[~ot] why is programming so fun?

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boyd wrote:
>>
>> Side A: I belive X
>> Side B: I belive not X
>> Side A: please prove X
>> Side B: I can't, but prove not X
>> Side A: I can't
>>

Well said.

> 
> As for me, I've never really believed in god. But I've always kept in 
> mind that my belief might not be the truth, so I do sometimes wonder 
> what would a god want me to do. Can I trust what's in the Bible, the 
> Torah, the Koran, etc... when each is claimed to be the word of god? In 
> the end it seems all these books are mostly about moral values; being a 
> good person. So, that's what I try to do.
> 

To do that you do not need any of these religious frameworks, only the 
Golden Rule. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic_of_reciprocity for 
much more info.

The Golden rule has probably been hardwired into us by evolution. It is 
much like the "tit for tat" strategy (see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat) and would have been selected 
by eons of trial runs.

Dennis Cote