tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36151286.post5015318635758530799..comments2024-01-21T00:16:52.988-05:00Comments on CHRISTIAN COGNITION: IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU:Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334880347109220874noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36151286.post-15673627608340807702012-08-10T00:35:47.872-05:002012-08-10T00:35:47.872-05:00In all seriousness though, I thought about it a bi...In all seriousness though, I thought about it a bit, and you sort of reminded me of something one of my favorite philosophers came to realize (though it's a slightly different conclusion). After living on the streets, penniless, and begging for his bread for years, all by choice, Diogenes of Sinope came to the conclusion that humility was impossible. No matter how hard he tried, he could not rid himself of pride and ego, because even as he seemed to get close, he realized that he was becoming proud of how humble he was.<br /><br />He realized that there was no hope for humility, that the best one could hope for was indifference. His school of thought would become known as the Cynics (from the Greek word for "dog," which is what many people called him), and this school would result in the off-shoot school that became the Stoics, which was one of (if not the) most popular philosophy in the Mediterranean during the 1st century. Stoicism had a major influence on later Christians (though I don't think Jesus himself was very much familiar with Stoicism, quite a few Church Fathers were former Stoics, some say Paul was a Hebrew who practiced Stoicism before converting).<br /><br />These groups coined the term "apathy," which for them meant that no matter what happened, the best reaction was no reaction. They would have hated the haughty hubris you're talking about, instead preferring a more "stoic" response, especially since they believed in the ultimate nature of Fate, so it's not like there's any sense in celebrating (or getting upset over) something that was bound to happen.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02504734487692109101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36151286.post-8591267150101350122012-08-10T00:11:43.671-05:002012-08-10T00:11:43.671-05:00We want nothing more than to trumpet ourselves.
I...<i>We want nothing more than to trumpet ourselves.</i><br /><br />I've tried doing stretches for years, but frankly I'm not even close to being about to "toot my own horn," so to speak.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02504734487692109101noreply@blogger.com