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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  To focus on our similarities is to avoid the empowerment of the individual. To focus on our differences is to forget what brotherhood means. So again, certainly, there is a binding similarity that draws us together--we could call it life, we could call it molecular bonds, we could call it string resonance--but the differences are also appreciable. |
I see the spectrum as more of a triangle -- in one corner is dependency (similarity-focus, no individual empowered,) in the other corner independence (difference without fraternity) and in the other corner is interdependence (our individuality contributes something unique and necessary to the whole.)
Just some random thing I've been percolating: I think it can be hard or easy to believe that life just ends, but just plain impossible to
know... because once you're in a situation where you can know that life ends, you can't know 'cause you're dead. If you know that life doesn't end, then you haven't really died
