How does this phrase phase you? If someone treats you nice, you treat them nice back? If someone treats you crappy, do you treat them badly back?
I treat people nicely, and talk nicely to people reguardless of how rude they are to me! My opinion on this is, if someone is rude to me, they are the ones having a issue not me!
So, should I treat them rudely back, if they do so to me? What's your opinion on 'Treating others the way you want to be treated'?
2007-09-18 04:22:58 · 12 answers · asked by SDC 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Golden Rule is to treat others the way you want to be treated...regardless of how they treat you.
The opposite it to treat others they way they treat you.
I prefer the first way. It's not always easy but I feel better when I'm nice to someone...even when they are not nice to me. But if someone is down right insulting and hurtful...it's just best to avoid that person if possible.
2007-09-18 05:01:10 · answer #1 · answered by Misty 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good to see you posting questions! Treating others as you want to be treated means you treat them kindly no matter what they do. You treat them in the way you would want them to treat you, not in the same way they do treat you. Thus, if someone is rude or unkind, you should not be rude or unkind back.
This is not always easy to do. It's a true test to be kind to someone when they are calling you names and yelling at you. But as Christians, that's how we're supposed to react.
2007-09-18 18:14:21 · answer #2 · answered by Michael B - Prop. 8 Repealed! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would like to beleive that I do not take offense but I would not be truthful to you let alone myself. It is a practice to be nice to unkind people. I do though point out to a person when they are being unkind and have a faith where the claim to have been perfected by just believing and accepting. I claim spiritual progress and not spiritual perfection but I am still in a progress. I receantly was riding my motor cycle through my "hood" and had one of the drug dealers throw a brick at me. I emmediatly took offense and went home and got my truck did not call the cops (because they don't ever do anything any way) and tried to run the S.O.B. down. Let me tell you this guy will never try to do that again. Yes he may hate me for making it so hard for him to deal his drugs in my "hood" but I know that i was wrong for taking it to that extreme. Punishment is a tool for change and I know that this guy will not even try to walk my block any longer. So in saying I do what I can but I am still very falible.
2007-09-18 16:58:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I try to treat others in the way that I would want to be treated *if I were them and in their current situation*. I try to be empathetic & understand where the rude, angry person is coming from - what went wrong in their day/life to bring them to that point - and respond to them from a place of understanding. I don't always succeed, but that's what I try to do.
In the end, my behavior, my choices are all about who I want to be. I am responsible for my choices & actions. So, it doesn't really matter whether someone is rude to me or not - that still would not make me feel proud of myself for being rude back to them. That would leave me feeling bad about myself for being rude (no matter what my 'justification').
2007-09-18 11:35:34 · answer #4 · answered by Maureen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It simply means to do just what you are doing and simply treat them nicely, eventually alll the rudeness they put out will come back to them! If they treat you rude and you treat them rude back them someone will treat you rude for being rude, complicated I know, but makes sence! God Bless
2007-09-18 11:30:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you." Meaning treat someone with respect and you will get respect back from them. Just because someone treats you bad doesn't mean you treat them bad back. Your suppose to pray for your enemies and still love them even though they do you wrong. .
2007-09-18 11:31:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Golden Rule, Right On. A Biblical concept to be sure.
I Cr 13;8a
Hi SDC!
2007-09-18 11:35:03 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I treat people the way I want them to treat me, even if they're rude to me--I'm a firm believer in the saying, "What goes around, comes around." (& "the Lord don't like ugly")
2007-09-18 11:34:05 · answer #8 · answered by wanda3s48 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I follow the golden rule. I know the effects of karma long term.
If you treat people like they treat you, you are allowing them to control your behavior. It's much more evolved to control it yourself.
2007-09-18 11:28:45 · answer #9 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lev 19:18
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the Lord.
Pro 25:21
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink
2007-09-18 11:39:37 · answer #10 · answered by created2worship12 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋