I'll answer such questions that are not obviously disingenuous or asking for a treatise.
Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:31 pm
RCSaunders wrote:
No one can do wrong and get away with it. ...
How so?
Would require a treatise so briefly, wrong means what is in defiance of the nature of reality and the requirements of one's own nature as a human being. Defying gravity, taking poison, refusing to use one's mind are all wrong and the consequences are reality's just reward.
Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:31 pm
It is wrong to seek to have or enjoy anything one has not earned or acquired by their own effort (productive work)
So no prezzies then?
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A present received from a loved one or in appreciation for something one values in you is earned. All other presents are insults.
Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:31 pm
It is wrong to fake reality in any way and the consequences of all lies and deceit are to one's own mind and consciousness. ...
What does 'faking reality' involve?
It means being dishonest in any way, with others or with oneself. It means pretending to be what one is not or pretending one does not know what is right and wrong, i.e. using the excuse of ignorance.
Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:31 pm
It is wrong not to learn all one can about as many things as one can.
Why?
For human beings, knowledge is a requirement of life, more important than food or drink. Without knowledge a human would not know what food or water are or how to acquire them. Everything a human being does must be chosen but one can only choose what one knows there is to choose and how to have or achieve what is chosen. To choose one must be able to think and judge which choices are the best or right ones. Knowledge is all there is to think about or to think with. The scope of an individual life is determined by the limits of one's knowledge, which limits what he can think, which limits what he can choose and do. To be all one can be, one must have all the knowledge one possibly can.
Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:31 pm
It is wrong not to think as well as one can about every belief and choice.
Got any techniques?
Would require a treatise, but briefly:
--Thinking is using language to ask and answer questions. One must know their own language and how to used correctly as well as possible.
--Thinking must be done intentionally and deliberately.
--Knowledge is necessary to correct thinking. What one can think and how much they can think about it is determined by how much they know and how well they know it.
--Knowledge must be true knowledge that correctly describes some aspect of reality.
--Beliefs that are not true and based only on authority, consensus, popularity, tradition, false arguments, or appeals to emotions, must be rejected.
--There are no contradictions in true knowledge or correct thinking. A contradiction means one's knowledge is wrong, thinking is incorrect, or both, and must be rejected or corrected.
--Feelings, desires, and senitments must never be allowed to influence one's thinking.
--One's language must be used correctly and one's word's unambiguously defined.
--One's premises must always be based on true knowledge derived from evidence of non-contradictory reasoning from that evidence.
--Never accept anything on the basis of authority and only accept what you, using your own thinking, understand to be true and does not contradict what you already know is true.
--Correct thinking has nothing to do with influencing others, (winning arguments), only with ensuring you know what is true in order to make right choices to live happily and successfully.
Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:31 pm
It is wrong to evade, in any way, one's responsibility for one's own life and actions.
Agree but got any leeway for the depressed?
No. "Depression," is usually nothing more than not feeling so hot and everyone has those experiences. It can never be an excuse for doing what is self-harmful or destructive, i.e. what is wrong, which can only make things worse. In most cases one's depression, like all other problems, are one's own fault. The solution is to fix whatever wrong thinking, choices, and behavior have produced those problems.
Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:31 pm
It is wrong to interfere, in any way, in another's life and choices.
Peadophiles, rapists, wife and childbeaters, etc, etc?
Unfortunately these kinds of cases are often ambiguous and too often used as an excuse by government agencies and other do-gooders to use force that ultimateley is more harmful than those harms they are supposed to correct. As a general principle it is wrong to interfere in another's life for any reason. It is never wrong, however, to prevent such interference, especially when someone is interfering, or threatening to interfere in one's own life or the lives of one's loved ones. That is not interference. It is not interference when one asks for it, and initiating interference is asking for it.
Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:31 pm
It is wrong to attempt to influence another in any way, from force to persuasion, for one's own gain at another's expense. (It is wrong to steal.)
Does that include helping others because one gains a sense of self satisfaction?
Yes, especially in that case, if it is at the other's expense. Too many people meddle in other's lives for the sake of their own sense of virtue which actually does those others harm. One thing I personally despise is unasked favors. If you really want to help someone, ask before doing anything as long as you can ask without being intrusive.
Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:31 pm
It is wrong not to achieve all one can and to be the best human being one can in all things
Agree, what happens if one thinks being a human being is to be top dog?
I'm not sure what being top dog means. If it means lording it over others, especially for one's own glory, it would violate the principles against interfering in others lives for one's own gain and faking reality. One's value as a human being is not determined by what others think of one, but what one really has made of themselves.
If it means being the best at something, so long as it only means the best one can be within the limits of one's own innate ability, that is exactly what one should strive to achieve. One's personal value is not comparative or determined by other's opinions, but on how well one lives their own life, no matter what anyone else thinks or does.
Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:31 pm
It is wrong to believe there are any shortcuts to knowledge, success, or achievement. There is no magic source of knowledge (like revelation), no secret method of success, (like prayer, or meditation, or incantations), and no way to achievement except hard work....
Money helps a shit load.
There is no forgiveness for any wrong and one of the worse evils is to believe one can be forgiven for doing wrong, or convincing others they can be forgiven ...
Surely that's up to the done wronged by to decide?
Unfortunately not. If one defies reality in any way, reality will not forgive them and the consequences cannot be evaded. Perhaps you are thinking if someone does some wrong that directly affects you, you may forgive them, rather than seeking revenge or retribution. If that is what you mean by forgive, one should always forgive. Nothing is gained by harming another in retribution for harm they have done or for any other reason. Two wrongs do not make a right. Nevertheless, the wrong doer cannot escape the penalty reality will inflict, no matter how many people, "forgive," him.
Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:31 pm
. Reality never forgives. The penalties for defying reality cannot be evaded.
Such as?
I really thought you would have answered that question for yourself. Some examples from the United States:
Approximately a quarter of all adults in the United States seek some kind of help for mental problems every year, and over their lifetime, half of all Americans will receive some kind of psychiatric treatment. Except for a very small percentage of those who actually have some physical neurological problem, such as dementia, Tourrets, epilepsy, or a brain tumor, the others just do not know how to think, choose, and live successfully, and approximately 70 thousand of them commit suicide every year. It is the penalty reality places on all those who refuse to learn how to think and choose correctly.
Approximately 55% of the people in the United States say they are unhappy with the work they do. Since one's work is the most important activity of one's life, what most people do to maintain their lives is not a source of happiness and success, but of drudgery and disappointment. Most of those fail in their jobs, or cannot find work at all, because they refuse to make the effort to learn all the can to be workers that actually have something to offer to employees.
Over 46 million Americans cannot feed themselves (are on food stamps). The government only considers 4.3 million of those on welfare, but not being able to provide your own food is not exactly successful living. It is one penalty reality places on all those who fail to be all they can be, who look for shortcuts and an easy life.
Perhaps that is why 2.5 million people (one in every 200) receive treatment for drug addiction each year. It does not matter what one's opinion is about the use of drugs, for those who seek treatment for it, it is obviously not an example of successful living.
While this statistic is skewed by the facts of outageous American laws, still, approximately 7,200,000 adults are in jail in the United States, or about three of every hundred adults, (the highest numbers for any country in the world). It does not matter why they are in jail, but it can obviously be evaded by making right choices, no matter how, "unfair," one thinks that requirement is.
Of course everything anyone suffers as the consequence of their ignorance, stupidity, bad choices and practices, their failure to produce (work) or effort to improve themselves, from poverty to disease to squalor are all reality's penalty's for defying it.