PoetPhilosopher
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My anxiety has decreased since quite frankly, giving up the pursuit of truth such as religious truth, and instead pursuing "peace and tranquility". People may tell me it is a bit lazy and may have social consequences such as residue from not properly pursuing facts through to completion. My argument would be that there are a lot of brilliant minds in the world who can think, but it hasn't been enough to turn the world completely around.
Whereas in the past I might have been concerned about being correct rather than "nice", now I focus my brain power on thinking, "How can I soften myself to other people and their ideas? Or how can I entertain them or provide comic relief?"
You may ask why I pursued truth. My answer would have been a narcissistic "I want to be correct and find the truth so I know what to believe to get into heaven." Now when I look back, I think, "I'm not going to believe any of that stuff. I'm going to focus on the present." And I just really don't believe I'll become free from thinking "me, me, me" about myself until I accept that others in the present are more important than what happens to me after I die.
I also had a bit of a breakthrough in my worldview, in which puzzle pieces are coming into place, and here's the weird thing - it's like the puzzle pieces were in front of me all along and I wasn't able to discover them.
Anyways, I've talked a lot about serious subjects when I first joined. But expect this to be probably one of few serious posts from me from now on. I achieve a sense of peace by zoning out and meditating a bit, I just need to remember to still think a little because well, it can be good to. I'm just not burning all my resources pursuing truth anymore. I feel the pursuit of knowledge leads to thinking the glass is half empty. It causes us to get to know the glass and learn things like say, the preservatives in the drink, or the imperfections in the glass.
Whereas in the past I might have been concerned about being correct rather than "nice", now I focus my brain power on thinking, "How can I soften myself to other people and their ideas? Or how can I entertain them or provide comic relief?"
You may ask why I pursued truth. My answer would have been a narcissistic "I want to be correct and find the truth so I know what to believe to get into heaven." Now when I look back, I think, "I'm not going to believe any of that stuff. I'm going to focus on the present." And I just really don't believe I'll become free from thinking "me, me, me" about myself until I accept that others in the present are more important than what happens to me after I die.
I also had a bit of a breakthrough in my worldview, in which puzzle pieces are coming into place, and here's the weird thing - it's like the puzzle pieces were in front of me all along and I wasn't able to discover them.
Anyways, I've talked a lot about serious subjects when I first joined. But expect this to be probably one of few serious posts from me from now on. I achieve a sense of peace by zoning out and meditating a bit, I just need to remember to still think a little because well, it can be good to. I'm just not burning all my resources pursuing truth anymore. I feel the pursuit of knowledge leads to thinking the glass is half empty. It causes us to get to know the glass and learn things like say, the preservatives in the drink, or the imperfections in the glass.
