faith, belief, truth and reality, how to?

Francis king said:
lol- he would say... Arise, Oh Prtha, chastiser of the enemy, do not let this cowardice overcome you...
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But the reply might come:

Oh killer of Madhu, how can I counterattack with arrows in battle personalities like Bhisma and Drona who are worthy of my worship?
 
I recently read that the lesson of the fight between Romulus and Remus was that fighting for one's country was more honorable than fighting for one's family.

Just supplying an alternate meme. One needn't agree, but it served Rome well for over a thousand years.
 
juantoo3 said:
:D This is another one of those "ask 6 rabbis" questions...

I used to have similar quandaries bouncing around the inside of my mind.

I can't say for certain, but when I stopped trying to make G-d be what I wanted Him to be a lot of that stopped.

I think too, that a lot of what we are faced with in this existance is trial, is seeing how we will react and respond to adversity. Heaven is earned. The work isn't difficult but it is consistent. As I write this I am mentally kicking myself in the pants for my own failings...
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At the moment my favorite school of thought is this
What is the Absurd? It is, as may quite easily be seen, that I, a rational being, must act in a case where my reason, my powers of reflection, tell me: you can just as well do the one thing as the other, that is to say where my reason and reflection say: you cannot act and yet here is where I have to act... The Absurd, or to act by virtue of the absurd, is to act upon faith ... I must act, but reflection has closed the road so I take one of the possibilities and say: This is what I do, I cannot do otherwise because I am brought to a standstill by my powers of reflection.[4]
– Kierkegaard, Søren, Journals, 1849​

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