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   1 Nick said:
   

   I break the rules that I don’t agree with Which is the direct opposite of how I was raised and that was to follow the ‘rules’ strictly, no questions asked. (So if you break the rules, does that essentially mean you make the rules too? At least the rules you want to follow?)

   I can already tell with my 6 year old that he is going to be a Type-A stick to the rules kind of guy.

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   2 April said:
   

   Well, we all know what type I fall under…. (the same type as Chloe)

   It’s weird in Thailand though- everyone lives under the idea that rules aren’t to be taken seriously… maybe just if you’re going to get caught. So what if they’ve just issued an ordinance against J-walking- we’ll still do it! I’ll only follow the speed limit if there’s a policeman nearby. No cheating? Whatever. No one polices it and it’s the best way to pass. It shocks me (again, what type am I?) how ingrained this type of mindset is in Bangkok. You seriously see it in EVERYONE. It’s normal! Makes me let up quite a bit. Much different than the “rule-following” societies of Japan and Korea…

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   3 matt bortmess said:
   

   I’m a Rule-Follower married to a Rule-Breaker. Makes for intense discussions sometimes!

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   4 Mark Gillim said:
   

   break em… kings or pawns

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   5 Brook Sarver said:
   

   Rule-breaker… Line-pusher… Grey-area dweller…

   Can be quite interesting being a missionary with this mindset!

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   6 Becky said:
   

   Definitely a rule follower… it’s ingrained in me!

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   7 Danny Bixby said:
   

   I’m a rule questioner.

   Every rule exists for a reason. It was implemented for a purpose by someone who thought it was a good thing to do at one point.

   Some rules need to be abolished, others need to be upheld…because they are stopping worse consequences from taking place.

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   8 Paul Steinbrueck said:
   

   This is something Chris Brogan and Julien Smith wrote about in chapter 2 of Trust Agents, which we’re discussing over at Christian Web Trends. (Here’s Mary Beth Stockdale’s post on it – http://retwt.me/1e5eA)

   What Brogan and Smith say (and I agree with) is that in every situation you have to learn the rules first, both the written & unwritten rules. Then you figure out which rules can be changed or ignored.

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   9 Jennifer said:
   

   I don’t like to be told what to do or how to do it… yep. they were made to be broken! Well, the ones I don’t like anyway.

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    10 alece said:
    

    i’m a rule keeper at heart. but been intentionally breaking some lately to teach myself to lighten up.

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    11 Lynse Leanne said:
    

    I am a rule keeper. If i know the rule i will try and follow it to a “t”…i have to let myself know that it would be ok to break or bend them.

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    12 Amy said:
    

    for most of my life i was rule keeper. the older i get though i’m becoming more of a rule breaker.

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    13 Becky said:
    

    I’m totally a rule-follower too. Must be a Becky thing.

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    14 Dexter said:
    

    I could say that i am a rule follower

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    15 themisfit said:
    

    I’m a rule breaker.

    My motto, “it’s easier to ask forgiveness then permission!”

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    16 Dave Wilson said:
    

    Unfortunately, I think I’m a rule-breaker when it comes to other people’s rules, but I want others to be rule-keepers when it comes to mine.

    Guess that makes me a hypocrite right? Ouch.

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    17 Barbara Quinn said:
    

    I really enjoyed your Interesting comments. I also respect everyone’s honesty. It’s so refreshing to read non BS commentary from really honest people. I remember a really stupid rule my late father had. “You can’t do two things at once” ie if you’re working at something, you can’t ‘do anything else at the same time’ as if to ‘have any fun while working was a big no no. Ridiculous? You bet!
    Now when dad went on his fairly frequent business trips, and we knew we would be ’stupid rules free’ for a week of absolute freedom, we couldn’t ‘wait’ to see him off out the back door saying goodbye to him, wishing him well on his business trip. We were ’so glad’ to be looking forward to a glorious week of freedom from his ’stupid rules’, that we would promise him just about anything just to get him out the door a little quicker.

    As a child I really did try to learn to respect my dad as that was a basic part of my Anglican Catechism. But on the inside I would frequently be seething with resentment and anger ‘at him’ because he was so mean to my mother and brothers. By the way, I have forgiven him. So at the back door, he would be reminding us of our last instructions, “be sure to help your mother’. Yes dad we will.” ( we often didn’t, because we were very normal lazy children who chose to play rather than help. But mom was so glad to be free from her difficult spouse, that she didn’t care if we didn’t help her. She just wanted peace.) “Byyyyyye!dad.” And off he would go.

    We grew up on an island, and during the smelting season, when you could still eat Lake Ontario fish without poisoning yourself, the good old fifties, after a good catch of smelts, mom and I would set up the card table in the living room, in front of the TV,WITH THE TV ON!!!! and with basins of water, knives, and laid out newspaper, we would clean the fish and watch TV at the same time, and have such a wonderful time, knowing we could work and play at the same time, when dad wasn’t there to say ‘you can’t do two things at once!”( HE must have been away!) Mom and I had such fun cleaning the smelts which of course needed to be cleaned, wrapped up and frozen right away, to be put in the freezer to preserve them for many delicious future meals.

    As an adult, and a Grammy, I love to look at a book, write things down in a journal and watch tv at the same time, sometimes, just for the fun of it. because it’s so much fun breaking stupid rules when you realize that God never made them in the first place.

    I think the best rule to live by is to be kind and good to other people, practice the Golden rule, and learn how to love. That way, we can be happy and fulfilled, as long of course as we do not make the mistake of trying to change other people with the way ‘we’ want them to be,as if we thought ‘we’ were somehow ’superior to them’. So demanding something from others ‘isn’t being good ,kind, or loving. Some people simply ‘don’t’ want to be kind ,good or loving, or, if they try to be early in the friendship, for some reason they ‘change their minds.’ Do they also ‘change their rules? I don’t know.

    But until we realize that such relationships can be never be anything more than one way,with people who ‘don’t’ want to be good kind, and loving, we can never be happy or fulfilled in them. So for those who are the meanies, stinkers, and selfish, or who turn out to be that way, who take, use, exploit our patience and kindness, and who always ‘want’ something’ from us, but who don’t seem to really ‘give’ us anything that really contribute to the friendship, to the relationship,other than a ‘what’s in it for me’ kind of thing’ , people who make their own rules, break them whenever they want to, who have a different, peculiar set of standards and values, possibly even a wrong set of values,people who are’nt about to change their selfish ways, apart from personal crisis and intervention from a higher power, if we want to keep our sanity, we need to say I love you, I forgive you, but I really can’t hang out with you anymore, so it’s ADIOS AMIGOS baby!

    Free, happy, and loving it. BQ.