Embora estritos, em certo sentido os fariseus eram de tendências progressistas: pois continuavam aplicando a lei do Antigo Testamento a nova e mutáveis circunstâncias da vida diária. Todavia, os saduceus, confortavelmente situados na vida como estavam, queriam manter o status quo, e, assim sendo, resistiam a qualquer contemporização com a lei, a fim de que não viessem a perder suas favoráveis posições de abastança e riqueza. Visto haver sido destruído em 70 D.C. o centro do poder sacerdotal, o templo, juntamente com grande número dos saduceus propriamente ditos, o partido dos saduceus se desintegrou. Os fariseus, porém, sobreviveram, tendo-se tornado no alicerce do judaísmo ortodoxo de séculos posteriores.
It is this most basic human loneliness that threatens us and is so hard to face. Too often we will do everything possible to avoid the confrontation with the experience of being alone, and sometimes we are able to create the most ingenious devices to prevent ourselves from being reminded of this condition. Our culture has become most sophisticated in the avoidance of pain, not only our physical pain but our emotional and mental pain as well. We not only bury our dead as if they were still alive, but we also bury our pains as if they were not really there. We have become so used to this state of anesthesia, that we panic when there is nothing or nobody left to distract us. When we have no project to finish, no friend to visit, no book to read, no television to watch or no record to play, and when we are left all alone by ourselves we are brought so close to the revelation of our basic human aloneness and are so afraid of experiencing an all-pervasive sense of loneliness that we will do ...
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