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on those days.

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i think that. Mean, they were problems. They faced real choices. But in a sense, the choices were not real. By that, i mean, you could go into the church, you could go into religious community. You could abandon the world and hope, by doing that, to achieve salvation. But that was irresponsible. If you were the head of a family, it was impossible to do so a choice actually was not a real choice, when one must understand that this is a world in which o girls are set for married men, for nights, for whatever. And these girls are very rarely achievable. And people, people understood that. The point i've always made about the age of faith and this feeling of guilt, is that the difference between then and now is t they achieved their goals, no more than we did. In fact, they behaved, many oftena great deal worse than we did. But they worried about it. And that was the differenceth th. They worried about not achieving the goals, even though they knew perfectly well that those goals would be very, very rarey achievable.