The New Ten!

Here are the original 10, FYI:

You shall have no other gods before me
You shall not worship false idols
You shall not take the lord's name in vein
You shall remember the sabbath day and keep it holy
You shall honor your father and mother
You shall not murder
You shall not commit adultery
You shall not steal
You shall not give false testimony
You shall not covet your neighbor's things

...And here are mine:

You shall not murder
You shall not commit adultery
You shall not abuse alcohol or other substances
You shall not steal
You shall not bear false witness
You shall not scapegoat or blame others
You shall not enslave
You shall not rape
You shall not abandon, abuse or neglect thy child
You shall honor they environment

Go to town!

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[leighalison1983]

Thou shall not commit atrocities against your fellow human beings in the name of a non-existent being.

[CONKER17]

Add this to the one about abusing kids....say the same thing about pets/animals as well :<

[ianmathwiz7]

(cont)

6. Thou shalt be always ready to learn something new, and to discard even a cheished belief if it does not conform to the facts.

7. Thou shalt not censor.

8. Thou shalt rebel against any who seek to impose on thy will.

9. Thou shalt not scapegoat or otherwise deflect punishment, but still be ready to forgive wrongdoings honestly regretted.

10. Thou shalt be courageous, but not rash.

[ianmathwiz7]

I just made a similar video, in which I used the following set:

1. Thou shalt not rape, murder, or otherwise cause suffering unless necessary to prevent a greater amount of suffering.

2. Thou shalt question every authority or idea that cometh thy way.

3. Thou shalt not discriminate on any basis but the merit required for the situation.

4. Thou shalt enjoy thy sex life, so long as nobody else is harmed.

5. Thou shalt not impose on the will of others.

[Bitsofchips]

#9 all the way.

[PeterK1984]

I personally think that Dawkin's commandments are the best list around but they have the weakness of forcing people to think about them. His 4th has 21 words. You can't do that to people who are used to watching reality TV.

Yours have the advantage of being short, to the point and simple.

[phildawe1]

Check out Richard Dawkins ten commandments! I find them absolutely true!!

[itsjustameme]

There's no commandment that says "thou shall not lie". Instead it deals with bearing false witness. When it was written a "trial" was when someone came to the town centre and accused a person for doing so and so. Then the angry mob would stone the guy to death. So bearing false witness was a pretty evil thing to do.

And about your ten. What's wrong with adultery? Surely it depends on what kind of relationship you have? Do not betray the trust of your loved ones would be a better commandment.

[skywize]

@ContentByMe Harm None works for most cases, it refers to living beings rather than objects such as a liver, and should be vague. When it is too specific people feel as though anything not on the list is off for a reason. As for whips and chains... It's only harmful if you ignore the safe word. My safeword has always been 'more!!'

[ContentByMe]

@skywize I would consider "Do no harm" to be too vague personally, plus I wouldn't be able to get drunk and harm my liver which is a total buzzkill, I wouldn't be able to have extremely kinky and violent sex with a sadist either. Not that I would fancy that... What?