Religion Impact Your Life

[Mukesh Sharma]

Religion Impact Your Life

Helps you resist junk food
Puts a smile on your face
Raises self-esteem (if you live in the right place)
Soothes anxiety
Protects against depressive symptoms
Motivates doctor visits

 

[SalixIncendium]

Religion Impact Your Life

Helps you resist junk food
Puts a smile on your face
Raises self-esteem (if you live in the right place)
Soothes anxiety
Protects against depressive symptoms
Motivates doctor visits

Religion and Prozac appear to have quite a bit in common.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Religion Impact Your Life

Helps you resist junk food
Puts a smile on your face
Raises self-esteem (if you live in the right place)
Soothes anxiety
Protects against depressive symptoms
Motivates doctor visits

Which religion do you think does that?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Religion left me depressed, suicidal, miserably, and overflowing with anger. The religious have given me much grief. The overall impact on my life doesn't make for a flattering tale.

Religion and Prozac appear to have quite a bit in common.

That must explain why Prozac makes me intensely nauseous and unable to keep breakfast down.

 

[Augustus]

Motivates doctor visits

Most (or at least many) doctor visits are unnecessary anyway so this seems like a bad thing.

Helps you resist junk food

When I look at Americans, one of my first impressions is just how well Jesus has managed to help them resist junk food

 

[Liu]

Religion Impact Your Life

Helps you resist junk food
Puts a smile on your face
Raises self-esteem (if you live in the right place)
Soothes anxiety
Protects against depressive symptoms
Motivates doctor visits

Pretty much all apply to my religion and its effect on me

Well, the first only sometimes, but if not then typically because of reasons (a la "I need more calories and when I eat only healthy food I have trouble eating enough, so let's add some more sweets/carbs").

 

[Jumi]

Sounds like you've found a positive religion for yourself. I don't understand the doctor visits thing though.

 

[Liu]

Sounds like you've found a positive religion for yourself. I don't understand the doctor visits thing though.

Can't speak for the OP, but for me, that point would basically be caused by that my religion encourages me to take better care of myself.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Religion Impact Your Life

Helps you resist junk food
Puts a smile on your face
Raises self-esteem (if you live in the right place)
Soothes anxiety
Protects against depressive symptoms
Motivates doctor visits

Hm. Religion helped me know what spirituality is. It gave me an umph that I wouldn't have know in this life time what it meant to be spiritual. Religion gave me a community in which to bounce my concerns. Religion provided me with sense of self.

As for the type of religion, some have their pros and cons. All in all though, its pros gave me a foundation to where I can determine what spirituality is and what it is not.

I follow a "solo" religion now. I do things for my wellbeing with sometimes peers but not always. I would like to go to meetups where people share the same interest.

As for the types of religion, I've only been a part of one religion no more than a year that was detrimental to my health. I left immediately one I understood the method in which that religion brought in and literally and bluntly bring converts into their lineage sect.

Outside of that, don't know what else.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Sounds like you've found a positive religion for yourself. I don't understand the doctor visits thing though.

Doctor is more popular than Reverend these days.

 

[stvdv]

Religion left me depressed, suicidal, miserably, and overflowing with anger. The religious have given me much grief. The overall impact on my life doesn't make for a flattering tale.

That must explain why Prozac makes me intensely nauseous and unable to keep breakfast down.

My experience with religion in India makes me very happy. I would like to try out Prozac; much cheaper than a ticket to India

 

[Jumi]

Can't speak for the OP, but for me, that point would basically be caused by that my religion encourages me to take better care of myself.

That sounds good to me. Thumbs up!

Doctor is more popular than Reverend these days.

Different type of robes, with a lighter color scheme. Like the light green ones better...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

My experience with religion in India makes me very happy. I would like to try out Prozac; much cheaper than a ticket to India

I suspect the Hindu religion would probably give me a better experience than Christianity, especially since transgender people are acknowledged in Hindu, have some divine protection, and have some gender bending gods in its own pantheon.
As for Prozac, it's (obviously) not for me, but it can help some. For everyone it can't replace a good experience.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Well, my current views are a positive for me in many ways.
- Awe of Nature and the Cosmos. A want to preserve the natural world and a non-anthropocentric view of the world.
- A more democratic vision of reality. As the Gods work together and debate on actions to take, so should we have our voices heard and considered. (Yes, the classical view of the Olympians is as a monarchy but Zeus is not a dictator or absolute monarch. He is more a wise elder and respected leader in anthropomorphic terms.)
- It is life and world affirming. The world and Cosmos is as it should be and perfect as is, even when it's hard. Life is a gift and we should make the most of it. We are all viewed as sovereign beings (yet subject to Natural Law, including Fate, which the Gods are also subject to).
- Pushes me to care about myself and strive to do better. Life is viewed as a journey to experience and cultivate Virtue. When you fail or mess up, you just make amends if needed and try again. There's no guilt tripping or shaming.
- It celebrates physical existence and the body. Of course, we're all familar with the beautiful nude statues of the Theoi and Heroes the Greeks and Romans made. They celebrated the idealized human body. There is nothing dirty or shameful about it. Along with that, sex is viewed as a part of life with no negative connotations. There's multiple love and lust deities. LGBT people are very represented in the myths and there was nothing negative about it. So love of the body and acceptance of your natural sexuality and identity as a normal variation of the diversity of Nature are prominent.
- Learning is prized. I'm sure we're all familiar with Athena and Athens.
- Tolerance and plurality are ideals. We should be able to exist harmoniously in society despite whatever differences or disagreements we have.

Those are the big ones, to me.

 

[Mukesh Sharma]

Thank you for sharing your views