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'Acceptance'
When you accept your life as it is NOW and not what you think it should be, you can really make a start on enjoying what time you have left.
Accept the fact that every human being is different, cherish those differences. If someone has a character flaw, forgive them, because we all have them.
Accept that people have different prioritys and beliefs, they will conflict sometimes. When they do stay calm and try to keep the peace.
Accept the fact that everything ends, Including your time on this earth.
Accept that there will be bad times as well as good times, keep your friends close and you will get through it.
Never hold a grudge, it only interferes with the rest of your life.
Never lie to those nearest, honesty will work out fine in the long run.
Never lie to yourself, if you know something is wrong, dont do it.
Always find time to say thankyou, especially to those who will not be with us forever.
As to "why everything 'is' " accept that we will never fully know.
I like your answer, Bob A Job, but there are two bits that I don't understand. I know what you are saying, but I don't 'get' them.
Accept that there will be bad times as well as good times, keep your friends close and you will get through it.
Never hold a grudge, it only interferes with the rest of your life.
I know what this means, when I try and take this pill, it keeps getting stuck in my throat.
MargeB, I'm not sure I've followed your post, which seems muddled and repetitive (sorry, I don't mean your thinking but the actual posting - chunks of it appear more than once, and it's spread across two web pages as well). But basically I just don't believe that Christians, and other believers, have 'badly messed up their lives'. That seems to condemn millions of our ancestors to having been stupid and wasteful - rather the opposite of those Mormons who try to baptise everyone who ever died, to get them into heaven retrospectively - even if in fact they led good and useful and happy lives. That's because I don't think religion has the profound effect on daily living you say it does; believers and non-believers alike love their neighbours or don't, buy bread or don't, save for their old age or don't.
As for whether it is rational to believe in God - well, you'll know Pascal's wager: it pays to believe in God because if he exists you gain by getting into heaven and if he doesn't you've lost nothing. But while evolutionary science may have shown Genesis to be no more than symbolic, just one creation myth among many, has it actually disproved God's existence?
(Sorry to post in two parts El D - I accidentally got myself on to the previous page while writing and couldn't double check what you'd written)
As far as fairies go, you're welcome to believe in them. Proving they do or don't exist doesn't prove God does or doesn't exist - they're a parallel case but not actually connected.
You're right about people picking and choosing what they believe, though as I think MargeB was saying religion doesn't really involve 'choosing'; belief is more profound than choice and you can't easily change your mind. But as for being not truly religious - well, that depends. Most of the posts so far, including mine, have loosely assumed God = Christianity. But there are a lot of Christianities (not to mention Islam). Some Catholics believe they'll go to hell if they use contraception, and others don't. That doesn't mean the latter aren't truly religious - their belief in God is just as firm as the others' - just that they don't accept the teachings of the pope. This doesn't make them non-believers.
So by your logic then I would be perfectly rational believing in fairies? God and fairies are both connected - noone has ever seen/heard/proved they exist to an objective audience. Merely stating the fact that they have not been disproved does not equate to a rationale for belief.
How will baptism help the deceased? I would prefer not to have some cult have me associated with it on principle, although you are correct in stating it will not effect me at all.
Such believers are not catholics then, as catholics take their lead from Rome. Under the catholic religion they would go to hell or purgatory or wherever.
El D, I must admit I'm not quite sure of the mechanics of how post-death baptism gets you into heaven. If it works with me, I won't complain. If it doesn't work, I won't complain. Pascal again, I suppose.
I'm not sure whether Catholics who use birth control are really Catholics or not. Certainly, no pope has ever told them they aren't and kicked them out. Churches try to reform sinners, not expel them. But some Catholic ABer might be able to comment on that.
I repeat that God and fairies aren't connected. If God were proved to exist, it would say nothing about whether fairies did or not, and vice versa. You might as well say 'If you believe in the dodo you must believe in the ivory-billed woodpecker' - both being non-existent (because extinct) birds. But they've just found some ivory-billed woodpeckers... and yet dodos are still extinct. They're parallel cases, but they're not connected.
Rereading your question, Trillipse, I find it kind of funny, since I came through almost an identical situation. At the sharp (your) end, it is pretty angst-ridden, I didn't find that very pleasant. Think about your mind and brain. It's a big neural network, and also a kind of hierarchy. Much of what it has worked out kind of comes from the top down: 'meaning of life' and 'religion' have network links to all kinds of things like 'social responsibility', 'motivation', 'opposite sex', 'ethics', 'relationships with others'. In one fell swoop, you have started flicking switches at the very top. This is pretty hard on your poor brain, it now has to start working to rearrange stuff. I have friends who were in the same situation, and the same happened to them. Far from religion being 'segregated' in peoples lives and minds, it infiltrates most things. You may want to do some self-help courses to add a bit of order and direction in your life.
On a different note, I remember listening to this great tune at the time, by one of my favourite bands:
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/the-offspring/the-meaning-of-life.html
MargeB, you are kinda twisting the facts. Abortion??
The church views fucundity as a gift. Quote "The view of the Catholic Church on contraception is that one should abstain from sex, unless it is for the purpose of procreation. Using a condom prevents procreation and the Church therefore see this as morally wrong."
"The state has a responsibility for its citizens' well-being. In this capacity it is legitimate for it to intervene to orient the demography of the population. This can be done by means of objective and respectful information, but certainly not by authoritarian, coercive measures."
Just to be clear, I m a catholic and my views are not that of the Church, I believe contraception should be used and do not think sex is just for procreation. I do however, still see no contradiction in the views of the Church in terms of morality.
Octavius, I'm not sure what you're saying in your post. Catholic definitions of 'abortion' and 'contraception' do give rise to an overlap of these two things in reality.
Catholicism says that human life begins at conception. Many contraceptive pills have a failsafe mechanism, and the IUD (coil) has a primary mechanism, that are designed to get rid of a fertilized embryo. This action is regarded by catholicism as abortion.
So, Octavius, where is the twisting of facts?