SCIENCE!

[Maltese]

I really don't know who's leg your trying to pull right now.

please apologize for earlier, that was very rude of you trolling my innocent thread.

[AlbinoClock]

Each human being has individual drives and motivations. We each develop our own sense of what is important and behave accordingly. We interpret and store every experience based on filtering systems that we developed through trial and error. These filtering systems dictate the tone of our entire life and can make any given thing look beautiful, horrible, or unimportant.

Filtering experience through a religious lens changes it entirely. Things take on   otherworldly significance. If you're heavily rooted in a set of goals and understanding of the universe with which you're very familiar and confident, you won't feel nearly as anxious when you make a mistake that isn't related to your own system.

A person who is sure that God is most important thing in life will be rather unconcerned about petty worldly affairs if he feels he's done his duty and is in God's favor. Anxiety in the face of failure is a product of feeling as though you have to be proficient at tasks to have worth. If the task is unimportant to your sense of self-worth, it won't produce anxiety.

Suffering is caused by attachment to transient states of being. Remember?

[RomanClock]

Each human being has individual drives and motivations. We each develop our own sense of what is important and behave accordingly. We interpret and store every experience based on filtering systems that we developed through trial and error. These filtering systems dictate the tone of our entire life and can make any given thing look beautiful, horrible, or unimportant.

Filtering experience through a religious lens changes it entirely. Things take on   otherworldly significance. If you're heavily rooted in a set of goals and understanding of the universe with which you're very familiar and confident, you won't feel nearly as anxious when you make a mistake that isn't related to your own system.

A person who is sure that God is most important thing in life will be rather unconcerned about petty worldly affairs if he feels he's done his duty and is in God's favor. Anxiety in the face of failure is a product of feeling as though you have to be proficient at tasks to have worth. If the task is unimportant to your sense of self-worth, it won't produce anxiety.

Suffering is caused by attachment to transient states of being. Remember?

The best summary of the study in the thread.