From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!jss
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: Religion-oriented question
Article-I.D.: brunix.1669
Posted: Tue Feb 22 22:33:11 1983
Received: Wed Feb 23 05:27:14 1983
References: psupdp1.1009

I read a pollyannish statement somewhere that said "We are all here to
make the lives of others better." At the time that struck me as quite
foolish and circular (then what are others here for? to have their lives
made better by me?). But I was VERY young then (I WAS young once, no
matter what people say), and now I can appreciate that the statement
says that other people are here to make MY life (among others) better.

And most of the time it works. Most people react positively to other
people trying to make things a little easier.

ThiThis does not REALLY attack the question of why we are here, I know.
It merely says, here we are, this is what we can do about it.

I admit that there are some very sticky problems in how to go about
it. One person's ameliorizing is another person not minding hir own
business.

What we try to remember is:  Life need not be a zero-sum game.

judith
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