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I was raised Catholic and had Paul's letters read to me every week, both in Mass and in Sunday school/CCD. The Stoics, Buddhism, and CBT proved much more fruit
by maroonblazer 5y ago
I was raised Catholic and had Paul's letters read to me every week, both in Mass and in Sunday school/CCD.
The Stoics, Buddhism, and CBT proved much more fruitful in finding healthy balance between my aspirations and capabilities.
- bitexploder 5y agoReligion likes to try and corner the market on the human condition. To be fair even the Greek philosophers had some religious beliefs attached to Stoicism, but what survived of their works that is of use to us here and now was their more generic life philosophy, which is quite practical and beautiful in places.