Okay, bags packed ready to go - just a quick one before I leave.
"Mankind's desire to label or symbolise everything is its own worst trait. Why do we do it? Why can we not accept things as just *being so*? Anything else just complicates things unnecessarily."
Its not that people "desire" to label or symbolise everything. Its just that our minds do that whether we want them to or not. Personally I think its a good thing - its our urge to understand the universe. Without symbols and labels there would be no language, for a start. I don't understand why you'd see this as our "worst trait". Would that not be something far more serious and horrible, like selfishness and greed (or intolerance)? I think our drive to make symbols is a wonderful thing, and that the symbols we create are (usually) very beautiful & imaginative. I say celebrate our urge to symbolize and mythologize! Right, I'm out of here...
"There is something inherently reverent within the human race, a sort of mystical pride in life." (AQ)
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