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Do unto others
I'll never forget in the fourth grade the Coca-Cola Company came around and gave us a wooden 12 inch ruler that had the Golden Rule printed on it. I really believed in this philosophy of living because I wanted to be treated right and so I knew I had to treat others right, because as the old adage goes, "What goes around, comes around." Even as a child, I knew this rule was a deterrent for greed and I knew greed was like a cancer that slowly eats away at the moral fiber of a society. Then came the 1960s and a sinister attitude prevailed as old traditional faith based belief began to be questioned and mocked. The Golden Rule was now "He who has the gold rules," and "Do unto others before they do it unto you." The moral decline of this nation began. So, now there's a mentality out there that says, "They don't treat me right, so I won't treat them right." Well, the old proverb says, "Two wrongs don't make a right." How true! You see, they missed the point in the Golden Rule. It didn't say, "Do unto others as they do unto you," because sometimes folks don't do you right, but rather it said, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Get it. I don't want to treat others the way I'm treated, but rather I want to treat others the way I want to be treated like the golden Rule says. Now, there's an evil notion out there that says, "I'll do it, because everyone else is doing it. Everyone cheats, so I'll cheat. Everyone lies, so I'll lie. They robbed me so I'll rob someone else to even the score. I don't get angry, I just get even," and on and on they go.
Even one well known rich man said, "Greed is good!" The Bible says that in the last days all this would be. They would call good bad and bad good. This is the day. It's this simple, "If you do unto others as you would have others do unto you, then you simply can't go wrong."
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