« on: February 12, 2012, 12:01:57 am »
I like Epictetus' philosophy because it reminds me of my own personal goals which is to learn the difference in what I can control and what God controls, "keeps me asking if I'm trying to take over God's role?" But most people that try to explain Epictetus' thoughts seem to imply that he thought we were not in control of creating along with God...which I feel that we are and when we use these apatheia concepts and apply them in self checks and corrections on ourselves God seems to open the door for changing the things around us...co creating with God! Do I want to rid myself of all emotions or even just my negative emotions?
That would be true apathy in English terms...dead inside! I want to learn to stop blindly reacting to all my emotions and learn to use them for what God designed them to be, signs and signals for me to do a self check and ask why do I feel this way? What is causing it? And I can say it is never an outside thing causing the emotion...I absolutely like my emotions since I have started learning to not blindly react to them and I'm very grateful that God designed them to be my helpers in seeing myself because when I can see myself better then I can see the outside world a little more clearly..
What did Jesus say, remove the timber from your own eye first, then you can see clearly to help another!
I had someone once tell me that they felt compelled to label me as "a self regulator"...I do believe God has designed all of us to be just that and that God is teaching us how to use that..like teaching His children..
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