If "man is a being in search of meaning," as Plato once said, then I would suppose that man created civilization to pass the time until he finds all the answers. There is a great deal of conflict and frustration to be found in the history of man. I believe in the idea that history repeats itself over and over throughout the ages. If this is so, then man's progress is like an obese person …showed first 75 words of 2721 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2721 total…another victim of his own ideation that he must follow a certain pattern of thought and action in order to avoid not being able to answer his own questions. When in doubt, create the premise that satisfies your need and then call it faith! Perhaps, that becomes the true realization: that in order to really live as a full human being, we must let some things go as being beyond what we need to know.