To love your neighbour like yourself, meaning

[Gaetan]

To Love your neighbour like yourself means to treat your neighbour like yourself, it is to have the same attitude towards your neighbour than your own person.

All sound in mind persons loves himself, for him, he doesn't do anything wrong, he won't condemn himself, won't punish himself, all is good in what he is does because he loves himself, even renagades love themself. To be just, you should adopt the same attitude towards others than you have towards your own person. To Love your neighbour like yourself is the fundamental basic of justice.

 

[HansMustermann]

Oooh, so it doesn't mean I should give the neighbour a handjob too? Damn, he tricked me

 

[Manopolus]

To Love your neighbour like yourself means to treat your neighbour like yourself, it is to have the same attitude towards your neighbour than your own person.

All sound in mind persons loves himself, for him, he doesn't do anything wrong, he won't condemn himself, won't punish himself, all is good in what he is does because he loves himself, even renagades love themself. To be just, you should adopt the same attitude towards others than you have towards your own person. To Love your neighbour like yourself is the fundamental basic of justice.

It is not enough to love thy neighbor -- you must also love your enemy (see: Sermon on the Mount). So... basically that would mean not sending your enemy to hell for eternity for not falling for the whole shebang, wouldn't it? Apparently, God isn't internally consistent. Either that or He's highly immoral.

It appears to me to be like someone that moralizes a lot, but doesn't follow his own preaching. Christians are actually pretty good at emulating that, so I don't get the inferiority complex... if that is the way of their God, then they are quite Godly in their own inconsistencies.

 

[TerribleTrivium]

Yeah but it only works in small communities. How about "tolerate your neighbor like your family?"

 

[Trebuchet]

Oooh, so it doesn't mean I should give the neighbour a handjob too? Damn, he tricked me

Who are you and why are you reading my mind?

 

[Gaetan]

It is not enough to love thy neighbor -- you must also love your enemy (see: Sermon on the Mount). So... basically that would mean not sending your enemy to hell for eternity for not falling for the whole shebang, wouldn't it? Apparently, God isn't internally consistent. Either that or He's highly immoral.

It appears to me to be like someone that moralizes a lot, but doesn't follow his own preaching. Christians are actually pretty good at emulating that, so I don't get the inferiority complex... if that is the way of their God, then they are quite Godly in their own inconsistencies.

God loves his neighbour like himself, you got to do the same, you won't be judge Under a different rule than yours. If you want to be judge Under the same rule than God, the rule of mercy, you got to act like God, use the same rule than him, and love your neighbour like yourself. There can't be a rule for others and a different rule for you, it has to be the same rule.

 

[Slowvehicle]

God loves his neighbour like himself, you got to do the same, you won't be judge Under a different rule than yours.

I, personally, never ever not even once pondered sending someone to eternal torment because they did not love me enough to let me "save" them from what I would do to them if they did not let me "save" them...

Your 'god' is a lying monster, who does not even pretend to follow its own rules.

If you want to be judge Under the same rule than God, the rule of mercy, you got to act like God, use the same rule than him, and love your neighbour like yourself. There can't be a rule for others and a different rule for you, it has to be the same rule.

See above.

I, for one, never instructed my minions to kill every living thing in an enemy settlement (except, of course, the sex-toy-worthy virgin girls). Your 'god'-monster does not even pretend that its own rules apply to it.

 

[Craig B]

God loves his neighbour like himself, you got to do the same, you won't be judge Under a different rule than yours. If you want to be judge Under the same rule than God, the rule of mercy, you got to act like God, use the same rule than him, and love your neighbour like yourself. There can't be a rule for others and a different rule for you, it has to be the same rule.

God has no neighbour. He is unique, and transcendentally, infinitely greater than all other things. How can he have a neighbour? Who is like God?

These are monotheist dogmas. You're writing nonsense.

 

[TerribleTrivium]

The original post did not mention God or Christianity at all, and yet was immediately met with God and Christianity related mockery. Is this necessary? I think that "Love your neighbor as yourself" can be understood without a context of organized religion, and that the idea can have value. Or does the the non-sciency-ness set it up for ridicule?

 

[The Man]

To Love your neighbour like yourself means to treat your neighbour like yourself, it is to have the same attitude towards your neighbour than your own person.

All sound in mind persons loves himself, for him, he doesn't do anything wrong, he won't condemn himself, won't punish himself, all is good in what he is does because he loves himself, even renagades love themself. To be just, you should adopt the same attitude towards others than you have towards your own person. To Love your neighbour like yourself is the fundamental basic of justice.

Only a narcissist "loves himself" in the way you remark above. Any 'sound minded person' would actively try to identify what they do wrong. So they can correct those deficiencies, avoid those circumstances or be prepared to face the consistences that result.

 

[TerribleTrivium]

The Man--I couldn't follow Gaetan's second paragraph very well. I wish it were written in better English.

 

[Gaetan]

The original post did not mention God or Christianity at all, and yet was immediately met with God and Christianity related mockery. Is this necessary? I think that "Love your neighbor as yourself" can be understood without a context of organized religion, and that the idea can have value. Or does the the non-sciency-ness set it up for ridicule?

Someone brought the subject of God and judgment, you won't be judge Under a different rule than yours, it has to be your own rule, there can't be two justices, one easy for you, and one hard for others, there can't be two justice, two rules or many rules, that what Jesus taught and that's what is just. If all people would be judge Under God rule, mercy, everybody would go to heaven, even worst criminals, but it wouldn't be just. The rule and measure you use towards others will be use for you, not God rule, not devil rule, not any other guy rule, but your own rule, that what is just.

 

[The Man]

The Man--I couldn't follow Gaetan's second paragraph very well. I wish it were written in better English.

Well, it doesn't really parse well for me either. Though having spent some time here and having read some of Gaeten's other posts/threads as well as others here where English wasn't their first (perhaps not even third) language. I've kind of learned how to hone in on some of the salient points that are being presented.

 

[Giordano]

The original post did not mention God or Christianity at all, and yet was immediately met with God and Christianity related mockery. Is this necessary? I think that "Love your neighbor as yourself" can be understood without a context of organized religion, and that the idea can have value. Or does the the non-sciency-ness set it up for ridicule?

Based (very correctly considering subsequent posts here) on Gaetan's history on this Forum. Also- does the term "love your neighbor like yourself" remind you of any well-known religious book that is essential in Christianity?

 

[MG1962]

Based (very correctly considering subsequent posts here) on Gaetan's history on this Forum. Also- does the term "love your neighbor like yourself" remind you of any well-known religious book that is essential in Christianity?

Yeah about that - The concept is almost as old as civilization. You would be hard pressed to find a major religion that does not have some variation of this saying as part of it dogma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule

 

[Craig4]

To Love your neighbour like yourself means to treat your neighbour like yourself, it is to have the same attitude towards your neighbour than your own person.

All sound in mind persons loves himself, for him, he doesn't do anything wrong, he won't condemn himself, won't punish himself, all is good in what he is does because he loves himself, even renagades love themself. To be just, you should adopt the same attitude towards others than you have towards your own person. To Love your neighbour like yourself is the fundamental basic of justice.

The display in the sex shop next to the car rental counter at the Stuttgart airport makes me think that this is a bad idea. If anyone tries to love me the way they seem to love people in that display, I'm calling the police.

 

[Craig4]

The monster you talk about are videos you play every day, that's what teach you and some other idiot medias. I guess you have a trouble mind listening and learning from these stupidities.

But gods don't exist and a Jesus died because he was a stupid little prison date.

 

[fuelair]

It is not enough to love thy neighbor -- you must also love your enemy (see: Sermon on the Mount). So... basically that would mean not sending your enemy to hell for eternity for not falling for the whole shebang, wouldn't it? Apparently, God isn't internally consistent. Either that or He's highly immoral.

It appears to me to be like someone that moralizes a lot, but doesn't follow his own preaching. Christians are actually pretty good at emulating that, so I don't get the inferiority complex... if that is the way of their God, then they are quite Godly in their own inconsistencies.

Welllll Duhhhhhhh!!!

 

[Manopolus]

God loves his neighbour like himself, you got to do the same, you won't be judge Under a different rule than yours. If you want to be judge Under the same rule than God, the rule of mercy, you got to act like God, use the same rule than him, and love your neighbour like yourself. There can't be a rule for others and a different rule for you, it has to be the same rule.

Yeah... not sure what that has to do with my post.

 

[Slowvehicle]

The original post did not mention God or Christianity at all, and yet was immediately met with God and Christianity related mockery. Is this necessary? I think that "Love your neighbor as yourself" can be understood without a context of organized religion, and that the idea can have value. Or does the the non-sciency-ness set it up for ridicule?

Someone brought the subject of God and judgment, you won't be judge Under a different rule than yours, it has to be your own rule, there can't be two justices, one easy for you, and one hard for others, there can't be two justice, two rules or many rules, that what Jesus taught and that's what is just. If all people would be judge Under God rule, mercy, everybody would go to heaven, even worst criminals, but it wouldn't be just. The rule and measure you use towards others will be use for you, not God rule, not devil rule, not any other guy rule, but your own rule, that what is just.

QED