stress-FREEDOM » familiarity http://stress-freedom.net Epicurean Happiness Guidance Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:26:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 researching proverbs: familiarity http://stress-freedom.net/2008/09/researching-proverbs-familiarity/ http://stress-freedom.net/2008/09/researching-proverbs-familiarity/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:50:06 +0000 Galenios http://stress-freedom.net/?p=75 A series of research has been carried out with young people. The more they found out about each other, the less they liked each other. The author’s conclusion is that “familiarity does breed contempt”. This might even be plausible if the participants’ primary intention is pairing.

http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/05/why-familiarity-really-does-breed.php

In intentional communities (like e.g. the Epicurean friendship circles from 300 BCE till 500 CE, where the intention was ataraxia, i.e. stress-FREEDOM) knowledge of and respect for the other person is a precondition. For such communities the underlying principle is then “birds of a feather…”

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