The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55674   Message #867654
Posted By: Mudlark
15-Jan-03 - 02:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Every Wonder?
Subject: RE: BS: Every Wonder?
Daylia...that's an interesting set of words but I find it difficult to believe some of them. From everything cultural anthropolical I've ever read the concept of "us" (and "them"), "we" (and you...other) is universal. Without "doubt" it seems survival of the fitest would degenerate into survival of the dumb lucky. If the word "promise" didn't exist, what meaning would treaties, and the breaking of them, have? Without the concept of "how"...how is one to question the world. Surely the Sioux had a few questions in their heads. (lol..besides, I thot "how" was the universal Indian greeting.) On the other hand, tho I'd hate to live in a society that couldn't conceive of mercy or forgiveness, I'd love to try one that had no shoulds or guilt.