Can one sentence sum up your personal philosophy?
One I like is: LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY!
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dancingtongue · 80-89, M
Confucious pretty much did it centuries ago: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Smidke · 26-30, F
@dancingtongue I thought that was coined by Jesus of Nazareth...?
LeopoldBloom · M
@Smidke Jesus stole it from Hillel, “What is hateful to you, do not do to others.”
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
@Smidke @LeopoldBloom Technically correct, that the precise wording I used was how Jesus phrased it. But the actual philosophical statement in various iterations goes back centuries before him through the Old Testament, Zoroastro, even to Socrates. While there are differences of opinion regarding Confucious, he is often credited with the statement 'What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.''
LeopoldBloom · M
@dancingtongue Hillel wouldn't have known about Confucius, but Jesus would have known about Hillel. He flipped it from Hillel's negative injunction to a positive one.
The negative one is straightforward. I don't want people to punch me, so I won't punch them. The positive one is more ambiguous. I want every beautiful woman I see to have sex with me, so "do unto others" means I should have sex with them.
The negative one is straightforward. I don't want people to punch me, so I won't punch them. The positive one is more ambiguous. I want every beautiful woman I see to have sex with me, so "do unto others" means I should have sex with them.