Date/Time 29 Dec 2014 1:42:08pm

Albeit that you have completely departed from rational discourse into proselytising as may be your right I thought as this topic will essentially disappear tomorrow that I might end with an observation also.

You mentioned one of Jesus' statements which reminded me of something that I saw recently. Yours was not quite the "Do unto others" statement that I'm talking about here, but some such pronunciations of his are universally agreeable to many people even outside religion. However what I saw in a presentation of either Youtube or from Michael Shermer did indeed talk about that statement. What he showed was that it is in fact probably quite wrong; even though the intent of the statement is usually well enough understood and remains laudable in that interpretation.

The full quote was

The problem is that we have evolved and practised throughout our lives a range of social interactions that are all about being able to discern what the other person would like you to say or do as opposed as what you would like to do. The example is broadly put that while men may be open to being approached directly for sex most women would generally find it a real turn-off. "Will you have sex with me" isn't the greatest pick up line for a guy to use, even if he would indeed love it asked of him by a woman that he fancied.

If you were pedantic then you'd have to change the quote to something like "Treat others as well as you would like to be treated yourself."

Fascinating? Perhaps not very! But when extended to the quote that you used then you might get, "How you treat one another reflects your relationship with the divine."
Here I think the relative nature of the voracity of what it means to treat one another well breaks down into something that becomes quite ridiculous if the divine is introduced. Thinking back to the earlier example one might almost be inspired to pray for easier women. I think social behaviour is perfectly explicable by evolutionary moderation and indeed that it almost offends the sense of natural justice to try and interject a divine element.

After the first few lines of your poem I confess to interjecting "I am Spartacus." But it did remind me of at least one other piece of similar prose....


Which is just the opening line of "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles. If it seems to be uncannily similar then maybe Lewis Carroll holds the key to transcending more than just that looking glass of his, but I doubt it.

Please don't mind my sense of humour I was just adding in a few jokes for Dan!