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Still Relevant

Posted: 09 Jun 2017, 15:23
by yogi
Thomas Paine wrote:These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Re: Still Relevant

Posted: 10 Jun 2017, 23:01
by pilvikki
could we not just skip all that together and live in harmony?

Re: Still Relevant

Posted: 10 Jun 2017, 23:20
by yogi
I don't know what it would take. I don't think it ever was the situation.

Re: Still Relevant

Posted: 15 Jun 2017, 19:47
by pilvikki
i sadly agree, but in the end it would be ever so easy with some attitude adjustments from when kids are still young. or am i just naive?

Re: Still Relevant

Posted: 15 Jun 2017, 21:21
by yogi
I think it boils down to instinct. As long as there is more than one person in the world, there will be competition. And, somebody will always escalate it.

Re: Still Relevant

Posted: 18 Jun 2017, 22:02
by pilvikki
then... how to cure 'bad' instincts?

Re: Still Relevant

Posted: 19 Jun 2017, 00:31
by yogi
Good question. To boil the complex answer down to something simple, there are no good or bad instincts. It all boils down to the primal instincts to survive.

Re: Still Relevant

Posted: 23 Jun 2017, 20:21
by pilvikki
true enough, but why then do have so many suicides and at other end people who prefer to do others in - without the slightest threat to themselves? :think:

Re: Still Relevant

Posted: 23 Jun 2017, 21:48
by yogi
The threat in those cases is internal. The only way to kill the demon within is to kill the host.