The Golden Rule...
By lovetmyou
@lovetmyou (111)
Philippines
December 17, 2011 9:37am CST
What do you do when someone does something mean to you? The first thing you may want to do is to hit back and make that person suffer. But that's mostly what's wrong with our world. Too many of us are hitting back.
Doing to others what you would like others to do to you only makes sense. You feel pain when someone hurts you. So do the people you hurt. Loving your neighbor as you want to be loved is what Jesus is talking about. If the whole world would love instead of hate, then we would have heaven on earth.
People in the world need God every bit as much as the people we put in prison. Everybody's heart needs to be changed. Only then do we start caring about others. Do you care?
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6 responses
@ruperto (1552)
• Philippines
17 Dec 11
it seems in the final analysis, though not evident all the time,
... we are destined to give what we can ...
... we are meant to be kind
... we are meant to forgive
... the most important stuff are invisible and intangible
But its fine to forget these once in a while ...
What do you think?
@chiyosan (30183)
• Philippines
22 Dec 11
i would agree with you. We would always be in a situation where sometimes the actions of others will get the best of us... We could even lose our temper.. but after careful thoughts, we could even be forgiving or asking forgiveness. I believe human are naturally kind and are not vengeful.
@lovetmyou (111)
• Philippines
23 Dec 11
Some just have a reputation for vengeful behavior, others it may enhance fitness because other may avoid provoking revenge by avoiding doing harm to the vengeful person. I believe all peoples are vengeful in there heart some way, if you push the right button it will show.
@chiyosan (30183)
• Philippines
26 Mar 12
Well I go by this rule: Live and Let Live. If people go out of their way to get into my business i would fight back and insist on my territory. they would have to be aware that i won't be meddling with them if they are not meddling withh me. it is basically almost the same with the Golden rule. so they ought to know that i won't be in their nerves if they have not started it first.
@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
18 Dec 11
It make far more sense and is far less self-centered to do unto others as they would want you to do to them. Love your neighbor as they want to be loved, not as you want to be loved.
@megamatt (14291)
• United States
22 Dec 11
I think that I am just baffled, wondering why a person would do such a thing. Of course, I think that many times when people do something to you, they could be lashing out at someone else, with you just being the only person who is nearby. It is unfair granted, but when people are agitated and upset, they don't do many things that are fair to say the very least.
There are just times where there is far more to the story that meets the eye. Some people don't really tend to take a lot of things well. You just need to let it go, not to stoop to the level of another person. Granted, there are going to be many times where things are going to be very hard. But that just what separates us as one group to the next.
@davaome (1826)
• Philippines
18 Dec 11
I grew up with the golden rule but not in that kind of sense, mine is "Do not do unto others which you don't want others to do unto you" So I start from my own action and not starting from others.
So whatever people throw at me I just do my own thing an accept who they are, no need to hassle myself with them. But I am guilty of sometimes of "hitting back", people are not perfect and I believe that i am not perfect so I commit mistakes but I try myself to be as calm as i could be.
@jsmalong (109)
•
18 Dec 11
When somebody does something bad to me, my initial reaction is to exercise my patience to the full limit. I choose not to retaliate at once or try to get even. What I will figure out is to exhaust my best efforts to make him/her realize that he/she has done me wrong but I am willing to forgive if remorse is shown. But sometimes, even with the best of intentions, such good act is met with skepticism and refusal. If everything else I do fail, I can only pray that someday he/she gets enlightened and become a better person.
