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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

620.0. "Can you figure this out?" by CUPMK::PRESCOTT () Tue Feb 07 1989 18:56

Here's a list that you have probably seen before.  See if you can figure
out what it is, and then let us know what you think of it. 

After someone figures it out, I will tell you where it came from (that 
would be too much of a hint at this point).

1.  We think first of what God wants when we make choices.

2.  We only use God's name with love and respect.

3.  We keep Sunday as God's special day of prayer and rest.

4.  We listen to and obey those who care for us.

5.  We care for all living things.

6.  We care for our bodies and respect others.

7.  We do not take anything that is not ours.

8.  We are truthful and fair.

9.  We are faithful to those we love.

10. We help people to have what they need to live.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
620.1	Sure	LESCOM::KALLIS	Anger's no replacement for reason.	`Tue Feb 07 1989 19:27`	12
	Obvious. <spoiler> A paraphrasing of The Ten Commandments. >After someone figures it out, I will tell you where it came from ... Do you mean Exodus 20:1-17? Or Deuteronomy 5:6-21? :-) Steve Kallis, Jr.
620.2		COOKIE::DEVINE	Bob Devine, CXN	`Tue Feb 07 1989 19:32`	13
	I supplied three hints that progessively become more specific. The last line is the answer. I don't want to spoil the AHA! reaction for others, so let me be oblique in my answer (follows the form-feeds). Take 2 tablets and call me in the morning... ;-) Does the number 10 bring forth any associations?... Think of Charleton Heston... Ten commandments.
620.3	God & 10 are a giveaway	KAOFS::S_BROOK	Here today and here again tomorrow	`Tue Feb 07 1989 19:58`	6
	Sorry - even without the spoilers it's all too obvious. The only way to begin to obscure this is to find some term sufficiently vague to replace "God". Stuart
620.4	Who did the paraphrase	LAMHRA::WHORLOW	Prussiking up the rope of life!	`Tue Feb 07 1989 21:38`	9
	G'day, Hey that's pretty neat. Not seen this version before. Where did this version come from? = book/translation/whatever rather than the origin... Derek
620.5	Well, it's not the King James	CUPMK::PRESCOTT		`Tue Feb 07 1989 22:38`	21
	>> >After someone figures it out, I will tell you where it came from >> ... >> >> Do you mean Exodus 20:1-17? Or Deuteronomy 5:6-21? :-) Oh is THAT what those things are all about... Well this version of the big ten were a homework assignment for my stepson who's in 2nd grade in Catholic school. He said he had to learn 'em, he showed me that list, and I gave him endless grief to the effect that he must have lost the "real" version. I don't want to open up any religious discussions here, but I'm appalled that an eight year old is being fed an extremely wimpy "We think first of what God wants when we make choices" in place of the thunderously resonant "I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no false gods before Me." Also, when I was a kid, I was pretty intrigued by the words I didn't know -- adultery, covet -- the mysteriousness was half the fun. I think I WILL take two tablets and call them in the morning...
620.6	Is this ambiguous enough?	CNTROL::HENRIKSON		`Wed Feb 08 1989 00:26`	7
	12-step groups* use the term 'higher power' as a substitute for 'God'. Pete * AA,Al-Anon,ACOA,CODA etc.