Precept of Zoroastrianism
Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.
Humata, hukhta, huvarshta — the oldest three-word ethics on record: every choice enlists you on one side of the war between truth and the lie.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Humata, hukhta, huvarshta — three words, memorized by every Zoroastrian child, and probably the most compact ethical system any religion has produced. Their force comes from the cosmology: because the war between truth and the lie is genuinely undecided in each moment, an ordinary good act is not merely virtuous but materially strengthens one side. The tradition rejects asceticism for the same reason — a healthy, prosperous, generous life is more useful to the good side than a self-denying one.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
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HaSatan — the prosecutor, not the enemy.
Judaism · figure
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The fall was an act of love in the wrong order.
The Unification Church (Family Federation) · story
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Whether the transition kills us first.
Transhumanism · core tenet
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The demons, who are not simple.
Hinduism · figure
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No one made this, and no one is running it.
Buddhism · core tenet
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The Tirthankaras cannot help you.
Jainism · core tenet
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