What do you think is the ultimate solution to all of life's challenges?

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Divine Power said:
Have you managed to touch grass yet?
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Been doing it a lot lately, actually. A few days back I needed to walk to a neighbor's house to help them free a trapped kitten, and ever since I've been taking walks.

At night, especially.... the hum of the streetlights is magical and makes me feel like I'm a kid again.
 
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Understanding of what's within your power.
Success in life is rarely found in great designs or perfect solutions, but doing the next right thing, over and over again. Many prefer to complain about grand injustices in the world holding them back instead of improving themselves.
Tackle what you can change in lieu of worrying about what should change.
 
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made me think of this banger, which was used to great ironic effect in an ep of "Mr. Inbetween":
 
Remembering and experiencing who one really is underneath the props, masks, and acts of the play which is commonly seen as reality. This is the only solution which can grant the relief sought. That's why any great teacher has tried to help those lost into reaching that state..

..and why every single last teaching left in their legacy has been distorted beyond recognition. Yes, that book. Yes, that philosophy/religion as well. Yes, also that one. Yes, really. Seriously - all of them.

Achieving a state of <knowing> derived from personal experience completely frees one from any control structure or negative emotion. Be still, and know. Ye are as..what you are taught to place beyond yourselves. The Truth of who you are is always true. It is the way, friends.
 
XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG said:
The idea that there is a divine answer or bigger plan sounds comforting, but it's a shortcut that evades the actual work of thinking clearly, judging honestly, and acting deliberately. "Trust and patience" are not virtuous when they're substitutes for understanding
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They don't have to be, and most principles you use today to 'reason' were invented by people who believed in God or had some other theistic structure. From Greeks to Romans to the various Continental traditions of philosophy.

Believing in God does not contradict reason or logic, thinking so is rather... unreasonable.

To answer the thread topic, looking for an ultimate solution to anything or declaring an ultimate solution to anything is a big part of the problem. If you need personally for the world to makes sense stemming from one thing itself in a vacuum you're creating a large part of the problem of confusion to begin with.

I personally believe in God, but I don't ascribe to Him the cause of problems that derive from men, nor do I ascribe to men or God the problems that exist as just part of how the world has to operate.

But beyond that, there's no solution. Faith is good, yes, but the 'solution' you need will be for you unique as you are unique. What comforts one person won't comfort another. Much as what horrifies, confuses, placates, etc one person won't do the same for another. You can share similarities but by our very nature there was never, can never, will never be one sum answer. Even if you feel that answer is "God" or "Faith" or "Reason", you still will find within that your own aspect that works for you.

That's not to say everything is legitimate or whatever, or that all are equal, or that everyone 'only has one' and that the 'first (you find) must be correct', and it's certainly not to say that people don't frequently find something that is objectively destructive that they will rationalize as being comforting or answering or however you want to phrase it, for themselves. But you will find something unique to you (or more accurately your personality type/archetype) and the only way to find that is by looking.

So the TL;DR of it is that the actual answer is to keep looking until you find it, then shut the fuck up about it so that politicians, corporations, politispergs, autists, retards, niggers, and homosexuals won't flood into it trying to pollute it if it isn't already polluted. If it is try to adhere to the version that isn't warped and enjoy it in private.
 
destroying their walls
sacking their town
killing their men
selling their children into slavery
hearing the lamentations of their women

duh
 
Otterly said:
Death.
Tends to fix it all
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Sadly, our stream of consciousness/experience is perpetual. The interim of unconsciousness must always end with consciousness emerging again. We do it when we fall asleep and dream/wake up. When we fall into a coma and hopefully wake up. The interim of unconsciousness naturally got interrupted when you were born.

Reality is kept running perpetually based on what must be logically impossible and what must eventually be logically possible. Nothingness can't exist, only objects/something can exist. So sheer nothingness is an impossibility. Which implies that being unconscious forever is simply not possible.

So life must eventually exist after the universe recycles itself an uncountable amount of times. All of the fragile conditions for you to exist must happen as well. You will always have the same parents, grandparents, etc. Different siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles if any at all. What you are racially will never change. I'm not too sure if you could be taller, smarter, dumber and so on as well. The lineages that create what you are racially must also exist.

Ideally, the civilization game is won, you get to live in heaven for a very long time and reunite with loved ones. There's no such thing as eternal life or death.

YHWH's Strongest Soldier said:
The answer you seek is found in the Torah.
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Bible doesn't explain much. Only value it has is what you glean from its stories. That story book caused a lot of trouble though. People shouldn't get so absorbed in biblical narratives (or any ideological narrative). The people who wrote that believed in flat earth, young earth, creationism, ethnicity beings transmitted by one gender (all cultures are guilty of this, not just israelites), and supernatural forces being responsible for pandemics. It also revises history and had some shitty genealogy that has gotten disproved.

Meanwhile Science has actually unraveled a lot of mysteries. The mystery of every population's general origins is pretty close to being completed. Say thank you to Western european + north italian men for the scientific revolution and enlightenment. Intiated exponetially technological progress, and our population's average IQ is not even the highest. So we produce expoentially less geniuses than Ashkenazi or some east asians. Exponetial tech progress is what give us a chance to accomplish milestones like reuniting with dead loved ones or extremely long lives.

Whiteness is the duality of the Aryan/western steppe herder and the early european farmer (we don't know their ethnonym sadly). The paternal Lineage is responsible for spreading their languages, culture, values, stories, religion, philosophy, and innovations. The maternal lineage is responsible for initating civilization, and being the mother root to so many things. Early farming, early pastoralism, early neolithic economy, and proto cities all have roots to them. They were the world's first imperialists.

The English did the best at honoring both sides of those legacies. Although, they are like 10-40% anglo saxon (with AS ancestry peaking in SE england). You can see other British Isles ethnic groups like the Scots also honor that legacy in a very similar manner.

Both sides complement each other, and also fight each other. Southern europeans conquered and subjugated north europeans in the roman era, and an inversion happened in later eras.

Each side has their flaws: both low class white trash and upper class elites honor the western steppe herder's diverse way of life. From being a hippy peddling drugs to a flashy status whore elite who is among the highest seats of power.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Then what happens when something bad happens to you and you cannot use God to console your plight? I'm not dismissing faith, but using faith as the ONLY solution would just leave you open for manipulation or naivety.
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Give an example of what you mean.
 
LemonMice said:
Meanwhile Science has actually unraveled a lot of mysteries.
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The fucking stunning irony of saying this never is lost on me, especially on a computer over the Internet.

Do you know who George Boole and Alonzo Church are? You should look them up. Particularly their beliefs. Ditto for anyone else who has this insane notion that science and logic are somehow antithetical to Christianity.
 
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