2006-09-23 22:29:01 · 13 answers · asked by S 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hello!! :o) I can't remember EVER being 'at peace' with myself. I'm always questioning everything I say and do. It frustrates me - to be honest. I'm often telling myself to just 'LET IT GO'!! lol Have a great day!! Craig!! :o)
2006-09-24 00:59:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peace, no never at peace. It is an absolutrely constant battle, mostly between what I know to be right and what society says is right. It's very frustrating when society make us decide between religious law and secular law. The choice is obvious, but is secular is not given precident then there are repurcussions that should not exist. So every day I have to weigh those things, and every day I find more and more things that my conscience screams at me that I should be doing that becasue of social, economic and political pressures.
Religious law should ALWAYS take precidence over secular law, but until enough people start living in that manner, the battle of conscience will contine.
2006-09-23 22:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by kveldulfgondlir 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wage a constant battle. Actually, I'm such a low-life that the only way I can pretend to be a good man is by trying to be an exceptional one.
I fail everytime. But I want to help everyone I can, give peace and love to those who will accept it, and still not give away principles I hold dear to me (most notably to speak the truth at all consequence).
So yes. I fight with my conscience all the time. I have a losing record.
2006-09-23 22:32:03 · answer #3 · answered by Rabid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think anyone is ever at total peace with themselves. You can have great long periods of peace but human nature is to constantly look and want change. So there will be times of unsettlement that until satisfied will not let one has the peace they desire. However, I see this as a good thing. To be in one constant emotional state would cause one to really lose touch with the reality of the world around them.
2006-09-23 22:37:43 · answer #4 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This varies from those mostly at peace with themselves to those that are constantly battling their conscience. The great majority of us are somewhere in between - sometimes at peace and other times battling with our conscience, depending on the circumstances.
According to Freud we have an ID (the naughty in us), the EGO - the self and the SUPER EGO (the conscience). This cocktail determines and answers your question - it depends on who you are talking to!
2006-09-23 22:37:42 · answer #5 · answered by Tom Cat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most usually I am at peace. I believe as long you try to do the right things you will be. At times however, there are things that we may think are the best or right things and although they are not wrong in the sense of sinful or criminal, they can sometimes be wrong for the intended outcome and then I believe that all of us have a case of the shoulda, woulda, coulda, whatifs. It is during those times that there is unrest of soul but it is also how we learn and grow and just maybe get better.
2006-09-23 22:38:07 · answer #6 · answered by beverly p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends.
Heedless people may feel that they are happy, they are in peace.
Followers of the One True God might have a constant and fierce battle with their lower selves to cope with His sublime standard of morality.
Finally, some may reach absolute inner peace; others may keep on struggling till the last minutes of their lives or may break away from His merciful cord.
2006-09-23 22:47:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure if "battle" is the right word, but I'm constantly checking up on myself, making sure I'm not too full of it. Hmmm, maybe "constantly" isn't the right word. Maybe it is just from time to time. I am pretty sure that I should be doing it constantly though, because a lot of times I do decide that I am pretty much full of it. Everytime I get too comfortable with myself, it seems like I am in for a course correction.
2006-09-23 22:36:34 · answer #8 · answered by anabasisx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am at peace most of the time. Although I am very far from being perfect, I make lots of idiotic misteakes, and I constantly think about how other people are better chritians then me, well guess what? There's no such thing as a 'better christian'. If you try your best and realize what you do is wrong, well, that is all that God askes of you.
2006-09-23 22:33:14 · answer #9 · answered by Jessica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm at peace with myself. I make a conscious choice not to do things that will trouble my conscience. And if something does bother me I resolve it.
2006-09-23 22:34:48 · answer #10 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋