re: #256 allegro

Interesting. I can distill my ethical code down to the teachings of my parents:

Dad: do right
Mom: you create your own heaven or hell here on earth

Those two rules have covered about everything in my 61 years.

You got 99.99% of what Jesus taught right there. Or as Hillel put:

Once there was a gentile who came before Shammai, and said to him: “Convert me on the condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot. Shammai pushed him aside with the measuring stick he was holding. The same fellow came before Hillel, and Hillel converted him, saying: That which is despicable to you, do not do to your fellow, this is the whole Torah, and the rest is commentary, go and learn it.”