Here’s my two pence. I prefer a two pronged approach to life, and happiness.
In the short-term, when life deals me cards I prefer a stoic approach. This way I can minimise the suffering caused by an inevitable situation.
Whereas, in the long-term I try to shed that stoic attitude as it can lead to calloused, insensitive moral skin and an apathy to my life situation. I know many pious people with this attitude and many more oppressed people who believe nothing can be done, and are content with that.
Instead I let my dissatisfaction guide me and try to leave the game life’s got me playing for a more preferable one.
A note: Shifting between the two-modes is a considerable difficulty, for me and for others. I know of a person who lets people close to him physically attack him because of his religious beliefs in nonviolence, love and righteous suffering. To do good I feel people need to santify a nagging dissatisfaction within themselves. While that person may be perfectly happy with that, if extrapolated it’s a very cruel world indeed with righteous sufferers on one side and a violent uncaring minority on the other.
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Here’s my two pence. I prefer a two pronged approach to life, and happiness.
In the short-term, when life deals me cards I prefer a stoic approach. This way I can minimise the suffering caused by an inevitable situation.
Whereas, in the long-term I try to shed that stoic attitude as it can lead to calloused, insensitive moral skin and an apathy to my life situation. I know many pious people with this attitude and many more oppressed people who believe nothing can be done, and are content with that.
Instead I let my dissatisfaction guide me and try to leave the game life’s got me playing for a more preferable one.
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A note: Shifting between the two-modes is a considerable difficulty, for me and for others. I know of a person who lets people close to him physically attack him because of his religious beliefs in nonviolence, love and righteous suffering. To do good I feel people need to santify a nagging dissatisfaction within themselves. While that person may be perfectly happy with that, if extrapolated it’s a very cruel world indeed with righteous sufferers on one side and a violent uncaring minority on the other.