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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (36603)	3/3/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: one_less	of 67261

<<Unless of course people think that I (an occassional church-goer) am somehow more deserving of heaven-or a pleasant afterlife than a Tibetan monk.>> It really doesn't matter what people think you deserve as an afterlife. Historical literature pretty much proves that we are often way off base when we try apply current cultural determiners. I've always loved that passage in Huckleberry Finn where Huck decides he has to forgo his ticket to heaven to help steal the widder Jenkins property (his buddy, Jim). His buddy's want of freedom and pursuit of happiness over powered Huck's desire to do the "right" thing. The thing is the ten commandments don't seem oppressive to me in the path I've chosen for life. Generally I have always figured that they were common sense directions to help eliminate unneccessary complications in life. TAO (An Asian philosophy) for example is a philosophy governed by the need to constantly simplify your life. So I don't see them being so contradictory to non-Jewish populations. Except wherein people choose to worship the creations instead of the creator. <<..in fact it is clear that the 10 commandments only pertain to one tiny society alive at the time they were written (the asian cultures were much more populus).... which leads you to believe they are a creation of man. >> I am not led to believe that, even though I am not an Israeli or a Christian. I am led to believe that Moses was a messenger of God and that the message is a guiding light, not an oppressive curse. I, however, agree with your remark about the problem of selecting specific scriptures, many of which can't be authenticated, as the Word of God, and directing the masses to your bidding. We have some pretty famous cases in modern times of people getting rich and getting caught in their own corruption.

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