(September 25, 2014 at 12:10 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: No, I'm talking about what hinders your current actions. What prevents you functioning to your full potential. The cumulative effect is draining I guess.But there are any number of ways to deal with issues of self-esteem or self-worth or achieving our potential. The religious or spiritual approach can be double-edged: a person may feel better from the belief that there is a cosmic father-figure who cares about him and offers him a path to redemption, or he may 'accept' that he is naught but a fallen creature, undeserving of redemption, whose only option is to cheat his fate by letting a better person take the fall.
"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