Today, I had an aha moment. An epiphany. All at once, these Four Supreme Precepts, these Four Mighty Pillars of Civility and Wisdom came to me in a blinding vision:
Where did I find these? In the Lotus Sutra? The Tao Te Ching? The Analects of Confucius? The writings of Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, or any of that ever-expanding host of New (and Improved)-Age Sages? In the profoundest recesses my own marvelously sensitive, poetic ticker?
No -- in the ground rules for Wikipedia's discussion board.
May they be ground rules for this blog...particularly, the comments boxes.
You out there know who you are.
3 comments:
Wonderful set of guidelines for existence--too bad they don't work in a world with the potential to produce Hitlers!
Hey, Campbell, didn't the owner of this blog just tell you to stop making comments here?
Speaking out of both sides of one's mouth is one way to get heard.
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