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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (7144)4/5/2002 3:56:36 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
Lots of ideas in Western Civilization never would have been, but for the East. Gun powder, a defining feature of Western Civilization, came from the East. Some sources even suggest Jesus got his ideas from the East. I don't see the need to say where things came from though- except out of curiosity and the fun of tracing connections- a la James Burke. I think we can say our society has a lot of good ideas, lets find out what those are, and keep them- regardless of where they came from. Other societies have good ideas too- lets steal those. And all societies (ours included) carry around some bad baggage- let's dump that off.
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