Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.
It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
If we want a great future in this world, we have to take God at his word, and God makes it really clear that society and civilization is held together by the glue of families... This is where the next generation of human beings are incubated and nurtured and matured - in homes. In families.
We must strive to become good ancestors.
I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.
I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
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