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(This post is a work in progress. Come back later when it's done.)

What is the first commandment?

Here, I'm actually baiting a misdirection, to either the first of the ten commandments ("You shall have no other gods before me"), or the most important commandment ("Love the Lord your God... "). But the actual "first commandment" I have in mind is the first one that God ever gave humanity, in Genesis 1. It goes as follows:

Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

Surely, this commandment must be important. In fact I think it's highly relevant for the ills that ails our society today. But why? How? Is it not enough to simply love God and love people? Aren't they first and second most important commandments?

Actually, I think the second commandment - to love your neighbor as yourself - is illustrative here,

for our current society, for the ills that ails us today.

many of the issues that our society is facing today.

Not absolute. People have done other things. But you need a special command to overwrite. If you don't know what to do, then do this. Default.

exceptions: singleness, "eunuchs", etc. All fine.

Failure to follow it is to be met with grace, forgiveness, tolerance, allowance, and acceptance, but not with praise, amplification, celebration, or propagation.

the first commandment that God gave humanity. Not the most important, but the most basic one that was worth mentioning.

How it relates to other commandments.

Marriage

best marriage. Polygamy, homosexuality, etc. not as good. Further deviation is worse.

Love God, love people. But what does that mean?

the problems plaguing our society

PvE, not PvP,

Otherwise, you will wither and die in obscurity. Mechanistically.

Your final score in life

basic algebra/calculous: how to optimize

Make it funny

• intro
• default
  • meaning of the command,
    • reasons
    • how it relates to other commands
  • marriage
  • mission in life
    • Current situation in society
    • applicable at the societal level - country, corporation, church
    • final score in life
  • optimization
• exceptions
  • As a single man
  • singleness - can be a gift
    • Paul, Jesus. Not for the faint of heart.
      • Some degree of death by martyrdom.
  • failure - grace and allowance
• resistance
  • deviations from Biblical marriage
    • some are better, some are worse, but all fall short.
  • Wither and die in obscurity.
• conclusion