Thinking Rationally Is Often Different From "positive

Religious Fanaticism Has Clearly Produced, And In All Probability Will Continue To Produce, Enormous Amounts Of Bickering, Fighting, Violence, Bloodshed, Homicide, Feuds, Wars, And Genocide.

In A Sense, The Religious Person Must Have No Real Views Of His Own And It Is Presumptuous Of Him, In Fact, To Have Any. In Regard To Sex-love Affairs, To Marriage And Family Relations, To Business, To Politics, And To Virtually Everything Else That Is Important In His Life, He Must Try To Discover What His God And His Clergy Would Like Him To Do; And He Must Primarily Do Their Bidding.

Thinking Rationally Is Often Different From "positive Thinking," In That It Is A Realistic Assessment Of The Situation, With A View Towards Rectifying The Problem If Possible.

Life Is Indeed Difficult, Partly Because Of The Real Difficulties We Must Overcome In Order To Survive, And Partly Because Of Our Own Innate Desire To Always Do Better, To Overcome New Challenges, To Self-actualize. Happiness Is Experienced Largely In Striving Towards A Goal, Not In Having Attained Things, Because Our Nature Is Always To Want To Go On To The Next Endeavor.

In Fact Most Of What We Call Anxiety Is Overconcern About What Someone Thinks Of You.