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Why do people value themselves and everybody else on of how much money they're making or stealing?
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because wealth equals power in the eyes of the superficial society we belong to
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Why do people only able to feel good or superior after being able to put others down? Is it an inferiority complex?
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technically that is a superiority complex, and stems from going through the same experience as a child, says Sigmund Freud.
I believe it is something that can only be fixed once the person doing so can see the damage they are causing to the other person
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Why so many men are attached to their ego with everything they do?
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because we are men and everything we do inevitably has our name on it, we attach our ego to everything we do because it shows everyone else who we are. Look at that Eiffel guy, he certainly wasn't a slacker in engineering class.
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Why choose lust instead of love? Is it because they are afraid to love?
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Lust has more immediate results. This is another bane of the society we belong to. We are in the world of here and now and Love is something that takes time. Today's society doesn't have the patience for love.
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Why many people are politicking in everything they do: In office, society, even family? Is it because they hate the truth about themselves or incapable to accept themselves truthfully?
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We are only human and inside us is the need to forward our own agendas. Sadly we think there will never need to be cooperation.
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Why so many people believe in the power of lying? Are they ashamed of the truth?
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Ashamed of the truth or knowing the lie will get them something they desire?
EDIT: I said I wouldn't answer all of these, but I really want to put my opinion for this one
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Why do people cry and feel upset and sad even when they believe the person leaving them is going to meet God and live in heaven? Or is that a selfish cry? Or something else? If Christians really believe the dead would meet God and live in heaven bearing in mind even though men don't even come from heaven in the first place then there's no condolences needed. THROW A PARTY INSTEAD and congratulate the family of the dead. Anything less is hypocrisy. and we all should try to be dead ASAP. If you don't think so then something is wrong...isn't it?!
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I certainly agree. But death gives us the ability to reflect on things, how to culminate what the dead person has achieved and to make us realize that they meant something to us.
Your uncle Phil wasn't much of a talker, and you two never saw eye-to-eye, but he served in vietnam, and he saw things most people would never imagine. If Uncle Phil hadn't died, you would probably go on resenting him. but after he is gone do you learn why he was that way, and that you should appreciate the person while they are still there to hear you and feel your hugs. (sorry, I could really use a hug right now)
In america, after you bury the deceased, you DO throw a party kinda. everyone gets drunk and eats everything, that's a party enough.
but we take pride in the fact that we honor the deceased in such a somber fashion. beccause while they are going to heaven we have lost someone close to us. in the end it is selfish, but so is buying yourself a candy bar on your way home from work.