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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Father Terrence who wrote (29543)	1/31/1999 9:58:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 108807

It may have been worthless for the ancients to OOOOH AAAAH at lightening, if indeed they did ooh aah. Mostly I think they soiled their pants (loin cloths?)- until they devised a system of thought that could displace the fear enough for them to continue to function. That is the same purpose magical systems of belief serve in children. In situations of severe stress one has a resource to fall back on- one can make the world a friendlier, or at the very least more understandable place, than it would be by using reason. Of course there have to be a few men and woman willing to face the world without relying on mysticism, or whatever, willing to advance knowledge- but not everyone is capable of discovering the science behind things. And some of those people, who turn away from reason, make other contributions- some of them write great novels, some of them become great humanitarians, so I would not say it inevitably makes someone evil or worthless to turn towards their irrational side. It totally depends on what they do with their life- but then I am a utilitarian, relativistic, humanist.

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