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In a comparison of personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of [[intimacy]] in both friendships and associations. Friendship and association can be thought of as spanning across the same [[continuum]]. The study of friendship is included in [[sociology]], [[anthropology]], [[philosophy]], and [[zoology]]. Various theories of friendship have been proposed, among which are social psychology, social exchange theor], equity theory, relational dialectics, and [[attachment styles]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend]
In a comparison of personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of [[intimacy]] in both friendships and associations. Friendship and association can be thought of as spanning across the same [[continuum]]. The study of friendship is included in [[sociology]], [[anthropology]], [[philosophy]], and [[zoology]]. Various theories of friendship have been proposed, among which are social psychology, social exchange theor], equity theory, relational dialectics, and [[attachment styles]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend]
==Friendship in history==
Friendship is considered one of the central human [[experience]]s, and has been sanctified by all major religions. ''The Epic of Gilgamesh'', a Babylonian poem that is among the earliest known [[literature|literary]] works in [[history]], chronicles in great depth the friendship between [[Gilgamesh]] and [[Enkidu]]. The Greek [[religion]] had, as paramount examples, the friendship of Orestes and Pylades, and, in Virgil's ''Aeneid'', the friendship of Euryalus and Nisus. The [[Abraham]]ic [[faith]]s have the story of David and Jonathan. Friendship played an important role in German Romanticism. A good example for this is Schiller's ''Die Bürgschaft''.
The Christian Gospels state that [[Christ Michael|Jesus Christ]] declared, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."(John 15:13).
In philosophy, [[Aristotle]] is known for his discussion (in the ''Nicomachean Ethics'') of ''philia,'' which is usually (somewhat misleadingly) translated as "friendship," and certainly includes friendship, though is a much broader concept.
==Quote==
==Quote==
The [[Thought Adjuster]] will recall and rehearse for you only those memories and [[experience]]s which are a part of, and essential to, your [[universe]] [[ascension career|career]]. If the Adjuster has been a partner in the [[evolution]] of aught in the human [[mind]], then will these worth-while experiences survive in the eternal [[consciousness]] of the Adjuster. But much of your past life and its memories, having neither spiritual meaning nor [[morontia]] [[value]], will perish with the material brain; much of material experience will pass away as onetime scaffolding which, having bridged you over to the morontia level, no longer serves a purpose in the universe. '''''But personality and the relationships between personalities are never scaffolding; mortal memory of personality relationships has cosmic value and will persist''.''' On the mansion worlds you will know and be known, and more, you will remember, and be remembered by, your onetime associates in the short but intriguing life on [[Urantia]][http://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper112.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper112.html&line=179#mfs].
The [[Thought Adjuster]] will recall and rehearse for you only those memories and [[experience]]s which are a part of, and essential to, your [[universe]] [[ascension career|career]]. If the Adjuster has been a partner in the [[evolution]] of aught in the human [[mind]], then will these worth-while experiences survive in the eternal [[consciousness]] of the Adjuster. But much of your past life and its memories, having neither spiritual meaning nor [[morontia]] [[value]], will perish with the material brain; much of material experience will pass away as onetime scaffolding which, having bridged you over to the morontia level, no longer serves a purpose in the universe. '''''But personality and the relationships between personalities are never scaffolding; mortal memory of personality relationships has cosmic value and will persist''.''' On the mansion worlds you will know and be known, and more, you will remember, and be remembered by, your onetime associates in the short but intriguing life on [[Urantia]][http://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper112.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper112.html&line=179#mfs].
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