DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

The Ten Commandments are not LAWS (i.e. do this and you’ll be cool) but USE CASES (illustrations of ways to handle certain situations). They really ought to have a Preamble that says DON’T DO STUPID SHIT INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

1. I’m the guy who brought you out of Egypt. If it weren’t for me, you’d still be stacking bricks and eating cardboard. A little gratitude would seem in order.
2. Other gods didn’t do shit for you. You going to go with the losers or go with a winner? That’s a no-brainer.
3. Don’t be using me to bad-mouth other people. I’m more powerful than you and smarter than you. I have a short fuse and a loooooong memory. Pissing me off is a very poor career move.
4. I established the Sabbath for a reason — you need a break every so often. Remember, I’m smarter than you. Take the hint.
5. Maybe your parents are a pain in the ass, but they were here first and without them you wouldn’t be here at all. Again, a little gratitude would seem in order. Give them a break. Peace in the family is worth a little eye-rolling.
6. If people can’t go through their day without worrying about being killed, there won’t be a society. They have to be comfortable that they aren’t going to be whacked without a very good reason. This also is no-brainer.
7. Fooling around with other people’s spouses rarely ends well. ‘Feel good now and worry about tomorrow tomorrow’ is what children do. If others are having problems, it’s not your job to make ’em worse; if they’re not having problems, it’s not your job to start something. That’s what assholes do. Think it through and Just Don’t.
8. People also have to have a certain confidence that they don’t have to watch their stuff all the time. If you want to know why some countries are full of prosperous people and some countries are full of poor people, look at who spends their time stealing stuff. Again, this is a no-brainer. Think it through and Just Don’t.
9. When we are resolving disputes, we need to know what happened. When you lie about that, it screws up the system. If we can’t resolve disputes well, things go to Hell very quickly. Again, this is a no-brainer. Think it through and Just Don’t.
10. If you spend all of your time being grumpy about what other people have, you’ll never be happy, and it will be your Own Damned Fault. If you don’t like what you have, work and get more. It’s not that hard if you FOCUS. If you lust after what other people have all of the time, you wind up in number 7 and number 8 and that rarely ends well. Save us all some trouble and Just Don’t.

TL;DR. If you wouldn’t want other people to do something to you, don’t do it to other people. Doing shit to other people that pisses them off causes hate and discontent and makes everybody unhappy and it’s NOT NECESSARY. Nobody NEEDS to go through life pissing other people off.  Give us all a break and don’t be a jerk. If you forget everything else, remember that.

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