Religion:
Anna re "Do Unto Others"

I don't know which I agree with. On one hand - just because we meet a worshipper of the Crocodile God who craves the honour of being thrown into a pit doesn't mean we have to throw him in or be thrown in. We live in a world with 6 billion people. That's like living on the same planet with 6 billion other worlds. (Everyone has their own) How can we know what everybody else wants? In truth, most of us aren't even sure what we want.

BUT...! It's such a negative, non active bordering on a self justified apathetic approach to life! Bad people and good people (or are they the same?) living in the same world can't live by the golden rule - at least in the way it is written.

Maybe it needs to be written into what it truly means... does anyone even know???

—Anna
April 2003

You've hit on what's so intriguing about the Golden Rule. It's simple, universal, and appealing, yet impossible to define. That's what makes it relative rather than objective, and what's allowed it to move forward with the culture while the Bible's objective laws have often have the opposite effect.

—JoT
April 2004, April 2005

Gay Pride Parade, Seattle, 2003

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