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To: kosta50
I know what you mean, and the most of the time you describe or choices and actions. But there are, the really hard choices, and there is no feel good at all, not in the doing, not in the result, nothing feel good about it.

unless there is a shiny beacon of "feels good" as a reward … there would be no point in going though suffering and pain.

Sometimes the only point is it's the right thing. The only point. Maybe we're different, but we're both old enough… I remember past and recent, thankfully only a very few, nothing felt or feels good about it.

Hate to switch points here, but logically even if there is a feel good for doing what's "right," whether we choose what's right because it feels good or whether it feels good because it's right solely depends on how you look at it, whatever prejudice (in the larger sense) or worldview you have.

349 posted on 04/29/2010 10:59:47 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
But there are, the really hard choices, and there is no feel good at all, not in the doing, not in the result, nothing feel good about it

Give me an example. I think in that case we are forced to make the choice, but if it were up to our own devices we would not.

I am thinking of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night he was arrested. He submits to the will of the Father, but that's not his will. It's not his choice.

whether we choose what's right because it feels good or whether it feels good because it's right solely depends on how you look at it, whatever prejudice (in the larger sense) or worldview you have.

Well, yes, I agree.

350 posted on 04/29/2010 11:23:57 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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