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To: jbe who wrote (30236)	6/28/1999 1:28:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) of 71178

Oh- lots of fun things to think about in your posts--! Although it's now noon and I'm still in my nightgown...oh dear-- well- just one thing then- People today are no worse than they ever were; they may even be better. SOmeone (I'm sorry I can never remember where I read a lot of things) said that our grasp of the past is blurred by romance, that in the religious works we are confronted with saints and conversions, purity and single-mindedness, while we ourselves are conflicted and impure. When actually, the past is recorded not so much as what people WERE, as what they dreamed of being, that we confuse vision for history. So I think you are right that people are no better and no worse. But I do think there is a lack of structure today and that societies need some sort of cohesiveness that we seem to have lost, which used to be provided by Chrisitanity for many. I'm not sure a new mythology would necessarily have to be an official "religion"? Couldn't it be a collection of beliefs that somehow bring together the various cultures with universalities of a different sort. Eek. I'm confusing myself. Will have to read what myths are again. We need a more cosmic set of stories that can include many more people, while still incorporating the basic archetypes? Is that possible? I can't feel intelligent in a nightgown and with my stomach growling.

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