Simple, pay attention to experience, both internal and external and transform it through a balance where opposites are synthesized.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 6:44 pmYou make it sound like the golden rule would bring lawlessness and chaos. Wow! So what would be a better rule to live by?Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 6:04 amI did not falsify the Golden rule, I am pointing out it's absurd nature.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Jul 31, 2025 4:44 am
I don't see how any of your statements necessarily falsify the Golden Rule as formulated by Confucius. I'm not sure what you mean by "good" creates "evil" and how that applies to Confucius' version of the Golden Rule.
Your seeing or not seeing things only points to the contradictory nature of establishing an ethical system as sight is subjective.
The Golden Rule is moral chaos. There is no law as to how or what a person should value within themselves or even themselves. The Golden rule is grounded in value. There are countless things to value and countless means to value them. What we see, and value, as "self" is purely a mental construct accorded by how we choose to ascribe meaning and identity. It just spontaneously appears, the identity, and the interpretation of it that gives it definition. If you don't believe that then observe the spontaneity of your internal and external experiences.
Technically everyone is following the golden rule as they treat others according to the paradigm they see as themselves. It is because of self value that others are not valued. To treat others according to how one values themselves thus justifies morality ambiguity if a person ceases to value themselves. Their is no law that says you have to value yourself...thus the Golden rule is subject to a foundation that is without law.
Good and evil are ascribed meanings so to have distinct values that are sensical. The sensicality of thing is driven by the desire to know and to know is to have power. Values are rooted in a desire for power as what is valued is but an interpretation of how reality should revolve around one of an innumberable number of phenomena. To say something is good and another evil is to place value on something so to direct intention and action in a way to make the valued thing exist or propagate in time and space. What is valued is viewed as good and what is evil is not valuable, and with value comes the direction of attention on it.
As to good and evil. Good is a distinction. If Good is indistinct then it ceases to be a distinction and with it ceases to exist for existence is distinction. What is not distinct does not exist. For Good to be distinct it must stand apart from what it is not. Evil is what it is not. Good must stand apart from evil in order to be distinct as Good and yet in the necessity of it standing apart, so as to have distinction, evil occurs. The distinction of Good necessitates evil.
Live a simple life of balance.