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Originally Posted by Charlatan
SecretMethod... this is what I am trying to get at by proposing that this become a more secular practice as well.
Good post.
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Charlatan...I was thinking about your post last night while I was in the shower, and it crossed my mind that one of the reasons why, perhaps, that this practice should be more mainstream/secular/what-have-you, is because we don't know how to do without. We, as a generation, have NEVER had to sacrifice. Our parents' generation had to sacrifice their friends and brothers (Vietnam) and our grandparents' generation had to sacrifice people as well as goods (WWII). If your grandparent was born in the 1920s, then they are all too familiar with the struggle that was the Great Depression. Personally, my grandparents lived through hard times during World War II, including near-starvation. Have I ever faced that kind of hardship? No. So whether you look at it as sacrifice, doing without, or self-denial--I think in the larger picture I hope it helps us realize just how lucky we are to live now versus then.