This book contains rules for living which sound just and good. If you read it, you'd most likely choose to live according to its teachings.
Of course, the book was written by my own self, and there are elements of my own personal bias in it. Basic human respect is paramount. Killing is okay if it's in revenge. Rape, murder, theft, and other crimes are bad. Some drug use is acceptable.
Years pass. Decades. Centuries. That book has changed hands through generations and generations. Although I, the original author, have long since turned to dust, the text I penned lives on.
Over time, some of the caretakers of my holy text have had their own ideas about some of its elements, and as a result they edit my original words, or append to the text some of their own essays or gospels rooted in their own philosophy or morality.
Based upon this, could you trust that the words you're reading can be trusted to be mine and mine alone, pristine from my mind and influenced by no other?
2007-11-30
02:00:48
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