You have to make the list of commandments. It can be as long as you like.
1. Respect yourself. 2. Respect others. 3. Respect our world. 4. Make our world a better place because you have been here. Replace the word "world" with "classroom" and add an additional rule, "Take chances to learn and grow.", and this matches exactly a poster I've created and posted on my middle school classroom wall.
It works well for self-conscious, hormonally-impaired middle school students. I guess it would stand a chance with my new civilization.
What does respecting our world imply? How does one respect a non-sentient being that is beyond the reach of our mental grasp? Number four reminds me of the campfire rule. It states something along the following lines: "Leave the place you use as your camp as it were or better", implying that leaving it in a worse condition than what you visited it with is not the way to do it.
- Do not make fear into your guide of actions if someone's life is not in a threat; - Remember that you are a grain in an ocean of grains: important in itself, yet insignificant as a whole; - Devise your own meaning for your life, for life itself is without meaning; - Make choices, lest you will have choices made for you; - Embody your mind, and mind your body; For a draft, those five shall do. I'd add something to the list about changes, but I feel like it's already there under the "fear" commandment. I don't feel like the list is complete, either - as I said, it's a draft.
- Devise your own meaning for your life, for life itself is without meaning; I like it.- Remember that you are a grain in an ocean of grains: important in itself, yet insignificant as a whole;
It all comes from my discoveries about human nature. People tend to assume, under the influence of their untamed/undamaged egos, that they're of utmost importance to the world, preferring to see their own surroundings as the whole world. Any other person would attest to the falsehood of such perception, yet many of the same people are in the same trap: "No, you aren't the most important person in the world! I am!". Some people - those who are given a harsh treatment from life, learn of their grainness very quickly and, often, at a very young age; others, secured away from the world by their parents and their surroundings, grow to believe that it's all about them. This is the reason I propose that everyone suffers a little in their life: when you hit rock bottom, everything that used to be median to you appears very lovely; this applies to any level of depth, providing proportional results for your worldview. The second one is fairly obvious. It's the wishful thinking and the fetishization that people apply to "life" in order to make sense of it. Life has to have meaning, otherwise, what do I live for? In this question, they don't notice - for one reason or another, and I'm still looking for it - that it's not about the life, or the people around them, or their job or anything of such manner: it's about them, and how they feel about life. It's not that they feel sorrow for life not having meaning - it's that they feel sorrow for their life not having meaning. Therefore, every single life meaning is a derivative of one's desires, wishes and ideals. Life ain't supposed to give you any meaning on its own: it's a process, not an entity capable of such complex constructions. You are supposed to. Both, of course, are self-centered biases: that our world - or, the world - is us, and/or vice versa. We assume that our living equates to our world, and that our world equates exactly to us, because we don't have the experience necessary to see it otherwise. We gain it through empathy, through seeing others suffer as often as we do from our own suffering. Proper emotional connection - that is, devoid of manipulations of any sorts - is necessary to make us into mentally healthy adults, and don't know what's at fault, but many first- and second-worlders are missing out on that important part of living.
I don't know if you noticed my username, but what you've described are some of the fundamental concepts of existentialism.
I wanted a username different from any other of my usual usernames. It was just the first thing that came to mind that I liked.
honestly if i had to make the effort into writing a list of commandments i'd probably spring for an entire holy book as well, but something cool like the book of revelation. i've always felt that there's quite a lot of guff in the bible that could have been avoided so that would be a very nice opportunity
Why judge a person's actions? I feel intentions are more important.
Your intentions do not affect anyone, in any way. Only your actions do.