John was probably originally a disciple of John the Baptist.

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It me to understand the world and my place in it. for example, (and i know i’m using the terminology ‘historical perspective’ loosely here; some of my examples may be better termed an ‘evolutionary perspective’) knowing that all humans can trace their ancestry back to a common ancestor who lived in southern ethiopia ~200,000 years ago makes me feel connected to everyone on the planet. knowing that some of our ancestors left africa about 70,000 years ago and interbred with more archaic hominin species in europe and elsewhere, me to see the stupidity of white supremacist ‘purity of the race’ themes. seeing how religion was used to enslave people, and how callously lives were thrown away by those in power in the world wars of the past century makes me feel extremely fortunate to be living in the modern era. and, perhaps most importantly is that this knowledge makes me for the sacrifices our ancestors made to get us to this point, and determined to do my part to make the world a better place for the next generation.

Direct democracy was practiced in ancient greek city-states as a form of direct representstion. it meant that each male citizen had a right to speak it’s mind publicly and had equal political rights. the citizens direcly participated in political institutions and had direct control over decision making process. the main reason why is this not possible in the us is because of the size of the coutry. city-states were relatively small compared to the population of the us. some remainings of direct democracy we can see today in the swiss local government organization.