My Ten Commandmants
My Ten Commandments
Harvey H. Madison
1. Treat others as you would want them to treat you.
2. In all things, strive to do no harm.
3.Treat everyone and all the world with love, integrity and respect. Base your actions on consideration of the consequences.
4. Educate yourself. Be forever seeking knowledge and exploring new ideas.
5. Live a life of joy and wonder. You have the power and responsibility to assign meaning and purpose to life, and to define happiness for yourself.
6. Fight injustice. Do not ignore evil or deny engaging justice, but show compassion for acts which have been earnestly confessed and regretted.
7. Have integrity of mind. Impartially judge your own ideas against the facts, self consistency and reason, and be willing to let go of any beliefs that do not measure up.
8. Require that your trust be earned. Accept only that for which there is evidence and reason to believe. Reject the lure of faith in the unseen and the unjustified.
9. Do not allow yourself to be led blindly by charismatic or authoritarian others, or to be controlled by guilt.
10. Question everything.
Harvey Madison is is director of the Center for Critical Thinking in Lubbock, Texas. He is also an activist, an award-winning professional photographer, and a former Air Force intelligence analyst.