What is it that I believe?

The Universal Golden Rule

Brahmanism
This is the sum of duty: do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.
[Mahabharata 5,1517]

Buddhism
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
[Udana-Varga 5,18]

Christianity
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law of the prophets.
[Matthew 7:12]

Confucianism
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness:
Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.
[Analects 15,23]

Islam
No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.
[Sunnah]

Judaism
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.
[Talmud Shabbat 31a]

Taoism
Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.
[T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien]

Wicca
An' it harm none, do as ye will.
[Rede]
Any energy you send out will come back threefold.
[The Law of Three]

Zoroastrianism
That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself.
[Dadistan-i-dinik 94-5]

So what do you think?  Is this a universal spiritual truth of god, or is it common sense?

May we bloom
Each in our own way
Revealing the beauty within
May our ancient roots
Give us healing strength
Nurturing our best selves
May we celebrate diversity
Respect each person we meet
Understand that we are one family
May each of us always remember . . .
We are united in hope & divided in fear
Put away fear and celebrate our human family

Something has been bothering as of late, especially when I've been considering my spiritual path. Why is it that Jesus is referred to as God and as The Lord? I mean, they are two totally separate entities, why is it people classify them together? I'm really bothered by this. Jesus, as people say, was the son of god. Meaning he is not God. God = The Lord. So where does the cross come from? Also, isn't it a violation of one of God's laws to refer to Jesus in this way? To paraphrase something I remember reading in the bible, one isn't suppose to call/believe/symbolize/represent anyone or anything else in the same light as the actual God. Did I miss something?

"A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions."
~ Gordon R. Dickson

A fanatic does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

- Finley Dunne

Can't remember where i first read this quote..

The female sense of sharing originated as familial sharing-care of the young, the gathering and preparation of food, sharing of joys, love and sorrows. Funeral lamentation originated with women. Religion begun as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.
The Stolen Journals
-God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert

Anyone know what religion he followed? This quote has always stuck with me. I love those books....well most of them. Dune Messiah was my favorite.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see it's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
-Litany Against Fear from the Bene Gesserit Rite.
-Children of Dune
-Frank Herbert

All errors in gramer and spelling are mine ;)

"We not only could know everything, we do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."
- Destruction, relating a conversation with Death. Neil Gaiman's Sandman: Brief Lives Ch.8 pg.15

"Not knowing everything is all that makes it okay, sometimes."
- Delirium. Neil Gaiman's Sandman: Brief Lives Ch.8 pg.15

"Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while...But whether this is the case or no, it is still a worthy thing to open cages. It is still a virtuous act to free the imprisoned."
- Dream. Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Wake (Exiles) pg.141

"I mean, despair may be the thing that comes after hope, but there's still hope. Right?"
- Matthew. Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Wake Ch.3 pg.80

"Thermodynamic miracles...Events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter..."
"But...if me, my birth, if that's a thermodynamic miracle...I mean, you could say that about anybody in the World!"
"Yes. Anybody in the World.
...But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget..."
- Dr Manhattan and Sally Juspeczyk, in conversation on Mars. Alan Moore's Watchmen: Ch.9 Pgs.26-27

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