I'd think a person would be miserable without them, yet having them can cause misery also.
Is it possible to completely do away with this feelings and still live a decent life?
2007-10-14 09:13:54 · 22 answers · asked by Sean 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's possible.
If you don't get your hopes up, then you aren't let down as much, this mostly has to do with being realistic. It is dangerous to expect something if there is a chance it might not happen. You wouldn't want to set yourself up like that.
As far as hope and faith, I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but I think you mean faith in a higher power and hope for a better world.
My personal opinion is that I don't really like to believe in things that no human can prove exists, and that doesn't ever communicate with me.
If I can see proof of something existing, like the sun, it is a lot easier for me to put my faith in it.
As far as hope for a better world, realistically, I base my hopes on what I can control and what I have seen in my lifetime.
I have seen dissapointment, violence, abuse, unfairness, corruption, lies, filth, disease, famine, and mass random desctruction by natural disasters. These events were not selective of age, race, gender, economical status or education. This is reality, and if I put my hopes up that something better from this world will ever come about, I will be dissapointed.
I don't like to be dissapointed, so I don't put my faith in things that I can't prove or control. I don't put my hopes in things better happening because I haven't seen this world get better, I have only seen it get worse.
2007-10-14 09:16:07 · answer #1 · answered by Lord of Chaos 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Force a young child into labor at a young age working 16/7 and you will have a sad, hopeless, faithless child for as long as that happens. When suicide becomes the only hope and faith that suicide will be better than what they are living it can happen. It depends on what you mean by decent life? How the child is forced to live is not decent. What is inside the child may be very decent.
2007-10-14 09:34:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be difficult, if not impossible to live without hope and faith.
We take a leap of faith each time we board an airplane or get on the expressway, I tend to believe that I'll always reach my destination.
I have faith in my family and friends, I have hope for the future that one day mankind will abandon superstition and embrace reason. I have high hopes that compassion will replace apathy in the human species.
Without hope and faith we tend to be defeatist. That kind of attitude isn't motivating, in fact it's counter productive. I have considerable faith in humanity to do the right thing, when it comes right down to it, we are all the we have.
Pantheist
2007-10-14 09:35:47 · answer #3 · answered by Equinoxical ™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think our situations change. During a war there seems to be no hope, but suddenly the war is over and there is hope. It would be hard to live an entire life without some hope. Faith may be different. You can live without faith I suppose.
2007-10-14 09:20:12 · answer #4 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see no problem with wishing and hoping for the best things in life. I think prayer to an Imaginary Deity is not only superstitious but also delusional. And, there is much one can have faith in, to include people. However, this does not include Imaginary Gods.
2007-10-14 09:20:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say hope no everyone needs hope. Religious Faith, yes very possible and easy to do without. Of course there are things I have faith in but not religious.
2007-10-14 09:20:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a great question.
I know that hope hurts. Yet, it seems to be a part of the human psyche, doesn't it?
No matter how many times I have felt hurt and alone, there is still some small part of me that so wants to feel hope.
I keep pushing it back because I fear disappointment.
2007-10-14 09:21:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do people assume you have to be a person of faith to be happy, or that not believing in a supreme being makes your life have no purpose. Their purpose is to live a good, conscientous life on earth to the best of their abilities.
2007-10-14 09:17:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hope for a better day tomorrow.
Hope for a raise at work.
Have faith that one day all your hard work will pay off.
I don't think it is possible. When people loose all hope, all faith in anything/everything in life...I think that's the point where they check themselves out early.
2007-10-14 09:20:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hope comes to those who believed and strive. Accept everything that happened and will happen is the only way out of miseries.
2007-10-14 09:19:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without hope you can't want and without faith you can't believe. Wanting is derived on hoping for something and if you believe its all apart of having faith that you will have what you want. How can one live life without hope and faith.
2007-10-14 09:19:32 · answer #11 · answered by debbiecc01 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋