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Old 09-06-2007, 09:49 AM   #1
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Old 09-07-2007, 10:53 PM   #2
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It also doesn't categorize good and evil properly. Competition is not evil, nor is fear, anger, or ego in all but a few cases. Too mushy to carry a message.
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Old 09-08-2007, 06:40 AM   #3
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...but if you feed those things to the exclusion of the others you will be evil.
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Old 09-08-2007, 08:03 AM   #4
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It also doesn't categorize good and evil properly. Competition is not evil, nor is fear, anger, or ego in all but a few cases. Too mushy to carry a message.
Well then think about it given in the context for which it was made. Forget about the photo.

It's a story by people who made story telling an art. Imagine an old man sitting around a fire at night with his family. He sees his grand children are growing up. They have emotions just like anyone. He tells them basically we all have these feelings which sometimes oppose each other.

He tells them without lecturing.Whatever emotion you feed will become stronger. Arn't there times when we tamp down our own negative emotions because there is a better emotion like hope?

When we feed our fears we become fearful. When we feed our hope we become hopeful.
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Old 09-08-2007, 04:46 PM   #5
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Yeah, that worked for children of primitives, but now we're civilized... we drug 'em.
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