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Three questions have divided man from the beginning: Question 1: Is man independent or interdependent?
Which of these is most like you?
Some people are most aware of themselves as individuals; the self as an independent center of freedom and initiative is to them more important than the sum of its ties. The obvious corollary is that men must, in the main, make his own ways through life: that what a man gets will be primarily of his own doing. The image of the “self-made man”, that “What I am today I owe to no one but myself.”
On the other hand there are people who truly only feel fulfilled when part of a society. The separateness of their being seems hardly real; the impressive thing is the web that binds. Though all our visible bodies are separate, on a deeper level we are all one, like icebergs grounded in a common floe, we are one. It is the attitude that says “Send not to ask for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.”
When disaster strikes in the world, are you more likely to say “I am glad that wasn’t me!” or “What can I do to help?”
No man is an island, or a market.
No man has thoughts on his own. All thoughts and concepts come from a collection of ideas presented to man from his birth. All beliefs, concepts, thoughts, ideas, actions and hopes come from one of two sources, God or Satan, good or evil.