Formerly, a member of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Now, Stoic. — Ciceronianus the White
I am a self-made man who worships his maker. — unenlightened
When you phrase it like that, I don't know why you left, lol. — Thorongil
nemo judex in sua causa (Y) — TimeLine
Do you mind telling us the thumb-nail sketch of why you went from Catholic to Stoic? — Thorongil
An interesting and legitimate caution. But although a Stoic partakes in Nature and the creative intelligence which permeates it, and so can be said to have an interest in it, a Stoic doesn't judge Nature in the sense referred to in this legal maxim. So, I think I'm okay. — Ciceronianus the White
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Buddhism is chill though so I said that. — darthbarracuda
But, with respect to the question of conversion - conversion experiences are basically 'aha' moments. They're those moments when suddenly - it's always suddenly - you see or realise something that you had never known or appreciated previously. — Wayfarer
for me it is not a realisation of something that I had never known or appreciated, but rather a realisation of something that I did know, something subconscious that I may have always felt but failed to articulate and so the 'aha' moment is almost like making sense of these feelings. — TimeLine
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