Once Upon A Blog

My assignment was to write a reflective blog entry but actually there is only one specific thing on my mind right now. The 10 commandments, those 10 phrases that could define a religion, a life style, maybe even justify an uncalled for action. In my complete lack of imagination I offer to you my opinion of some of the 10 commandments.

Ladies and gentlemen, the 10 commandments:

ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.' Ok this one I can stand, but isn't tolerance and acceptance of differences an important part of life. The idea after the creation of the world, make it all together as one. With guidelines and prohibitions as inflexible and strict at these the riots due to difference could increase, and probably have.

TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'


THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.' This one is completely logical. But going back to the stupid belief of writing God as G-d, it refers to different times, and to me it is more of a blasphemy to write it with the line as to write it normal. It is a proper name, an important proper name and to write it wrong would be a complete insult. If I am aggravated by the misspelling of my simple name, God is to be spelled correctly at all times. Don't get God pissed.

FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.' Keep the Sabbath, I can live with this one. I actually keep it most Fridays. Obviously I don't exaggerate the idea of going to the synagogue at all times, and not touching any electricity nor money, or staying at my house completely bored. It is nice to keep traditions.

FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.' It is already a moral code to treat everyone nicely. We all love our parents.

SIX: 'You shall not murder.' One word: Duh. I have always wondered, is suicide murder?

SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.' Ew.

EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.' We all steal at one point of our lives, even though it is not right we all do it. It is a fault/mistake for some of us. For others it is a sport, a way of life. Anyways it is always wrong.

NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'

TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.' To want something is bad in some religions, to desire and feel greed and envy is seen as a sin as bad as murder. The less you desire, the happier you are. But my way of seeing it is that without any desire of some sort, and that envy we feel, most of all wouldn't go for something we think we want. Holding back takes nothing, but it is the malicious and "illegal" side of a desire that gives you the push to go for it. That selfish desire to have it for yourself, "you deserve this".Finito (: