Community…

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Community generally means a social (humans are social beings) group of any size who reside in a specific locality. Unfortunately, in our fast moving world and especially in highly developed areas created by the industrial revolution, finding like minded people is becoming more and more difficult. Many have cyber contacts from a few to thousands, but the personal and physical contact is almost non-existent. This is merely a dilemma that confronts modern humanity and one we need to face and accept. The pace in the 15 minute cities is a reality and it is not going away. The Stoics say, ‘Suck it up and get on with it!’ According to Google a little over half of the world population identify as monotheistic which creates their community. Another 1/5 bringing the total to about 72% broadly believe in God or a higher power, although this does not directly equate to formal adherence to a monotheistic religion. So roughly 3/4’s of our global population have an answer and it would seem that’s good, although why all the infighting? Socrates never wrote anything down for fear that his ideas would become dogma creating slaves instead of free thinking individuals. His point was that divine revelation is personal and not transferable from one person to another. Simply put; religion starts with an answer and philosophy starts with a question…

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