(September 27, 2011 at 11:12 pm)lucent Wrote: So we should be content with what we have, that we should enjoy the blessings that are given to us now. Be happy within even if we lack without, to enjoy the portion God assigned us.
How very "Greek" of you. Maybe it will slowly start to sink in where your horseshit came from!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stoic
Quote:sto·ic (stk)
n.
1. One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain.
2. Stoic A member of an originally Greek school of philosophy, founded by Zeno about 308 b.c., believing that God determined everything for the best and that virtue is sufficient for happiness. Its later Roman form advocated the calm acceptance of all occurrences as the unavoidable result of divine will or of the natural order.