(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 is an important commandment. And I think it may be particularly important for 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
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