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
 
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