my essential messages, condensed

[David Dalton]

My messages on http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/messages.html
are a mess, I will have to condense them (perhaps by
just listing short forms on that page and having the
short forms linked to subpages with more discussion).

A condensation of what is there now would be:

I don't care what anyone believes as long as they are loving, or try to
be as much as possible within constraints of life.

The fundamental is love; however this can not be always achieved and so
one must at least strive for love. Messages that conflict with that
sentence must be discarded or edited to no longer conflict.

and (derived from the above):

1. strive towards perfect love
2. If you communicate with a someone you must know the definition of
that someone. A corollary is that, for non-atheists: if you follow a
deity name (e.g. God) do not use the name blindly but know what it
means.
3. there is no someone who is BOTH all-powerful AND perfectly good
4. there are many possible paths up a mountain
5. not taking up a path unless it truly resonates with you
6. individual responsibility to be a seed of good
7. believe anything that there is evidence for (but work to change it if
it is not loving) and don't believe something that there is evidence
against (but try to bring it into existence if it is loving) and feel
free to believe anything you like that is loving (not harmful) and that
has no evidence for or against it but don't shove such theories down
anyone else's throat but feel free to share the beauty of them.
8. we are part of nature (or the environment) and not above nature
9. some similarities between the lives (and in many cases message
overlap to some extent too) of some past major pagan and major non-pagan
figures (including Jesus) and me;
10. sex between incompatibles is an abomination, sex between compatibles
is not

I have more messages on http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/un.html
that are derived from the previous messages, but I won't
condense and list those here now.

Can you suggest any improvements in the above list?

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David Dalton dal...@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Travel & Music
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"Here I go again...back into the flame" (Sarah McLachlan)