If I were to make a list like Ben Franklin to obtain Moral Perfection, I would use a lot of his key virtues. I personally live by the Ten Commandments. I believe that those are the most important virtues to live by because they make the most sense. If I had to make a list it would go something like this:
ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.' – or I only pray, respect and believe in one God
TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.' –or God cannot be described as a person or anything else, nobody knows what he looks like and that is the way it is suppose to be
THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'-or do not use Gods name in an un holy way
FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.' –rest on Sundays and go to church
FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.' –just what it says, don’t treat my parents wrongly and respect them
SIX: 'You shall not murder.'-do not take another life
SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.' –Do not have sex before marriage
EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.' –do not take what is not yours
NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'-do not lie and say you saw something you didn’t
TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'-do not want what you don’t have or don’t become jealous
These are the Ten Commandments, or the main virtues that I live by, but if I were in Franklin’s situation I would use these and then add more like:
ELEVEN: Think of others before yourself
TWELVE: Live everyday like it were your last
THIRTEEN: Never dwell on the past; always look on to the future
I think that if I had to do what Franklin did, with these virtues I would succeed with great success.
Monday, December 1, 2008
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