Religion and emotional willpower

[aeon]

Atheism is a kind of faith, and stakes a claim which cannot be verified.

As a reasonable individual, I make no claim. Agnosticism it is for me.

If I force myself to make a claim, I am caught between imaginary ideas of nothingness and deism.

A theist I am not and likely will never be.

Also, willpower is a word, and an idea, yet seems to not map to any kind of physical reality, even if it is applied to things post hoc. It certainly has no neurological correlate, aside from those maladaptive states where psychological pressure drives behavior—speech, hyperarousal, perseveration, stereotypy, for example, or the sleep-negating effects of various phethylamines which induce various focused behaviors which are aberrant to the homeostasis of the self and the social network of the individual.

I also see willpower as having a moral component. Willpower is an externalization and disavowal of the self. It is the placing of agency, and the responsibility for it, outside the self, so a renunciation.

I say nay. One chooses to do, or not, and owns that choice. No one and no thing external to the self may carry that burden. To live as such causes nonintegration, and the free play of shadow energy.

Cheers,
Ian

 

[Fruiteloop]

As I think of willpower,

to me it is just the effort you put into something because power is an energy and will is what you intentionally use the energy for.

so in believing something that can be easy or it can be hard, we have in a belief something wrapped up in it that entangles itself.

I was sleeping when I had the strongest feeling that things exist and the feeling that things exist was amazing, can you imagine things not existing? That be impossible if we had no being behind it keeping it as it were "in place". This brings back memories to me.

I am not alway feeling this way because I think I have attention issues with the energy I have. Normally my mind is on other things.

So it can feel dull in most of my life but I cannot deny that these feelings are real, like yellow is a real color, to me things exist is profound.

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The thing about society that I do not like is that we disagree too much, people think rules are supposed to be good and they can be but not all the time. If a rule is stupid but people try and force that on to you then they must be stupid as well because by default and logic any rule that is wrong must be stupid? So rules can be good but not rules that come from stupidity. That is why society when it tells you things that cannot be 100% correct and people must question it. Otherwise you inject or drink bleach because it is the rules some dumb dumb made up. Life is hard enough but people disagree on allot, and try to force stuff onto others sometimes.

With any belief as long as it is not going to be put onto anyone else it is fine to believe it. But when people debate beliefs then emotions get involved. And when emotions get involved people feel attacked or whatever and they begin acting like the other person is defective and must be some kind of threat to them. Of course this goes beyond religion. I am not exactly applying any of this to religion. I am just saying that humans have problems forcing others to do stupid things. And if they are, the reason comes from belief in some way which has emotions to it.

My ability to cope with people is ok, I just have to remind myself that saying stuff can make people feel like they must protect themselves.

It is not exactly like I need to tell people they are wrong to make myself self feel right. Or blame people.

Only I have been thinking too much about my problems.

Those problems come from people and me having to keep hypervigilant all the time because I don't want to say the wrong things.

I am worried all the time because doing the wrong things can make things turn worse. You always need to be on your toes for that.

Society follows norms. It takes effort (willpower) to follow them.

Otherwise I am fine with rules.

Rules can help,