is pragmatism, and it usually motivates against the norm.</p>
<p>Principles:
- Silly and crazy.
- Synchronizing Nonconformity.
- Speak Loudly.</p>
<p>Laws:
- Nothing comes from nothing.
- Live for the day.
- All laws are made to be broken.</p>
<p>Attitudes toward life
- Political powers grow out from the barrel of a gun.
- You can get anything you want with kind words and a gun, but you can’t get it with only kind words.
- I live, I think, I die.</p>
<p>@pharmakeus01</p>
<p>Your attitudes toward life are interesting to say the least. I completely agree with number 1. However, I take great issue with number 2. What about the honest people who work and make voluntary exchanges (e.g. capitalism)? Isn’t that obtaining something without a gun?</p>
<p>w/o efforts there’s no gain</p>
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<p>If you’re going to quote Mao, at least say so.</p>
<p>Don’t get yourself into trouble.</p>
<p>Set an example, live life the way I would have others live. DO NOT BE A HYPOCRITE!!! Help at least one person a day. Be the best person possible, mind my own business, but be acutely aware of the emotions of others, have a strong work ethic, and above all, be happy, be someone I would want to be friends with. Pretty simple, although I must confess I fall short. Nobody’s perfect…Also, maintain your identity, if you don’t know who you are, who does? And be tolerant! Tolerance is paramount to survival of not just me, but everyone else. People die everyday simply because of intolerance.</p>
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<p>Most lists of commandments have rules that can contradict each other. Think of one way that the ten commandments can contradict right now. </p>
<p>ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN</p>
<p>(a guide for Global Leadership)</p>
<p>All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.</p>
<p>These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.</p>
<p>Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.</p>
<p>And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.</p>
<p>Robert Fulghum</p>