One of the best examples of a way that to me seems to lead away from natural religion and acceptance of death is the first Chinese emperor’s.  

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How real does religion need to be? People lived full, long lives before you were ever born. I know I will die, and animals seem ok with this fact.  I relate a short story about the last days of my grandfather.

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Sweep aside the complex reasoning, and live simply in nature.  At least that’s what Rousseau advocates.  What about the power games?  Is happiness difficult? I have faith in the simple and natural and think it rarely fails, when it truly is simple and natural.

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I read a passage from Rousseau’s Emile about how people complain about the rapidity of time but really don’t want it to go slower because they don’t actually enjoy their lives.  They aren’t happy because they aren’t really there at all – they’re preoccupied with the goals to which they’re always rushing.  There is natural calm and happiness, perhaps even a kind of immortality, in being fully present in this very moment of your life.  A wonderful topic of discussion.  Please share your thoughts. 

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The tumult, the throng of opinions proliferate and bombard, but the truth seems to be we are dust and will shortly return.

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Rousseau emphasizes caution about how much value you place on human opinion, especially about death.  

Why do animals know how to die?

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Do you truly enjoy your life, right now?  LL says she does sometimes, especially in nature, but when she has anxiety, she is oriented towards the future.  “It is a hundred times harder to appear to be happy than it is to be happy.” – Rousseau

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From JJ Rousseau’s Emile I read about the goal-orientedness of most and how life passes one by as we’re always thinking of other things.  Emile, his ideal student, even if he dies young, will live fully.  I relate this to Dostoevsky’s relating of the idea of immortality as being fully in the present.  LL relates this to a recent clip of Mike Tyson against Undying Glory.

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We summarize and discuss the Grimm’s Brothers story “Snow White & Rose Red” and discuss it.  In this story an old woman has two complementary daughters, one of whom stays at home and does chores, and the other who frolics in the fields, but who are also inseparable and spend a lot of time in nature together, even sleeping outside sometimes.  They are watched over by what their mother says is a children’s protective spirit.  One day a bear terrifies them all but becomes their friend, sheltered by them in winter, and the bear later dispatches a very rude dwarf whose beard the girls had cut repeatedly in freeing him from various traps he’s gotten himself into.  The dwarf’s death frees the prince from the spell the wicked diminutive had burdened him with, and the golden-clad prince marries the paragon of purity.  We draw parallels with the other more famous Snow White story.

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Rose Red and her sister seem almost two aspects of one character.  Why the two?  Comparing this story with Snow White & the Dwarves, we think maybe it has something to do with the dwarves, who are very different in this story than the other. (Please see the next clip linked below.)

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