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Annna | 15:11 Thu 02nd Oct 2008 | Religion & Spirituality
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1. god at the centre of my life: OK not too difficult
2. no other gods: got it
3. do not misuse his name: hard to break a bad habit but doable.
4. keep the sabbath holy: Hmm, some of it
5. respect and honour my parents: not a problem.
6. Not kill or want to: ok with that
7. No adultary (ok) not even lust (tricky).
8. Not steal anything: Not even a pen! harder than you think
9. Never ever lie: Soooo difficult
10. Crave what is not yours..... ditto

What do others think, does anyone manage to live like this? What are todays 10 or can they never change?
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Buddhists have only 5 commandments (or precepts, as they are called):

Don't kill
Don't screw around
Don't steal
Don't tell lies
Don't abuse alcohol or drugs

Much simpler, though even these are not always easy to obey.
it's not never lie so much as don't slander people, which is reasonably doable.

Incidentally, I learnt no other gods as the first commandment, not making idols as the second. 'I am the lord' was just preamble. This is the usual Protestant reading, I think.
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Wizard - come on, don't do this to us. Tell us where to check it out! This sounds amazing!
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Wiz, are you talking about Deuteronomy?
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Hello Wizard. I see what you mean. Very confusing. The Ex34 Commandments seem very Jewish and explain a lot of their rituals.

Are the 10 we are taught as relevant today as they were before? Do we need to update them, after all a lot of what was written, has been updated (reinterpreted) to be more pertinent to todays society? These really do seem too rigid, hard and undoable.... are we doomed to fail?

Thanks for that Wiz. I was thinking Deuteronomy, but in retrospect, the bit I was thinking of is more about punishment than law.

Annna, some of the Ten Commandments are relevant to civilised society not only today, but in any age - but by no means all.
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Deuteronomy 5 basically repeats the Ten Commandments, 6 explains them a bit more, but I was originally thinking of 21/22. And then there are all the curses in 27.

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