What are your core beliefs?

Truth Seeker

What are your core beliefs? My therapist asked me what my core beliefs were. I thought about it and here are my top ten core beliefs.

1. The world is full of suffering, inequality, injustice, and deaths.
2. I hate being alive. I wish I never existed.
3. I wish I could go back in time and prevent all suffering, inequality, injustice, and deaths but I can't.
4. I wish I could make all living things forever happy but I can't.
5. I wish I could make all living things all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful but I can't.
6. I have saved and improved many lives but nothing I do is ever enough. I never feel good enough.
7. I am tired of my CPTSD, Bipolar Disorder and Chronic Pains.
8. I wish I had killed myself when I was a child.
9. We are all doomed to suffer and die.
10. I wish nothing ever existed.

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↪Lionino

Thank you for your reply and recommendation. What are your core beliefs?

The reason I haven't taken my life is that would harm my family. I have a duty of care to them. I have a duty of care to all living things. I do my best to save and improve all lives, but I can't save and improve all lives despite my best efforts. 99.9% of all the species to evolve so far on Earth are already extinct. The remaining 0.1% will also die.

180 Proof

Some "core beliefs" which I try to live by:

Do no harm as in: What we find harmful, I try not to do to anyone'.

Have courage as in: I expect the worst, prepare for the best and try to accept whatever comes.

Trust evidence as in this motto: In Nature We Trust.

Truth Seeker

↪180 Proof

Some "core beliefs" which I try to live by:

Do no harm as in: What I find harmful, I try not to do to anyone'.

Have courage as in: I expect the best, prepare for the worst and try to accept whatever comes.

Trust evidence as in this motto: In Nature We Trust. — 180 Proof

I love your core beliefs. They are much more helpful than mine. I am working on replacing my core beliefs with helpful ones. Thank you for sharing.

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↪Lionino

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. My primary desire is to make all organisms forever happy (including the dead ones and the never-born ones) but this is impossible for me to do. I can't do any of the things I really want to do e.g. prevent all suffering, inequality, injustice, and deaths and make all living things all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful. I suffer constantly from chronic pains. I also suffer from CPTSD and Bipolar Disorder. If I could cure myself of all my illnesses that would be the preferred outcome, but I can't cure myself. My death would be a relief from my constant suffering. However, I am not going to self-terminate because I have a duty of care to others.

Truth Seeker

Here are some new core beliefs for me:

1. Live and help live, live and love.
2. Help all, harm none.
3. Life is worth living despite the negative aspects.
4. We work together to save and improve all lives.
5. We can't change the past, but we can learn from the past and change the future for the better by making wiser choices in the present.

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↪Lionino

Thank you for the link. The article reminded me of laboratory experiments where mice stimulate the pleasure centres in their brains until they die. What I want to do is different from both what the article says and what the lab mice did. I want to make all living things all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful because such beings would not harm others and would not be harmed by others. Such beings can will themselves to be forever happy. Of course, the scenario is impossible in the real world. It's nothing but wishful thinking.

Moses

↪180 Proof

If some group rapes and murders your own are you allowed to hit back or is it still “do no harm?” You really committed to that one? Or is it only until someone else crosses a line? I call bullshit.

Someone starts giving opinions or attitudes you don’t like “do no harm” is getting scrapped real fast. Bullshit. Like you.

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↪Moses

Go troll somewhere else. You're stupid AF, kid. :yawn:

Benkei

1. All religious people are idiots invariably holding beliefs that are unwarranted (eg. there's no proof for the existence of god(s)) or are contradicted by fact (flat-earthers) or think their particular assumed divine dispensation to be assholes is the only right way (leading to injustice).

Moses

↪180 Proof

Keep throwing the insults, hypocrite.

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↪Benkei

:up: :up:

Religious people are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are religious. — paraphrase of J.S. Mill (re: conservatives)

Amen. :smirk:

A link below to a thread dicussion ... for religious apologists like @BitconnectCarlos (of several decades of systematic collective punishment via mass murder, ethnic cleansing & apartheid)
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/851960

BitconnectCarlos

Atheists who spend considerable amounts of time or mental energy lording their atheism over theists are invariably idiots. The state of education in the US has backslide as race hustlers and DEI have made discrimination and hateful rhetoric against some ethnic groups acceptable while others have untouchable victim status.

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↪BitconnectCarlos

The topic concerns "core beliefs" and not core delusions (e.g. pet conspiracy theories). "Brain worm" troubling you today, BC? :sweat:

BitconnectCarlos

↪180 Proof

Shhh "do no harm" remember?

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↪BitconnectCarlos

:up:

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