Standard of Kindness

[michael edward badolato jr]

Standard of Kindness

I think it is important to be honest and care about consequences. Nutrition, environment, health, and disease has required a study of credible information. Proper interpretation of primary research material and secondary reviews without conflict of interest requires honesty, therefore it seems necessary to go back, not to controversial religious dogma, but to the basics of God and morality.

Referring to God is intended non denominational.
Evolutionary theory proven inadequate, scientists having determined that chance mutations can't account for the miracle of creation, instead the term intelligent design has been used; all things are created and further become; miraculously, intelligently determined, on the smallest scale; and at the level of people, places, and things; miraculous coincidence of events or messages; a mysterious spirit, energy, or other form; emerging, integrating, inherent, everywhere present; as if from another dimension, universe, or unimaginable place; all knowledge, wisdom, control, and power, yet precise to the detail and thoughts of each person.
I know it sounds like a fish story, but amid the seeming chaos, including the show of evil behavior in so many forms, there is a path defined by its evil opposite. The guiding light is making good moral decisions.

Love your neighbor and commandments as moral guidelines, basis for the present day code of law, spread widely 2000 years ago from the Roman Empire to the Far East, with the most popular religions of the World preaching love your neighbor. When you realize accountability to God for how you treat people, it is a great motivating factor. Our conscious decisions exercise only limited control of what happens; the basis for the decisions and consequences is a complex orchestration of life experience determined by God pulling the strings. If and when you see it, or maybe you already have, it's like whoa, wow!

The presence of suffering, evil, and death is difficult to reconcile; however, given the miracle of creation, becoming, and morality; it is good faith to follow the path of love; and not far out to believe God loves you and heavenly life may exist. Given all the evil in the world there often may seem serious cause for doubt, but I know in my life there is a pattern where miraculously determined circumstances have been in punishment for mistakes I have made.

Today the profit motive often conflicts with love of neighbor.
Morality has been so poor that health cost in the US has risen to a boggling $12,000.00 person/year.

It comes back to basic morality again; what is most important is kindness that is extended among people. I always appreciate constructive criticism, because it gives the opportunity to improve. This isn't about one way religion or dogma, but I believe kindness is most important.

10 Alternatives: A Modern Day Update

1) Love everyone, respect everything - sum total of religion

2) read, study, learn, work

3) think, communicate, hug, but no more than 3 children

4) walk, take a run if you want to, eat healthy, brush and floss daily

5) play a simple non violent game or activity

6) care about others, a better World, future generations

7) care about consequences - the present environment and behavior supports climate change and chronic degenerative disease - atherosclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, hypothyroid, kidney dysfunction, nervous system damage, oxidative stress, and cancer.

8) keep household furnishings modest, personal care without unnecessary products and ingredients, low maintenance landscaping and composting

9) clean power, zero emission vehicles, walk more - drive less; recycle everything; no deaths and injuries in transportation, instead bumper vehicles and much lower speeds; phase out of combustion fuels, over 1 million have died in US motor vehicle accidents during the last 30 years and 20 million temporarily or permanently disabled; 30-350 billion dollars per year increased morbidity and mortality due to vehicle exhaust.

10) better health equals lower health care costs: 20% of the American economy, a boggling $12,000.00 person/year, including 10% (1,200.00) in pharmaceutical drugs