Uh oh, what's on Charels' mind now?

[odcchaz]

Back at christmas time I got the "World According to Mr. Rogers" book for a friend but I read the whole thing cause I really like books like that, and frankly, they are responsible for a lot of the things I write about in here. For years I've been getting little quotes and life lessons from them and I apply them to my life. Every so often one

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[philosphe4aday]

*clears throat* traaaaaa-DIT-tioooon, TRADITION!, dun dah dun dun dun, TRADITION...!
sorry, its the first thing that came to my head :P

tradition is frequently related to (and thus condemned) the more conservative of our peoples.
*tirade tirade tirade*

[odcchaz]

Yeah, but do you see what I'm talking about with its importantce nonetheless? I think people should at least aknowledge where traditions are and then make more compromises on how to alter them, or do away dependong on the situation. If we know something valuable is or might be lost then we can attempt to work around it. Like the little house in the country! You know, when they built the whole bif city around it and then eventually they moved the house all together and it was a-ok. :-D

All day long I'd biddy biddy bum, if I were a wealthy man!

[philosphe4aday]

what little house in the country?

[odcchaz]

This little house.

[tamoteru]

It took me a while to find out wtf you were talking about! I was looking for something that was a direct quote. However, I think I found what you were looking for:

Erik Erickson, a psychologist whose insight into human development has been an important foundation of our work here in the Neighborhood, said that "tradition is to human beings what instinct is to animals." Imagine the chaos if animals lost their insticnts. So would it be if human beings were to lose all their traditions. The study of history helps keep traditions alive. When we study how our ancestors dealt with challenges, we can (hopefully) learn from their successes and failures, and fashion our responses to challenges in even more naturally human ways.

[odcchaz]

cool! thanks

[odcchaz]

Good point.

I guess we are in little danger of falling apart :)

[rageundersilk]

I think tradition was being related to instincts because tradition is an important way for knowledge from our past to be passed down to our future. Traditions go beyond written histories and cound act as a sort of practical history for our families and social groups. Sort of like religion, they're a way for passing on important information about how to live, how to treat each other, and how the world works. Being progressive or refusing the current conservative ideas of morality is not a rejection of tradition and won't leave humans without our "instinct." Traditions have to be altered and new ones created as parts of society decide on new and better ways to be. Keep in mind that organized religion and tradition are not the same. The church may say we're going into a heathen pleasure and money worshipping spiral of destruction but that doesn't mean they're right. ;)