What 'Golden Rule' do you live by?

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I can handle stupidity (under sufferance), I can tolerate justifiable rudeness, and I can accept ignorance...
I will NOT put up with WILLFUL ignorance.. do not burying your head in the sand and ignore facts/truths so you can stick by your own opinion

and Karma is your friend

I dont treat people as I would like to be treated.. I treat people as they deserve to be treated. A subtle difference, but I think it's important.
 
So many good ones...


Mine is "Follow your gut." As a woman who has always tried to be *nice*, many of my regrets in life are about those times when I didn't call someone on their crap.
 
I personally like "there are no bad days, only bad attitudes" and I always told my sons the the secret to life is to "master the obvious".
 
I have a problem with vulgarity... My pig brother in law is beyond crude and it makes me uncomfortable.


Ummmm.. The Golden Rule .... Do unto others...
 
"Judge Not,,,,,,,,,, Lest Ye Be Judged!"
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'Be prepared.' (I think Grandma told me that before I ever knew Boy Scouts existed.)

'Have contingency plans for your contingency plans.' ( my brother told me that, even though he does not live by it...I think he wanted me to do the work for him.) I am not sure this didn't turn me into an obsessive compulsive, though. I live by it, but I am not sure anyone else should. It makes you twitchy.

And one a friend told me, that I wrote down and taped to my wall is: 'If you can't be a good example, you can be a horrible warning.'

The one Grandpa always said that I live by is: 'Be good for goodness's sake.'
(not for any reward, payment, praise, or even recognition.)
 
Don't just exist in this world, but live.

A.K.A. Get off our rears, away from the tv/computers and go get the adrenaline flowing at least once a week!
 
If we have worthy aspirations for how we treat each other, it always bears noting that we fall short of those aspirations from time to time and act like three dogs with one bone. The secondary goal is to decrease those moments of failure.


Many models of "Golden Rules" are benign or reactive in nature; I like and am coming to appreciate the necessity of words like Paul's,

1 Thessalonians 5:11 says this:

So then, encourage one another and build each other up, as you are doing.
 
I TRY to live by all of them....and in my trying I also try to remember two things I know that are true: There is a God and I am not Him.
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I always tell my kids to go out of your way to be kind and always try to do the right thing, according to God's idea of what is right, not ours.
 

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