What are your core beliefs?

Quoting Truth Seeker

8. I wish I had killed myself when I was a child.

But you are still here with us. That can only be because you see a purpose in being alive, but perhaps you don't see that you see that.

Quoting Truth Seeker

I never feel good enough.

For people who are cognisant enough, it becomes clear that life is not about feeling good. This world sucks, undeniably. But that doesn't stop us from pursuing pointless things that make us feel good or make us happy despite how much suffering there is.
I think you would benefit from reading a comic series called Berserk. It is a fun read too.

Reply to 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.

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.

Reply to 180 Proof Quoting 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.

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.

Quoting Truth Seeker

What are your core beliefs?

I would not say I have any core belief. Identity is something fluid, that changes, realising that may be the difference between being scarred for life or healing from a traumatic experience.
Think for yourself: what am I besides my name, my appearance, my knowledge, my titles, my accomplishments, my grades, my bank account, my belongings, my relationships, my reputation, my memories, all these things that can change?
Resting your identity on beliefs will damage your sense of self when those beliefs are challenged. If there is one thing, however, is that I am dedicated to truth and to be a spokesperson for it, while at the same time recognising that some subjects are beyond truth: culture, politics, love, friendship.

Quoting Truth Seeker

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.

You put upon yourself more duties than one can accomplish in a single life, and yet death is still desirable to you. Do you not see the contradiction here?
The more duties I realise I have upon myself, the longer I wish I would live, such that sometimes I wish I would live forever, regardless of whether that life would be pleasant or horrible.

Reply to 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.

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.

Quoting Truth Seeker

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

Not only is it impossible to do, but perhaps it is not desirable to make everyone happy. See for example this article https://iep.utm.edu/experience-machine/ (pleasure machine)

Reply to 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.

Reply to 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.

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

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).

Reply to 180 Proof

Keep throwing the insults, hypocrite.

Reply to Benkei :up: :up:
[quote = paraphrase of J.S. Mill (re: conservatives)] Religious people are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are religious.[/quote]
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

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.

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

Reply to 180 Proof

Shhh "do no harm" remember?

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