RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
October 5, 2014 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2014 at 9:50 am by Tonus.)
(October 5, 2014 at 9:30 am)Riketto Wrote: Peace of mind is when you come to the conclusion that this life is nothing but an illusion.That is not what peace of mind is. That might be a way of achieving peace of mind. Peace of mind is defined as the absence of stress or anxiety. For me, that means that it is a state that we constantly work to maintain once we achieve it, by learning how to deal with the pressures and anxieties of life. For you, it appears to be a constant and permanent state that is reached when you strip your physical existence of meaning or purpose.
My peace of mind is not affected by your explanation that I do not have it, nor is my happiness diminished by your claim that it isn't total or permanent. This is because I have learned to assign the proper import to such claims or comments from people who cannot accurately judge my thoughts or my life. In so doing, I can maintain peace of mind and happiness. I understand that for those who believe that there is only one path to such things, my approach has to be discredited. That's fine by me; if that's how you achieve peace of mind, then that's what you have to do.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould