>>Steve,
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>>Ok, so he's a conservative. Still doesn't make his decisions good nor does that invalidate (or validate for that matter) conservatism itself. I mean, there have to be a few good liberals out there who use their brains rather than their emotional glands, right? So I guess there could be a few conservatives who don't use their brains.
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>Doug;
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>You are slipping - are you feeling yourself? I tend to think humans are much more complex than giving them labels such as conservative or liberal. I find that people have given me both labels – as my views differ depending upon the issue.
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>It is much too easy to put people into a box and dismiss them, as we do not wish to take the time to understand the person from whom a comment comes. When it comes to human values being a conservative or liberal is not an appropriate way to give such a classification. Such a topic to me is like a three-dimensional spider web – too complex to fully understand by a cursory glance.
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>Today, I think many people do not know what a value system is and that to me is a serious problem. It seems the pressures of life demand we not think and it is better to react. I was never a good little sheep!
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>Tom

You said it brothah! I just wanna live my life such that, no matter what is said about me at my funeral -- it is probably true. :-)

Seriously good points though. The cry for myth can be especially desperate from those with trauma and misfortune in their lives. They are vulnerable and addictive to simplistic ideologies -- particulary those that are dualistic and apocalyptic. No living cosmology there -- "ideas" are more important than those that have to live them. Instead of a fun home in an erotic universe, you get a mausoleum with everything just "right". Kinda bring shame on their loved ones, living or not.