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I have spoken in generalities about [[ethical]] conduct and that is the nature of the [[discussion]] tonight. I am not offering you a [[textbook]] of this instruction, though one must be [[prepared]] soon for advanced [[families]], with children who are [[enlightened]]. Social conduct that is productive has inherent in it an "ethical backbone" that gives it strength to [[endure]] many ups and downs of social [[change]]. When this is absent, your society, a society, will lose its form and will not be able to hold itself erect and move forward in time. It will become dis-eased, morally and ethically. It would be easy to point out many ethical breaches in your society today. Your society is particularly having trouble, difficulty, dealing with [[financial]] matters at this time. Whether it is corporate accounting, whether it is corporate profits, whether it is hiding expenses, whether it is spending too much money in the household, or in the nation, of having material goods to "look good" when these goods cannot be paid for.

I have spoken in generalities about [[ethical]] conduct and that is the nature of the [[discussion]] tonight. I am not offering you a [[textbook]] of this instruction, though one must be [[prepared]] soon for advanced [[families]], with children who are [[enlightened]]. Social conduct that is productive has inherent in it an "ethical backbone" that gives it strength to [[endure]] many ups and downs of social [[change]]. When this is absent, your society, a society, will lose its form and will not be able to hold itself erect and move forward in time. It will become dis-eased, morally and ethically. It would be easy to point out many ethical breaches in your society today. Your society is particularly having trouble, difficulty, dealing with [[financial]] matters at this time. Whether it is corporate accounting, whether it is corporate profits, whether it is hiding expenses, whether it is spending too much money in the household, or in the nation, of having material goods to "look good" when these goods cannot be paid for.

When one of the [[parents]] goes to work because they feel they have to live in a certain [[neighborhood]] and that their children go to certain [[schools]], where it might be most productive if the parent stayed [[home]] to [[raise the children]] and be there when they came home from school to help [[guide]] them during the waking hours and [[prepare]] them for the [[sleeping]] hours, reading them bedtime stories of ethical/moral natures. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop's_Fables Aesop’s Fables] certainly were good, very [[simple]]. They weren’t "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy Game Boy]," were they? No, they were very simple, and with these children today, it’s not enough just to read the [[story]] and say good night, but to have a time of [[inquiry]] of [[examination]] of those simple stories. What is the [[moral]] of the story? Can you remember or see in your mind the pictures of some of those characters in those stories, such as, "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_and_the_Fox The Crow and the Fox]," and many more?

When one of the [[parents]] goes to work because they feel they have to live in a certain [[neighborhood]] and that their children go to certain [[schools]], where it might be most productive if the parent stayed [[home]] to [[raise the children]] and be there when they came home from school to help [[guide]] them during the waking hours and [[prepare]] them for the [[sleeping]] hours, reading them bedtime stories of ethical/moral natures. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop's_Fables Aesop’s Fables] certainly were good, very [[simple]]. They weren’t "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy Game Boy]," were they? No, they were very simple, and with these children today, it’s not enough just to read the [[story]] and say good night, but to have a time of [[inquiry]] of [[examination]] of those simple stories. What is the [[moral]] of the story? Can you remember or see in your mind the pictures of some of those characters in those stories, such as, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_and_the_Fox The Crow and the Fox]," and many more?

A society’s ability to [[endure]] to move forward as a whole is only as capable as its [[individuals]] are morally and ethically able to [[sustain]] that. There is a time to teach children to be rugged and [[individual]], but there is a time to teach children to be nurturing and caring and [[cooperative]] and supporting of their fellows, of each other. Not everyone is strong and capable of being alone and [[surviving]] and doing well. Being strong does not mean making others look small, for the truly strong are those who are like your Creator, Michael, when he came here as [[Jesus]]. You know that he was a strong individual and he was able to say, "No, not this way; there is another way." Strength does not [[emanate]] from the [[ability]] to be calloused, cold, but to be true to [[character]], to be [[ethical]], [[moral]], to exude an inner strength of rightness. Rightness that endures, not rightness by [[position]], religious position or political position, but from the interest of others, for the strong need others to lead, and those who are less strong, need [[leaders]] who are strong, to lead them well. What are the [[ethics]] of successful [[leadership]]? How does one sustain successful leadership? How does one sustain successful parenting? How is one to be an ethical parent?

A society’s ability to [[endure]] to move forward as a whole is only as capable as its [[individuals]] are morally and ethically able to [[sustain]] that. There is a time to teach children to be rugged and [[individual]], but there is a time to teach children to be nurturing and caring and [[cooperative]] and supporting of their fellows, of each other. Not everyone is strong and capable of being alone and [[surviving]] and doing well. Being strong does not mean making others look small, for the truly strong are those who are like your Creator, Michael, when he came here as [[Jesus]]. You know that he was a strong individual and he was able to say, "No, not this way; there is another way." Strength does not [[emanate]] from the [[ability]] to be calloused, cold, but to be true to [[character]], to be [[ethical]], [[moral]], to exude an inner strength of rightness. Rightness that endures, not rightness by [[position]], religious position or political position, but from the interest of others, for the strong need others to lead, and those who are less strong, need [[leaders]] who are strong, to lead them well. What are the [[ethics]] of successful [[leadership]]? How does one sustain successful leadership? How does one sustain successful parenting? How is one to be an ethical parent?

And it is not only deciding for yourself what is right, it is not only deciding what is right for your child, but it is also teaching your child to know and to behave and to think in right terms. It is one thing to be "[[righteous]];" it is quite another to be "[[self-righteous]]." Right living is always successful. It does not jeopardize the individual or others, but upholds [[self]] and upholds the self of others. If I were to give an assignment for the [[Teaching Mission]], to those who publish and those who write, it would be to collect an operational manual for [[parenting]] at the ethical level of instruction and [[indoctrination]] for children. And it begins—yes, yes, you know where it begins—it begins at the time, at the moment of [[conception]], and proceeds through the era of gestation, to [[birth]], to infancy, to [[childhood]] and [[Youth|young adulthood]]. The basic foundation of the individual [[consciousness]] is [[trust]]; you must feel safe, first, in order to trust; and you must be able to trust first, before you can love. We offer no reward for this compendium of instruction, other than the shear knowledge and awareness that it is needed, it is timely, and that it has a very good [[intention]] and [[purpose]]. It need not be longer than a hundred pages. You have read the book by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fulghum Robert Fulghum], ''Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten''? It’s a wonderful book! It has some of those thoughts in it that are very [[practical]] and useful.

And it is not only deciding for yourself what is right, it is not only deciding what is right for your child, but it is also teaching your child to know and to behave and to think in right terms. It is one thing to be "[[righteous]];" it is quite another to be "[[self-righteous]]." Right living is always successful. It does not jeopardize the individual or others, but upholds [[self]] and upholds the self of others. If I were to give an assignment for the [[Teaching Mission]], to those who publish and those who write, it would be to collect an operational manual for [[parenting]] at the ethical level of instruction and [[indoctrination]] for children. And it begins—yes, yes, you know where it begins—it begins at the time, at the moment of [[conception]], and proceeds through the era of gestation, to [[birth]], to infancy, to [[childhood]] and [[Youth|young adulthood]]. The basic foundation of the individual [[consciousness]] is [[trust]]; you must feel safe, first, in order to trust; and you must be able to trust first, before you can love. We offer no reward for this compendium of instruction, other than the shear knowledge and awareness that it is needed, it is timely, and that it has a very good [[intention]] and [[purpose]]. It need not be longer than a hundred pages. You have read the book by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fulghum Robert Fulghum], ''Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten''? It’s a wonderful book! It has some of those thoughts in it that are very [[practical]] and useful.

As you associate with your [[friends]] who are adults, who are [[responsible]] for their own lives, do not be too [[reluctant]] to withhold your comments or [[inquiry]] to them about their unethical [[behavior]], or an unethical position they may take on an issue. You need not come from a position of "[[righteousness]]" and say they are wrong and they are "less than," but ask them how they came to that position, what is their interest in that. Who provides the ethical oversight to adults? Well surely, [[innocent]] children provide the best ethical oversight to any adult, for they are naturally innocent, naturally [[accepting]] and loving, yet they are without [[authority]] and they are without voice and they are without social position to criticize or question adults. So it must be other adults who ask these questions. There are [[tactful]] ways of doing this without being critical, without being [[self-aggrandizing]], without becoming a [[fundamentalist]], without being domineering, but simply offering another [[perspective]] to that individual. And it may be a body of individuals; it may be that you are on a school board or a community committee. Surely in this era when there are so many homeowner’s associations in communities and [[neighborhoods]], that there is a place for speaking wisely. And do not [[expect]] that your words will always be accepted eagerly; and do not [[anticipate]] that your [[wisdom]] may be endorsed publicly.

As you associate with your [[friends]] who are adults, who are [[responsible]] for their own lives, do not be too [[reluctant]] to withhold your comments or [[inquiry]] to them about their unethical [[behavior]], or an unethical position they may take on an issue. You need not come from a position of "[[righteousness]]" and say they are wrong and they are "less than," but ask them how they came to that position, what is their interest in that. Who provides the ethical oversight to adults? Well surely, [[innocent]] children provide the best ethical oversight to any adult, for they are naturally innocent, naturally [[accepting]] and loving, yet they are without [[authority]] and they are without voice and they are without social position to criticize or question adults. So it must be other adults who ask these questions. There are [[tactful]] ways of doing this without being critical, without being [[self-aggrandizing]], without becoming a [[fundamentalist]], without being domineering, but simply offering another [[perspective]] to that individual. And it may be a body of individuals; it may be that you are on a school board or a community committee. Surely in this era when there are so many homeowner’s associations in communities and [[neighborhoods]], that there is a place for speaking wisely. And do not [[expect]] that your words will always be accepted eagerly; and do not [[anticipate]] that your [[wisdom]] may be endorsed publicly.

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