{"id":4436,"date":"2013-08-04T03:04:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T03:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2013-12-02T18:58:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T18:58:30","slug":"arthur-jackson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/arthur-jackson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 10 Commandments or the 11 Ways of Wisdom: Take your pick<\/b><\/h3>\n

Arthur Jackson<\/b><\/h4>\n

August 4, 2013<\/h4>\n
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Arthur Jackson, author of \u201cHow to Live the Good Life: A User\u2019s Guide for Modern Humans,\u201d and \u201cThe Humanist Chapter of the Future and the Future of Humanism,\u201d has been a long-time participant in all levels of Humanism \u2013 local, national, and international. He will provide our Sunday Forum, \u201cThe 10 Commandments or the 11 Ways of Wisdom: Take your pick.<\/p>\n

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ELEVEN WAYS OF WISDOM<\/strong> – Arthur Jackson
\n1. Recognize that Human Beings Are the Ultimate Reference System.
\n2. Endeavor to maintain and develop the human species. Support efforts to develop Enlightened Communities. (Communities promoting authentic happiness for all its citizens.)
\n3. Seek to understand. Pursue Wisdom.
\n4. Recognize that all knowledge rests on faith\/beliefs and must always be open to questioning.
\n5. Strive to make the best choices possible.
\n6. Know and struggle to improve yourself; work to be physically and psychologically healthy.
\n7. Develop and adopt a perceptual framework in which pain does not prevent the achievement of authentic happiness.
\n8. Help and be helped by other people.
\n9. Work to increase knowledge and all creative and artistic endeavors. Adopt an inspiring life goal.
\n10. Support efforts to ensure that every child is provided a loving, nurturing environment and all the things necessary to achieve authentic happiness.
\n11. Work to achieve authentic happiness. Make of your life a spiritual quest.**<\/p>\n

**Spiritual Quest (The quest for wisdom): For Science of Ethics this involves accepting oneself as a natural being evolved in a natural world with the power of symbolic language which provides the ability to look beyond our current knowledge and experience and draw inspiration from that vision. This is a naturalistic definition of the spiritual, and the transcendent, but identifies with the eternal, with the ultimate, with the infinite, with truth\/Truth.<\/p>\n

ELEVEN WAYS OF WISDOM <\/strong>– Roy Speckhardt, Executive Director of AHA:
\n1.\u00a0Recognize the Human Standard.
\n2.\u00a0Improve society.
\n3.\u00a0Pursue Wisdom.
\n4.\u00a0Question and confirm knowledge.
\n5.\u00a0Make choices deliberately.
\n6.\u00a0Improve yourself.
\n7.\u00a0Overcome suffering.
\n8.\u00a0Facilitate people helping people.
\n9.\u00a0Set aside space for creativity to thrive.
\n10.\u00a0Ensure every child has a chance.
\n11.\u00a0Pursue authentic happiness.<\/p>\n

Arthur writes that this program is meant to examine the Ten Commandments in a way most Humanists and other freethinker rarely do, and present a science-based alternative for providing moral guidance in today\u2019s world.\u00a0 You can view the uncensored Ten Commandments here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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