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Originally Posted by andrew112  This is my whole theory:
I believe that all success comes from God. In order for someone to succeed in any way, they must temporarily follow the way of God. My definition of "temporarily" varies widely, as there are many different degrees or levels of success. For example, someone that decides to abstain from eating junk food for a couple weeks has achieved success to a certain degree. However, if someone decides to abstain from eating junk food for an entire year, that person has achieved success on a much larger scale, as the results are far greater than the preceding results in the previous example. Think of it as making a small shift in personal habits; over time that small shift brings the person to a totally different destination than if the person had not made that small shift. Picture the difference between making the shift and not making shift as the difference between the degree measure of an angle being 30 degrees and 0 degrees. The greater the degree of discipline, the greater the success.
Here is another theory:
Sometimes discipline can lead to pleasure, if one chooses to experience that pleasure. However, if one does not discipline themselves in any way, how can there be any long term pleasure? The greatest pleasures of all are always acheived through discipline. The pain of not disciplining oneself is far greater than the pain of disciplining oneself, and the pleaure experienced from being indulging and not disciplined is far less than the pleasure experienced from disciplining oneself. For example, being disciplined results in a feeling of well being and being guilt-free, which is the greatest pleasure of all IMO.
I am mentally ill btw, which explains the disorganized ideas that are sometimes unrelated to one another. I have schizophrenia, which I am currently trying to overcome, along with my other mental illnesses.  |
If everyone believed in success coming from god, then no one would have pleasure. You might want to account for your schizophrenia when relying on a god to run your life for you.
Unless your god told you that you are going to live long enough to enjoy the fruits of your labor, then torturing your self with the " pain of discipline" is a pointless venture. Don't be the man who dies with a bank full of money, never to enjoy the time they actually do have on this planet.
What extreme benefits are you planning on receiving, and why do you feel that the second you get there, all you will have is pleasure? You think that the second you get your pleasure, that you will no longer have to work for it? Or will you drop your whole abstaining from pleasure thing all together? What exactly is your goal? Where do you plan on going? It's almost like you think that when you finally achieve success, that will be it. A believer of god shouldn't even care so much about extreme pleasure, unless you mean the extreme pleasure of heaven?