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

To: Solon who wrote (27481)	10/6/2009 5:12:29 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Respond to of 28931

I was referring to qualitative differences. There is something to be said for simplifying. Bigger and more comfortable is also connected to diabetes, heart disease, greater fear of loss, greed, corruption, etc. Ironically people with less_ are more likely to share and support one another than people with much. The hearth of a home no longer applies in family life. In the past camp fires, Hobo jungles, hippie gatherings, wagon trains, carravans, struggling through hardships of all kinds invited commaraderie. What has been happening with this evolution? "According to a study documented in the June 2006 issue of the journal American Sociological Review, Americans are thought to be suffering a loss in the quality and quantity of close friendships since at least 1985. The study states 25% of Americans have no close confidants, and the average total number of confidants per citizen has dropped from four to two. According to the study: Americans' dependence on family as a safety net went up from 57% to 80% Americans' dependence on a partner or spouse went up from 5% to 9% Research has found a link between fewer friendships (especially in quality) and psychological and physiological regression In recent times, it is postulated modern American friendships have lost the force and importance they had in antiquity. C. S. Lewis for example, in his The Four Loves, writes: “ To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it. We admit of course that besides a wife and family a man needs a few 'friends'. But the very tone of the admission, and the sort of acquaintanceships which those who make it would describe as 'friendships', show clearly that what they are talking about has very little to do with that Philía which Aristotle classified among the virtues or that Amicitia on which Cicero wrote a book. ” en.wikipedia.org We've evolved you say? Well ok. In spite of all that, the best of human character can often be discovered in the worst of times, just as tranquility is the only answer to a raging mob. So there is hope, even now.

To: Solon who wrote (27481)	10/6/2009 5:20:28 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 28931

<We have certainly evolved because that is the one fundamental certainty in the universe.....CHANGE.> Dont' tell Greg or e... he thinks the only thing in the universe that DOESN'T change is some specifically defined (by him) version of certain biological process' which by definition cant so as to be consistent with a game of "telephone" story started by no one knows who, translated no one knows how many times, by no one knows who, no one knows how many years before one of his "personal gods" (Jesus Christ) even existed. DAK