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Originally Posted by Miss_Lonely_hearts
It is a made up narrative. Everything is a delusion remember VeeDDzz?
I was being a little rhetoric or poetic if you will. The point I was hoping to convey in the SMP thread was about the fact that you have more control over your experience of life than Western-thought would like you to believe. To acknowledge this, after all, means to not only acknowledge that you are more responsible for your happiness, but to also acknowledge that if you haven't been particularly happy, it is a failure on your own behalf: not 'the world' or 'other people' or 'the system' or 'the vacuum' or x, y, z. Externalizing the problem usually doesn't help resolving it.
And there are exceptions of course (mental illness) but these exceptions should never be considered 'the rule'. Something that's hard to do when you work with these exceptions on a weekly basis.
As for the remainder of the posts here, thanks for the input. I can't disagree with much of it, except that I do think there's value in the distinction between those who doubt less and those who doubt more. Whether this value has been acknowledged in the sciences yet or not, I've seen it in my own life. Maybe my own case study is biased beyond my own perception however and I can admit to that possibility.
Last edited by VeeDDzz`; 08-28-2015 at 11:44 PM.