{"id":532,"date":"2009-10-02T12:29:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T12:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2009-10-02T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T12:29:12","slug":"karen-armstrong-lets-revive-the-golden-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/karen-armstrong-lets-revive-the-golden-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Armstrong: Let&#8217;s revive the golden rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/KarenArmstrong_2009G-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/KarenArmstrong-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=647&#038;introDuration=16500&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=2000&#038;adKeys=talk=karen_armstrong_let_s_revive_the_golden_rule;year=2009;theme=media_that_matters;theme=is_there_a_god;theme=speaking_at_tedglobal2009;theme=ted_prize_winners;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TEDGlobal+2009;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" pluginspace=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgColor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/KarenArmstrong_2009G-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/KarenArmstrong-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=647&#038;introDuration=16500&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=2000&#038;adKeys=talk=karen_armstrong_let_s_revive_the_golden_rule;year=2009;theme=media_that_matters;theme=is_there_a_god;theme=speaking_at_tedglobal2009;theme=ted_prize_winners;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TEDGlobal+2009;\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBeing told I have to stay at home and rest is always difficult for me, I get bored very easily, so I thought I&#8217;d lye in bed and catch up with some feeds &#8211; when I came across the above talk. I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/a-charter-for-compassion\/\">Karen Armstrong and the Golden Rule before<\/a>, it was heartwarming to listen to her talk, she has so much passion and faith and hope for a better world, which I find inspiring. I know some people will argue about the practicalities of the <a href=\"http:\/\/charterforcompassion.org\/\">Charter for Compassion<\/a> which Karen is talking about. For me though, as a sentiment, as an ideal, or even as a hope I think its a beautifully simple and wonderful idea.\n<\/p>\n<p>But it requires a change in each of us, which makes me wonder whether I&#8217;m strong enough to make that change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being told I have to stay at home and rest is always difficult for me, I get bored very easily, so I thought I&#8217;d lye in bed and catch up with some feeds &#8211; when I came across the above &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/karen-armstrong-lets-revive-the-golden-rule\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382,384,318],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal","tag-religion","tag-ted-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}