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To: Rick Julian who wrote (78106)	4/14/2000 4:11:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Religions have codified different sets of moralities- but if you like to think for yourself then you think up your own. You can take ideas from major religions- but if you can't justify them to yourself with your own reason, I don't see what use they are. And if you are creative you can come up with your own- or at least ideas that appear to be your own- someone, somewhere, may also be thinking them or have thought them in the past- but if you aren't in touch with that person then the ideas are, for all purposes, original.

To: Rick Julian who wrote (78106)	4/14/2000 4:46:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Perhaps - but they did this MSFT style. The customer base wasn't consulted - it was informed.

To: Rick Julian who wrote (78106)	4/14/2000 5:16:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

You can thank the priests and shamans, I'll thank the lawyers and philosophers and grandmothers. Codification is something that requires writing, so it's relatively late in human history, and what's written down, to begin with, is oral history and tradition. "An eye for an eye" isn't religion, it's law. Same with "thou shalt not kill," and so on. "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" isn't religion, it's philosophy. In Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," Danny Glover says, "you know what the right thing to do is, it's what your grandmother taught you." Precisely so.