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05-18-2010, 04:03 PM | #1 |
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Is your faith pragmatic enough to satisfy your needs?
Religious faith is amorphous, changing and often practical. If a circumstance arises which confounds the then current understanding, it forces a rejection of the former concepts or at least a reformation.
Does your faith meet your intellectual, your social, your emotional, your physical, or your needs of well-being? Why or why not?
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05-18-2010, 04:09 PM | #2 |
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I enjoy the practical aspects of our faith community, the general good will and desire for self-improvement, and the willingness to forgive. Those elements satisfy a lot of needs.
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05-18-2010, 07:54 PM | #3 |
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Knowing what we actually need is always more satisfying than satisfy the need which might not need to get satisfied.
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Here's a mental health question regarding Islam from the Shia perspective. In Islam, killing seems permitted if a person threatens certain religious sensibilities, i.e., misuse of the Prophet's image and what not. And an infidel may be killed. My analysis of those willing to kill for religious reason seems to be motivated by anger, hate and resentment. Yet mental health specialists advise against holding grudges, retaining anger and the like. Several of the great religions Judaism, Christianity and to the extent one considers Buddhism a religion, forgiveness and allowing an affront to be forgotten for the mental health of an individual is essential. It seems to an outsider that holding a grudge, holding on to anger, even against one' enemies, is a core doctrine of many Islamicists. Isn't that bad for mental health of adherents?
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I know very little about you. But even though,your desire to hold such a wrong assumption for all these years and keep calling muslims out on that is beyond me. So here is my theory about why you are trying to actualize your assumptoins with almost zero fact repertoire. You are quite intrigued by what you have found about Islam. And you would probably be considering beocme a Muslim if there werenot too much social political back lash. So you are trying to delay the process by injecting the false alegations to the story in order to appase your otherwise avid soul. Which is indeed considered unhealthy for mental health. |
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05-20-2010, 01:43 AM | #8 |
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A general question I will throw out there:
Is your wife pragmatic enough to satisfy your needs? |
05-20-2010, 06:06 AM | #9 |
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Why would a pragmatic wife wants to stay married to an internet message board addict any way.
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