This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.

I'm your host, Kyle Thompson, let's get into it.

Rules?

More rules?

Really?

Isn't life complicated enough, restricting enough, without abstract rules that don't take

our unique individual situations into account?

And given that our brains are plastic and all develop differently based on our life experiences,

why even expect that the rules might be helpful to us all?

People don't clamor for rules, even in the Bible.

As when Moses comes down the mountain after a long absence bearing the tablets inscribed

with tin commandments and finds the children of Israel in revelry, they'd been pharaoh slaves

and subject to his tyrannical regulations for 400 years and after that Moses subjected

them to the harsh desert wilderness for another 40 years to purify them of their slavishness.

Now, free at last, they are unbridled and have lost all control as they dance wildly around

an idol, a golden calf displaying all manner of corporal corruption.

I've got some good news and I've got some bad news, the law giver yells to them, which

do you want first?

The good news, the hedonist reply, I got him from 15 commandments down to 10, hallelujah

cries the unruly crowd and the bad, adultery is still in.

The rules there will be, but please not too many.

We are ambivalent about rules, even we know that they are good for us.

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