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 !decvax!brunix!jss