My point is that "positive thinking" is redundant unless the "thinking" is actually believed, unless it's - positive belief. And then that belief is only positive if it's either a true belief, or a somehow worthwhile placebo. If it's 'thinking positive' just for the sake of being "positive" then that's just superficial gratuitous nonsense.
I say fuck "positive thinking", it's only truly positive if it's constructive in some way, not just positive for the sake of it, thinking "positive thoughts" etc, it's idealistic nonsense often...in practice, in my experience from the dozens of self-help books I've read, videos I've seen, and crap I've heard about it in general everywhere.
Like the whole self-affirmation bollocks that leads to no where in and of itself. I prefer to mediate on thoughts, rather than mindlessly affirm positive thoughts. If it's constructive it's good whether it's "positive" or "negative" IMO, because whatever is considered "negative" can be positive in the long run because of the constructive thought processes you may go through when thinking that way.
I don't see how Jesus is pointing that out at all. From me it just seems like "With faith you can move mountains...but we can't move mountains...so you see, our faith is weak!" - it could just be that we can't fucking move mountains! Whether that's a literal mountain or a metaphorical one, a problem analogous to the difficulty of moving a real mountain, that is also therefore so difficult you might as well say it's impossible. Where does faith come into this? How does that make any difference? We just can't move mountains! What's that got to do with it somehow being 'because our faith is weak'?
EvF
I say fuck "positive thinking", it's only truly positive if it's constructive in some way, not just positive for the sake of it, thinking "positive thoughts" etc, it's idealistic nonsense often...in practice, in my experience from the dozens of self-help books I've read, videos I've seen, and crap I've heard about it in general everywhere.
Like the whole self-affirmation bollocks that leads to no where in and of itself. I prefer to mediate on thoughts, rather than mindlessly affirm positive thoughts. If it's constructive it's good whether it's "positive" or "negative" IMO, because whatever is considered "negative" can be positive in the long run because of the constructive thought processes you may go through when thinking that way.
I don't see how Jesus is pointing that out at all. From me it just seems like "With faith you can move mountains...but we can't move mountains...so you see, our faith is weak!" - it could just be that we can't fucking move mountains! Whether that's a literal mountain or a metaphorical one, a problem analogous to the difficulty of moving a real mountain, that is also therefore so difficult you might as well say it's impossible. Where does faith come into this? How does that make any difference? We just can't move mountains! What's that got to do with it somehow being 'because our faith is weak'?
EvF
