http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GoldenMean4856/The Golden Rule is an extreme expression of religious doctrine and liberal philosophy that has disarmed humanity for long enough. Open your eyes and see that it is only half of the principle of moral reciprocity. The other half of moral reciprocity has always been ignored, slandered, demonized, condemned by well-meaning extremists (both religious AND atheist)in the name of Peace and Love. Peace and Love are important, but WAKE UP, people, and see the other half of the Golden Rule!hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GoldenMean4856/264463A front-page story today from my local (liberal) newspaper has the headline: “Fly’s Sex Behavior Linked To Single Gene.” I was immediately suspicious. This sounded like a purely scientific report, but how soon do you think it was turned to philosophical/political purposes? It took six short...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GoldenMean4856/259869It’s not whether you win or lose, but where you place the blame. -- bumper sticker To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent. --Publius Syrus (85- 43 BC) You cannot help a man permanently by doing for him what he could and should do for himself. -- Abraham Lincoln In the last post, I...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GoldenMean4856/258595JUSTICE Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. -- George Savile, 1633-1695 The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. -- Luc de Vauvenargues, 1715-1747 Unfortunately, the good are often surprised that the wicked can be clever. --...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GoldenMean4856/255880Only in the mysterious equations of Love have I found any Logic or Reason. -- John Nash, PhD, subject of the movie A Beautiful Mind Whatever is done from love, always occurs beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil At the memorial service after the destruction of the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GoldenMean4856/252570KNOWLEDGE Knowledge is the food of the soul. -- Plato, Protagoras Knowledge itself is power. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1624) Knowledge is, in my opinion, the first "component" of goodness. It is so basic to human existence that it is the foundation of any and all qualities of thought, but it is...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GoldenMean4856/250683Fellow bloggers, please join me on this philosophical adventure and grace me with your thoughts, whether pro or con. This series will be a long one, I hope, if I can find the time to keep up the posts. So fellow wandering philosophers of Blogit, gather round the table and enjoy! "When the stomach...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GoldenMean4856/239310PART THREE OF THREE In the last post, I said: “Only by holding people completely responsible TODAY can we force them to recognize their choices and begin to make better ones TOMORROW.“ As a part of that goal, I mean that we must hold OURSELVES responsible as well as others. I do not mean self-...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GoldenMean4856/237373PART TWO OF THREE According to her friend Leonard Peikoff, a respected Objectivist in his own right, Ayn Rand had a very admirable vision of moral certainty. Not only did she maintain that the precision and certainty of scientific law can be applied to morality; she also clearly indicated in her...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GoldenMean4856/236224PART ONE OF THREE I walk the maze of moments, but everywhere I turn to, Begins a new beginning, and never finds a finish, I walk to the horizon, and there I find another, It all seems so surprising, and then I find that I know….. Still looking for the answer, I cannot find the finish, It’s either...