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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (135089)	7/27/2013 2:28:04 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Existential life styles are happening everywhere. Even if people do not know what an existential life style is. The 60's was the line of demarcation. People are increasingly living without myth and script. Before the 60's everyone on earth, for all of history, lived according to a religion and a culture which they were not allowed to deviate from. Myth and script. In the 60's the kids said: "wait", I have the right to manifest my own destiny and NO ONE has the right to tell me how to live my life. Seems like a little thing now, but it was an historical event. I recognized at the time this would present a problem. As long as people knew how to live a decent life they did not need primitive myths or cultures, but those who did not, could grow up without any socially necessary norms and mores e.g. uneducated kids in the ghettos. Almost all of my family and friends live pretty much 100% existential lives, but they are all educated and are very good citizens. Better than most as they live according to modern realities like the need to recycle, and educate their kids, and other behaviors like health. So the good citizens are better than ever, but many kids are lost and adopting modern day tribal cultures like gang cultures. Education is the best way to solve those problems, but sometimes churches and other cultures can help. But serious thinking is the only way people can live without a culture to guide them. But if one does live according to a strict culture like Mormons do, thinking is not so necessary. They just follow the yellow brick road. Everything is spelled out for them. << Where what happens? << By existential world I mean a world without prescribed rules laid down by church and culture, so people must think for themselves. That requires and educated mind. If people just follow their religion and culture, say like Mormons, they do not need much thinking. Name me one place please where this happens.>> Where people don't follow the rules dictated to them by their culture. Where what happens? << By existential world I mean a world without prescribed rules laid down by church and culture, so people must think for themselves. That requires and educated mind. If people just follow their religion and culture, say like Mormons, they do not need much thinking. Name me one place please where this happens.>> Where people don't follow the rules dictated to them by their culture.