With ALL of the issues surrounding nearly every concieveable issue it would seem that humanity needs LESS emotion and MORE logic. Honesty, does blowing up a bus of school children make one's religious cause more viable?!? Hell, even christian folks take great offense at the thought that Wiccan light defensive spells and Christian spells are remarkably similar.... With multiple gods there were less issues, with ONE god there has been nothing but chaos since. Find what works best for yourself and move on. Why is that so hard for 99% of the folks around the world? If you truly belive what you believe then you are okay yourself but let othes be. It is not your place to change everyone else. To quote JK Rowling....f'cking muggles!!!

Hate mail too...Botor

With less emotion and more logic, wouldn't you just end up with the Soviet Union all over again? (All emotion had to be pickled in Vodka of course).

. . . that Botor was saying, "NO emotion, ALL logic," just a better balance.

The kind of balance that worked beautifully for several thousand years. Such a balance enabled the West (meaning men, with the invaluable help of women) to build this comfortable civilization that now allows us the luxury of criticizing it, and the leisure time to do said criticizing.

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('03 Buick Park Avenue, charcoal/cream)
Formerly:
'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino

Why do you single out "Western culture needs more logic, less emotion". What Christian spells are you comparing to witchcraft and or pagen rituals? I think what would work best for most people is to stop worshipping myths and legends and start living in the Real World of human cultural diversity. Religion is purely emotional, with little or no basis in facts.

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I elsewhere alluded to individual and mass coping mechanisms that perhaps help one accept or rather forget the blatant truth of humanity.

I have vintage sportscars,old firearms,books,'78's and other choice goodies to assist in the escape from existence.

Sex,drugs and alcohol also have their place.

And when senescence creakily rears it's inevitable bald,palsied, liver-spotted pate is when the drugs and alcohol will really serve their purpose.

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So it follows that the truth of humanity makes it is logical to seek emotional satiation when rational impasses born of emotional indecision create no easy alternative. Yes, that is logical.

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'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"

Upon an individual level,yes. Unfortunately if there is an easy alternative{on an individual,rather than communal level}I have yet to discover it.In life few things purely emotional are ever achieved with ease.

Great grad school rhetoric,though.

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That has been my experience as well. And when they are achieved, the nature of emotions tends to make effect of achievement a fleeting if not fickle.

Mr. Google suggests that humanity on the individual level commonly includes elements of biological, social and spiritual needs. Perhaps major impediments occur as we step beyond the biological and enter the arena of social and spiritual elements?

Thank you sir. Back at’cha.

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"

I will quote you in all le threads.

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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Of the three, only one is subjected to a modifier and that is happiness.

Here's Albert Schweitzer on happiness:
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Credit this post with my new sig line...

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1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831799&postcount=13
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831807&postcount=14

I believe it was George Burns who said, "Happiness is a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman. Or, a bad woman, depending upon how much happiness you can stand."