"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be.  Be one."

Marcus Aurelius,
Meditations

Reading Marcus Aurelius I came across an idea I liked.  He basically said that every day is just a series of lesson.  There are no true disasters,  there are lessons to learn from, trials to strengthen us.  Not in the way that Lewis meant, there is no god torturing to us to make us "better" by some arbitrary standard.  It is simply that we can ( Read more... )