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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
- Aristotle (385–323 B.C.), Greek philosopher, polymath
I don’t pretend to have all the answers to some of life’s great questions, that have vexed some and caused others to live ascetic lives, perhaps in a monastery or convent; that have plagued philosophers and thinkers for ages, and that have resulted in some opting for a life of service while others pursue a life of acquisition and hedonism, or drugs and nihilism.
What I do have is a system that seems to work for me.
I have several friends who do not share that system. Some are agnostic, some likely atheists. Some had a similar Protestant upbringing, some not.
As an aside, some of those individuals also differ politically, and we have disparate global and national views.
One might ask, why remain friends with people who, on a core level, are so different?
I think it depends on how it is looked at.
In some ways, we are all similar.
