2006-12-25 07:20:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
it next to Godliness !!!!!!!
2006-12-25 07:25:14 · answer #1 · answered by Texas T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cleanliness is next to Godliness. This world is so filthy. Our own body is full of worms, and microscopic bugs. even the top of our skin has mites all over it. It is recommended in the Vedas to bathe at least two to three times a day to remove ignorance and dirt from the body. Also uncleanliness can attract ghosts which can effect our consciousness. go to stephen-knapp. for details on Vedic Culture.
2006-12-25 18:43:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To the biological extent that cleanliness keeps us healthy (mmm, anyone want nachoes served on a plate with three week old bacteria growing on it, yum yum), the answer is self evident.
The social and psychological determination comes from its associations: morality, riteousness, goodness, beauty, social cohesion (if you stink, you are offending the group aesthetic), etc. etc.
It is also supposed that a 'healthy' respect for cleanliness suggests a psychologically sound mind. To some extent this is true (I have had a hard time attending to my hygene because of my myriad mental disabilities) but a well-dressed, well-scrubbed person could just as easily be so because of the need to camoflauge their interior demons. It goes along with the idea that clean-cut people are 'good' people, largely inflating the importance of personal hygene in determining one's character.
It also has connotations of beauty as well. When someone imagines someone beautiful, they are not only aesthetically pleasing visually but also in terms of every sensory experience: hearing, touch, taste (in terms of kissing) and smell. Dirty clothes, B.O., mud caked-on face, unkempt hair, such an image conflicts with the ideas of beauty (and social acceptance) that most people have, and thus form a social reprimand when encountered in public. To the extent that people may strongly desire to 'please' others, so too may their desire to conform to standards of presentation work to mask their insecurities.
2006-12-25 17:52:02 · answer #3 · answered by Khnopff71 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sigh
Another non-question.
What are you asking about? Which people? What obsession? What kind of cleanliness?
Not everyone is, are you asking about an obsessive disorder?
Are you talking about clean dishes, clean houses, people who shower once a day, people who shower nine times a day?
What are you asking?
2006-12-25 18:57:44 · answer #4 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For some of us that like to have everything neat, clean,
means we are very meticulous and organized.
We are more likely to get a job and keep it. We clean people
have a higher I.Q. and are better understanding. Not to mention,
we clean people are less likely to suffer from depression and less
likely to get into drugs.
What do you have against clean people?...
One of the best physicists, scientist, and inventors were also very clean obsessive, haven't you heard of Howard Hughes?.
2006-12-25 16:47:21 · answer #5 · answered by Sabine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the short answer: Purel and the FDA are turning us all into germaphobes as they fill us with more and more fear of death over something as simple as a cold or the flu.
The Long answer: Religion. Most mass religions always promoted some way of cleaning up before service, the Romans had coin operated holy water dispensers to wash your hands, people of today dress nice to go to church on Sunday and REALLY nice to go to church on holidays. "Sunday best" anyone?
2006-12-25 15:56:39 · answer #6 · answered by Cory W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know everything around me has to be clean because my life is so crazy I wouldn't be able to deal with a messy crazy house as well
2006-12-25 16:37:55 · answer #7 · answered by Mel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Germs bad .
Clean is good .
2006-12-25 19:02:58 · answer #8 · answered by missmayzie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋