I'm not specifically speaking about Christianity or religion,
Really many beliefs fall into my thoughts below.
If a person is strong enough, I think it is better to be out in the world, yet aware of there being more.
(Not that I believe in such myself, but if I 'did believe in something after)
There are people suffering, that one could aid,
Though living by example can be good as well.
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Though perhaps even living in a monastery,
One could aid others.
"Science and education the way we know them did not appear until the 17th and 18th century. Until then, the centres of knowledge, education and culture – in Western Europe and Russia alike – were the monasteries. Unexpectedly, the people who left the secular world gave it multiple inventions that have continued to play prominent roles in people’s lives to this day.."
One is 'still of this world, being human,
Even should one practice some aesthetic, spartan, abstaining lifestyle, that is not focused on rampant greed, power, and acquisition at the cost of others.
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To be in the world but not of it.
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People sometimes talk of the body as a vessel, a shell, this life temporary, these materials not what we take with us.
To be not of it, is to focus on development of ones character, I imagine.
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I don't know if the religious should isolate or not,
It doesn't seem a bad way to live according to their beliefs,
But it seems better even, to try to help others.
(Depending on the religion)
Depends on one's means maybe,
And the character of the various schools.
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People often yelp about religious people doing a disservice to their kids,
But eh, same people would probably think it's fine to pull kids out of Nazi Germany school teaching Aryan Power.
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I don't know the to what extend should they engage or choose not to engage.
Not everyone is 'capable of doing 'more,
Sometimes people can do more harm than good,
Depends on the people maybe.
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To convert and retreat, applies the same for many a cause maybe,
Send people out to gain people, power, and land.
Increase one's Enclaves, land, inner territories,
Insulate the center, while wearing away at what surrounds.
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My view is 'many creeds ought do both,
Weak and lukewarm believers, will only get converted if sent out,
Will not raise their children properly,
Will not maintain their community properly.
Strong believers, are able to maintain themselves, their descendants, and communties.
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Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Though that's not to say what is Caesar's cannot be changed.
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Really it even applies to the individual.
Common theme with some mental health, is separating oneself from bad environments.
You are what you eat, even life experiences.
“On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles - whatever one may choose to call them - we know: the best of us did not return.”
One may want to help others,
But environment can harm oneself, and one's tribe,
Degrade morals.
