RE: What Gives You Peace....
June 30, 2021 at 7:39 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2021 at 8:07 am by vulcanlogician.
Edit Reason: changed some words to better express one of my questions
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(June 29, 2021 at 9:49 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: To the OP: why put this thread in the Christianity section? Did you have a specific direction you had hoped the thread had gone?
I was thinking about this too. And two questions come to mind when I give it some thought:
1. Is the peace provided by religious belief a "legitimate" peace?
(and, more broadly, if this had been, say, posted in the philosophy subforum)
2. How instrumental are one's beliefs --religious or otherwise-- to a peaceful state of mind?
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You and Nudger both talked about "flow"... as in "not approaching life's events with resistance, but (like a leaf) floating along the river... perhaps going where life takes you.
Now, I know that neither you or Nudger is a Daoist. But, as you both know, this is a principle of Daoism. (...if Daoism can be said to have principles...).
In any case, it is a belief, isn't it? Or is it?
Perhaps it is an attitude? Or modus operandi? Or maybe something that the both of you found that simply works.