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And I think it is possible to do this, without a particular religion.
The people I've encountered in my life the *best* at this, are the ones with an unshakable faith in God. Although, having grown up in a very Asian part of Northern California, it seems like a lot of the East Asian disciplines, philosophies and religions also impart this kind of inner peace on a person's soul - seemingly no matter what obstacle life throws at them.
A lot of times, the people who achieve this kind of zen through more secular methods of Western philosophy seem to have the least fragile balance on it. Too much adversity, and they quickly run into trouble maintaining their peace with the world.
But - Westerners in general seem fragile in this regard, even those who claim to find peace through faith. We believe what we believe when everything is going fairly smooth - when we run into adversity, we tend to become pessimists about all of our beliefs and values, rapidly.
It is one of the things that worries me about any significant social decay of our society. I believe if our particular society were to have a significant collapse, we would very quickly resemble a Mad Max type of society. We're Live and Let Live when comfortable, but we're Do Unto Before Done Unto when the facade of civil society is stripped away.
Tue Dec 29 2020 02:53:09 EST from arabellaI am mostly at peace with the world, some of the people in it, not so much.
I don't "achieve" that peace, I'm just chill with it.
Donno if any of you are fellow ordained pastafarians but seems they have a newly updated certificate.
This topic could be placed in Today I Learned, Politics and Propaganda or Religion.
TIL, that Jehovah Witnesses do not vote. Jovos don't vote, as they believe the Lord is the only thing you should worship. I am fine with that idea, people who worship any politician have lost their way.
The leader, or spokesperson for the Jehovah Witnesses has stated that politics has torn families apart and that the family is important, therefore politics is evil.
While true, politics DO directly effect their lives, and total inaction is not beneficial. Ignoring it wont make it go away.
Support != worship.. Or at least it does not have to.
Mon Mar 15 2021 10:21:59 EDT from zooerThis topic could be placed in Today I Learned, Politics and Propaganda or Religion.
TIL, that Jehovah Witnesses do not vote. Jovos don't vote, as they believe the Lord is the only thing you should worship. I am fine with that idea, people who worship any politician have lost their way.
The leader, or spokesperson for the Jehovah Witnesses has stated that politics has torn families apart and that the family is important, therefore politics is evil.
The leader, or spokesperson for the Jehovah Witnesses has stated that
politics has torn families apart and that the family is important,
therefore politics is evil.
That guy gets 15 darknetuserpoints
I've been a Protestant my whole life.
You just have to HIDE these things, and not very well.
Trust me.
Or maybe it is just the Protestants.
Mon Mar 15 2021 18:29:14 EDT from zooerWoa,woa, slow down.... you might have to give up drinking and promiscuous sex.
This one... is so brutally honest. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBjsFAyiwA
Exactly. :)
Mon Mar 15 2021 21:10:46 EDT from zooer
2021-03-15 18:29 from zooer
Woa,woa, slow down.... you might have to give up drinking
and promiscuous sex.
oh snap. does this mean I am not going to be let into the kingdom?
2021-03-15 18:29 from zooer
Woa,woa, slow down.... you might have to give up drinking
and promiscuous sex.
I don't do much drinking and I could as well give up on sex entirely.
Wait, no drinking or sex? But i always heard the great pasta bowl in the afterlife had a beer volcano and stripper factory....
Now im confused.
I don't like pasta, I don't drink, can I stay for the strippers? Then again in the afterlife there probably are no consequences, so maybe I will enjoy a beer or two.
Is it for everybody or just for members of the FSM?
Not real sure, it seems contradictory here. You get your own version, but are doused with seasoned leftovers. I guess that isn't so bad, you get forever food.
Tho even the truly evil still gets beer and strippers.. Just not the good stuff.
the Pastafarian Hell is similar to The Great Pasta Bowl, except the beverages are stale, the strippers all carry STDs and there are ugly aliens everywhere. It's located in the worst part of the Pasta Bowl that no-one likes. It is only truly evil people who get sent there (not non-believers in the FSM, as they will go to their own 'heaven' or version of it). All non FSM believers will experience a rainfall of spaghetti leftovers for the rest of their afterlives. The leftovers will include the different sauces and seasonings.
There are also non alcoholic beverages that come out of the beer volcano. To accommodate children and people that dont drink beer. Oh, and rest assured they wont be hot, like most volcanoes, its got air conditioning.
:)
Thu Mar 25 2021 20:58:20 EDT from zooerI don't like pasta, I don't drink, can I stay for the strippers? Then again in the afterlife there probably are no consequences, so maybe I will enjoy a beer or two.
Is it for everybody or just for members of the FSM?
No.Some only do it to keep food on the table, and do not take their work home.
Fri Mar 26 2021 13:47:00 EDT from zooer>> the strippers all carry STDs
Don't they all?