Lately I’ve been thinking about what God would want from me, because I think the idea was a good influence on my life. Here’s a list in progress of some things I think whould characterize God’s wants and judgments:
1. God would want you to know the truth
2. If you find yourself flinching at knowledge of serious risk factors (e.g. of your character or moral plans), God would urgently want to speak with you about it
3. Resist the pull of natural wrongness
3.1. Consider all of the options which are such that you would have to be looking for the obvious/common sense options in order to find them
3.2. Consider many non-obvious options; consider that the right thing to do is a different concretization of an abstracted version of the wrong thing to do, is adjacent to the wrong or seemingly-right thing to do, queers the seemingly-right or wrong thing to do, or is a thing in a category which cuts sideways through categories of abstractly right or wrong things to do
3.3. Every night, go over a list in progress of cognitive biases and search your memories and feelings honestly as to whether you gave into any of them
4. By one third of the set of good definitions of ‘making progress’ that you can come up with, or by no more than six good definitions out of eighteen, make it 80% true about you that you are making progress; don’t be going nowhere
4.1. On an average rate of twice every five days, do a good day’s work
4.2. On an average rate of once every three weeks, spend a day working really hard
4.3. For every extra amount of work beyond the rates specified above, God will be extra proud of you, which can become a source of great esteem and comfort.
5. Reward yourself temperantly for making progress and resisting the pull of natural wrongness; your morality should be as an enlightened, wiser-than-you friend who you eagerly wish you were strong enough to follow; not a slaveholder making you regret your acquaintanceship.
6. In your life, always be faithful and reliable to at least one great moral principle; have one moral job or nature that God will consider you remarkable for
7. Recognize the vulnerability of others as unsettingly reminiscent of the vulnerability in yourself
Feel free to leave suggestions for more entries; aim for excellence, and if you feel honestly that your suggestion is excellent in spite of acknowledged strong possibilities that it may be subjective and biased, don’t hesitate to share. Or, hesitate the right amount before sharing; either is good.
Lately I’ve been thinking about what God would want from me, because I think the idea was a good influence on my life. Here’s a list in progress of some things I think whould characterize God’s wants and judgments:
1. God would want you to know the truth
2. If you find yourself flinching at knowledge of serious risk factors (e.g. of your character or moral plans), God would urgently want to speak with you about it
3. Resist the pull of natural wrongness
3.1. Consider all of the options which are such that you would have to be looking for the obvious/common sense options in order to find them
3.2. Consider many non-obvious options; consider that the right thing to do is a different concretization of an abstracted version of the wrong thing to do, is adjacent to the wrong or seemingly-right thing to do, queers the seemingly-right or wrong thing to do, or is a thing in a category which cuts sideways through categories of abstractly right or wrong things to do
3.3. Every night, go over a list in progress of cognitive biases and search your memories and feelings honestly as to whether you gave into any of them
4. By one third of the set of good definitions of ‘making progress’ that you can come up with, or by no more than six good definitions out of eighteen, make it 80% true about you that you are making progress; don’t be going nowhere
4.1. On an average rate of twice every five days, do a good day’s work
4.2. On an average rate of once every three weeks, spend a day working really hard
4.3. For every extra amount of work beyond the rates specified above, God will be extra proud of you, which can become a source of great esteem and comfort.
5. Reward yourself temperantly for making progress and resisting the pull of natural wrongness; your morality should be as an enlightened, wiser-than-you friend who you eagerly wish you were strong enough to follow; not a slaveholder making you regret your acquaintanceship.
6. In your life, always be faithful and reliable to at least one great moral principle; have one moral job or nature that God will consider you remarkable for
7. Recognize the vulnerability of others as unsettingly reminiscent of the vulnerability in yourself
Feel free to leave suggestions for more entries; aim for excellence, and if you feel honestly that your suggestion is excellent in spite of acknowledged strong possibilities that it may be subjective and biased, don’t hesitate to share. Or, hesitate the right amount before sharing; either is good.