If you could write a new 10 Commandments, what would they be?

Question

Please, no rehash of the old commandments (you can borrow one here and there, but be original!).

Answer 1

1. Thou shalt receive two days off each week no matter where you work or for whom in order to relax and attend to personal matters.
2. Thou shalt not cut carbs out of thou diet for carbs are good and, in moderation, are good for you.
3. Thou shalt always strive to be honest, curteous, and respectful of others with the exception of rush hour traffic.
4. Thou shalt not purchase anything new until thou hast worn out the previous item.
5. Thou shalt remember the environment and treat it with reverance and respect at all times.
6. Thou shalt resolve conflicts through compromise and talking with one another.
7. Thou shalt use birth control until thou can properly provide for and raise children and thou shalt only have the children thou can provide for.
8. Thou shalt respect and tolerate other people's lives and choices, especially when those choices do not concern or effect you.
9. Thou shalt vote after educating thyself on the issues and the candidates. Thou shalt not vote for a candidate simply because thy father would.
10. Thou shalt ensure that education is free and widely available to all those who wish to access it, young and old, rich and poor.

Answer 2

I think to "command" anyone to do anything negates the divine within. It also sets up a parent/child relationship which I have frankly outgrown when it comes to how I express my spirituality. Instead, I try to have, and work towards, a more adult relationship with the divine. One where there is an interchange of love and respect, and as I grow spiritually, thoughts and ideas that I am more capable of understanding and accepting. Consequently, if I were to write anything of this sort, I would call them the 10 Commitments rather than Commandments. Meaning, when you have grown and are ready and able to fully understand, then you are more able to commit yourself to a way of life that more closely reflects the divine intention. As an example...

1) When you feel and fully comprehend the horror that impacts family and friends at the deliberate taking of a life, you will commit yourself to supporting all life.

This is far better than, Thou Shalt Not Kill, because it puts the onus on the individual and shows them the end goal of their personal spiritual development.

Answer 3

Every human being is equal in dignity and rights and should be treated with respect.

Each person is free to pursue happiness and seek personal fulfillment in any way he chooses, so long as he harms no one and does not interfere with the right of others to do the same. Those who live in a civilized society recognize that they must strive for a reasonable balance of their needs and wants against the needs and wants of others in order to coexist in harmony.

Parents are morally obligated to do their best to provide for the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of their children.

All human beings are entitled to equitable treatment before the law. Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.

The rest can be drawn from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which I consider to be a much better, complete, and rational statement than the Decalogue.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Answer 4

1) Thou shalt not use Elizabethian English
2) Don't screw with anyone else's conception of God, it is sacred
3) Live your own life so that you don't have time to judge anyone else
4) Leave the afterlife thing to me. I've got it all figured out and you don't know sh*t
5) Be helpful to someone who doesn't have what you have
6) Sin is pursuing something that doesn't help anybody
7) Turn off the damn TV. I only gave you one life. Go take a walk or finally fix that broken down El Camino that's been sitting in your driveway. It's an eyesore.
8) Don't hurt animals
9) Or people
10) Treat my creation as a gift because it is.

Answer 5

Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.
Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
Do not harm little children.
Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him

Answer 6

1. Do as you please, as long as it doesnt interfeir with the lives of others
2. smoking and drinking are your own choice and should not be made by others
3. lust is natural, not a sin
4. be a gluton if you choose, for it is your choice
5. When doing harm among others, dont assume you shall be punished soon, god is to busy with his hookers and trying to get his AOL to work.
6. Dont try and push your religion on others, and dont assume that yours is true just because you were raised to think so.
7. Get rid of stereotypes because no matter how much you classify a person, you are classified as an *** or a bisexual
8. abolish all high schools and burn the teachers
9. the american army is doing the work of al-quida (dunno how 2 spell that)
10. dont beleive in god just because you afriad to go to hell "just in case" he does exist.

Answer 7

Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt be honest.
Thou shalt be accepting of everyone and their differences.
Thou shalt help thy fellow man.
Thou shalt not press thyne religion upon anyone else.
Thou shalt vote democrat.

Answer 8

1. Thou shalt not kill.

Now, repeat that 10 times.


...and free ice cream on Thursdays.

Answer 9

easy. ill use George Carlins:

1. Thou shall always be honest and truthful.
2. Thou shall keep thy religion to thyself.

and thats it.

Answer 10

You only need one - Love thy neighbor as thyself.