Families and Friends
Written by OTiTO
Families and Friends
The deepest and most primal human relations can be found in the compounds by friends and family members with each other. In the Swiss encyclopedia this is summed up very appropriately in the following citation:
„ Although the family has changed in the development of humanity, nevertheless, it is a basic institution of the society and as old as the culture itself. The extraordinary strength of the family that has withstood the greatest historical and social disasters in spite of all transformations, explains by the fact that the family apparently corresponds to a general human need “
There is no human realm in which the whole spectrum of virtues can be more extensively practiced, as in the closest human relationships of family and friends. Love, kindness, admiration, dignity, courtesy, respect, trust, benevolence, forgiveness, tolerance, self-control, empathy, consideration, kindness, honesty, decency, fairness, loyalty and justice can nowhere be better examined and trained by a human, as in his family and among his friends. Within these social connections a human being can be strengthened in his spiritual qualities and stabilized in the quickest and easiest way.
Comparing the basic human relationships of family and true friendship with mundane political institutions in terms of its longevity, then the political are true ephemera. By all millenniums and centuries the family, in whatever form had always, continuance. This says a lot about the different value these cultural institutions are given by people. Completely in contrast to their political systems the people have kept here once the family, as a meaningful body of value. The indirect question of the modern Wikipedia definition,
"whether the biological reproductive-function of the 'Human' species requires the institution of the 'Family', is partly disputed. ... The family shapes, perhaps, the quality of the reproduction of a society.“
aims to decompose and questioning this working concept of the family.
As long as there are continuing wars and crises on this planet, I would question nowadays rather more every earthly existing political system, than the institution of the family! The above indirect question is aimed at producing quite consciously certain attitudes and developments in the society which should open the doors for the “nice new world of soulless slave populations“.
Should it be possible for a group on Earth to destroy and abolish the institution of the family, the last bastion for the virtues and the humanity is lost.
The future of the humanity, with a healthy physical and spiritual progeny depends highly on intact and stable families.
On this planet, the original paradisiacal state of man is barely to realize, without intact family structures however, on the account of it´s biological necessities and spiritual needs. If some “clever” élite circles aim at a society without families, they may not hesitate and live themselves through the experiment, first of all within their own Clans. Genetically the purest descendants grown from the retort, who grow up without any family connections and which you yourselves must never meet and get to know - wouldn’t that be “really marvelous”? Certainly, if you are in favor for it – DO IT !
Nevertheless, I recommend to the lion's share of the social people – stay always nicely alert and follow your common sense !