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I'm just re-remembering the secret to happiness and the remedy to all the stresses and difficulties of life: let go and be free.

Why is it so hard to remember something so simple, especially when it makes so much sense at moments like this?

Ommmm....
 
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I'm just re-remembering the secret to happiness and the remedy to all the stresses and difficulties of life: let go and be free.

Why is it so hard to remember something so simple, especially when it makes so much sense at moments like this?

Ommmm....
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I know ~exactly~ what you mean. I would say, it's easy to understand that you simply must let go and be free, but to actually practice it is more difficult. Why? Because we attempt to achieve it in a very paradoxical way - we attempt to "let go" by grasping freedom!
 
Man, Sigmund Freud sounds like he was a downright creepy dude. All he ever talks about is suppressed sexual or aggressive drives - he must have had problems along those lines himself.
 
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Maybe.. but Allah wasn't.

Believe ye in part of the Scripture and disbelieve ye in part thereof ? And what is the reward of those who do so save ignominy in the life of the world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be consigned to the most grievous doom. For Allah is not unaware of what ye do.
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http://rationalrevolution.net/articles/jesus_myth_history.htm

A pretty detailed study of the gospels as a work of fiction.

Why do we say that Mark was written first and the others were copied from it? This has to do with what is called the "synoptic problem". Basically, so much of the text of Mark, Matthew, and Luke is shared word-for-word that the only explanation can be that there has been extensive copying between the texts.
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The Gospel of Mark appears to have been written in response to the conflict between the Jews and the Romans that resulted in the destruction of Judea in 70 CE. It may have been written during the war between the Jews and Romans, or shortly thereafter. The main thrust of the story is that the Judean Jews brought destruction upon themselves. This is not at all unusual, indeed this was a common opinion among both Jews and non-Jews and was also expressed, though in a different way, by the Jewish writer Josephus. Indeed many Jews blamed themselves for their plight and for the destruction of their state by the Romans. This self-blaming of the Jews follows a clear tradition in Jewish culture and literature and is expressed repeatedly throughout the Hebrew scriptures. This is because the Jews were often dominated by foreign rulers. Jewish scriptures and literature saw the plights of the Jews as being a result of their inability to properly please their god. For this reason, Jewish literature prior to the writing of the Gospels was often pessimistic and full of self-admonishments and stories of suffering. One of the many examples of this is Psalm 74, which was supposedly written some time around 900 BCE.
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Twas an interesting read.
 
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960mg let us all be one
 
Howdy P&S,

As time goes by, it has become apparent that deficiencies in reasoning and/or communication render my posts incogent with alarming frequency. I surmise that learning some formal logic might help me express myself and avoid critical failures in intellect. Anyone have any advice on how to go about learning this? I start with like, first order logic or something, right? Should online texts be enough to get a decent grasp of this, or would it require a more interactive approach?

Maybe limited participation here would be useful, but I'm dreadfully ashamed of my previous activity in this subforum...

P.S. I've been thinking about the "S" in the forum's title, and I wonder if Folklore wouldn't be a better term, spirituality is inadequately defined, and recognition of relevant topics as folklore would make it easy to establish the context of a discussion, whether it be a rational evaluation of folk knowledge, or purely folkloric discourse (I'm tempted to say meta-folklore, but I am not confident that I'd be using the term correctly).
 
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I surmise that learning some formal logic might help me express myself and avoid critical failures in intellect.
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Maybe not. For the most part, people tend to apply reasoning in domain specific ways. For example, people are pretty bad at consistently applying modus tollens in formal contexts, but they're not bad at all with familiar, concrete applications, eg, figuring out who needs to be carded at a bar to ensure that no one who's underaged gets served. Unfortunately, formal symbolism is just another domain specific context; even people with explicit training in formal logic and/or statistics tend to succumb to the same fallacies.

Should online texts be enough to get a decent grasp of this, or would it require a more interactive approach?
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I'd be sure to practice proving theorems and using derivational rules more generally.

I wonder if Folklore wouldn't be a better term
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I think that many would apply this term far more restrictively than you. If I were to have my way, I'd just remove "spirituality".

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^ In many ways I find that creating a labeling distinction between philosophy and spirituality is as false a construct as saying "alcohol and drugs".
 
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