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@daily · 2:00

How can we deal with disappointment?

Hey, Swell. I just finished listening to this great conversation started by Average Joe. That's about Purgatory and more specifically, the purgatory we are all sitting in as we wait to here the final results of the 2020 election here in the United States

Share your thoughts here.

@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 3:07
So I exist in a state of mind where I don't expect anything to happen. I don't think there's a formula that I've done everything to write the right way, and therefore this has to turn out the way I want it to. I exist in a mindset that the order of the universe is chaos. Right? So I've spoken on here before. I'm an atheist. I don't believe in God. I don't believe if you pray and your prayers will be answered
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@bowie
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 3:56

@AverageJoe Can atheism limit our perception as much as religion?

But I also wonder if you have ever thought that that view that it can limit you to imagining what's potentially possible, like, do you feel like that lack of belief in some larger thing, larger being spirit, not necessarily God energy, whatever we want to call it, is taking care of us in some way
@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 4:33
If one comes from a background where you were so deeply indoctrinated into these belief systems that really don't make much sense. But that's just me. Maybe that wasn't the question you were asking, right, Rachel
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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 2:47
And that's kind of what religion is to me. It's not my job to prove there isn't a God. It's their job to prove there is. And so far in every engagement I've had with people who are devoutly religious, their evidence has been swell. Lackluster is a word that comes to mind, but I think everybody should be open to the ideas that you don't know anything. I guess that's it for me
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@bowie
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 3:28

Chaos and spirituality

But that religion has exploited in some ways and used as a means to control and shame and condemn and engage in all sorts of toxic behaviors that we see in economic systems and all other sorts of organized systems that we have in the world. And I don't see religion as being much different than that. So I'm curious from both of your perspectives and anyone else who might be listening or during the conversation if that differentiation exists for you, too
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