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31/10/2006 11:59:48
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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31/10/2006 07:26:36
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Politics
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Miscellaneous
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>Attitude, after all, is everything.

While I'm all for having a positive attitude, trying (not "try" as "attempt" but as "invest effort") not to worry too much, and generally am an easy-going person, this sort of exaggerated mindless optimism is so out of this world. Wouldn't recommend this story to anyone with diabetes.

>Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34.
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>After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

You lost me here. Not just for posting an obviously religious piece of pedagogy, but because I think this is just plain wrong. Just as wrong as the "don't worry, be happy" attitude.

Maybe we define worry differently. To me, worry is a mental process where you realize the seriousness of a problem, and start working on a solution. And there you most often have more than two choices. But without worrying, you'll just made the initial choice to not even start to think of a solution. Then what - allow the blind stochastic nature of events to hand you a solution (good for you, bad for you, irrelevant, good now but bad later...), and be happy because you didn't worry?

Sure, there's always a choice, and if your mind is capable of imagining such non-duality, there's quite often more than just two choices to make.

Really, why is Christianity so bent on defining life in terms of binary logic? More than two too complicated?

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