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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (1617)	10/12/2000 10:18:39 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 28931

I thought that was SO interesting! I loved that part. how lovely to think that the desire to care for others has been in us for so long.

To: Rambi who wrote (1617)	10/12/2000 11:55:11 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 28931

If there is any attribute that is close to being "exclusively" human, it is culture. If the aging woman was privy to knowledge that the younger members of the tribe needed, then it would make sense to have her along. She's pulling her weight as it were. Language in the abstract sense allows time travel. You can "see" and "hear" things that existed long before you were ever conceived. That goes back to what I've said here: just because the mechanism is exposed, the magic of the process DOESN'T disappear. Your example is a wonderful example of this. The value of age, IMO, is the dimension of time which extends beyond my reach through other means.