THE UTILITY OF FAITH AND ITS REPLACEMENT BY STOICISM –“I cannot even begin to i

THE UTILITY OF FAITH AND ITS REPLACEMENT BY STOICISM

–“I cannot even begin to imagine what it would be like to live on this planet and not have faith.. Faith to me is my belief in something I can’t see, hear or touch.. Its my ” gray ” area and it gives my life meaning and purpose…”— Anon

I think I could restate that as, “I feel a deep need for a narrative against which to measure my status, and to judge my self worth in life, because outside of the hunter-gatherer tribe of pre-history, where we had directly knowledge of one another, and direct understanding of our status and self worth, that in all other eras – modernity, medieval, and ancient – my judgement of my status and self worth is beyond my ability to intuit, guess, reason, or calculate.”

I view this as a feminine or beta-male understanding of the world. But it is the most common understanding of the world that I know of.

The question is, whether confident male, less confident male, or cautious female, we can learn to use the stories of history, reason, and in fact, science, to achieve the same.

In fact, now that we understand stoicism scientifically, there appears to be no other ‘religion’ that compares to it.

Where stoicism seeks to make you immune to ridicule, guilt and shame; and to hone your positive virtues, thereby assisting you in changing the world. Faith seeks to make you fear guilt, and punishment, if you offend the world.

Hence why countries with much faith stagnate in poverty and those with reason leave the rest behind. (china, the west)