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Why do people not reply to our hellos and goodbyes? 

What brought my attention to this was a trip to Paris. Before my trip, I had read that people over there are very big on being polite and on saying hello and goodbye. Once I was over there, I tried to practice this and I noticed that I started having a greater awareness of others. I thought that it was a beautiful thing that an entire city of people seemed to encourage this awareness and respect of other people. Since that trip over five years ago, I have kept practicing this. It is amazing how many people would rather treat you like an inanimate object than acknowledge that you are someone alive and worthy of mutual respect.

I once read that one of the biggest problems in African countries where war and killing was a commonplace thing was that children would just walk right up to the bodies of the dead and poke and beat them with sticks and further defile the bodies. There was a loss of the importance and sacredness of life at the childhood level of existence.

I fear that many video games are encouraging this attitude in children. I don't care if your a gamer and you wish to defend or even flame me for my opinion. It's true. It is a fact that if you pretend to do or be something, you will become more like the thing that you are doing or pretending to be. This is an important psychological and occult teaching.

Try reading Vonnegut's Mother Night for a an example.

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