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Question: What's a good philosophy to adopt during a Great Economic Depression!?
If the world economy colapses then we will need to know how to handle it emotionally!.

Does anyone have a suggestion of a particular philosopher or philosophers to study and what reads do you recommend!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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In order to solve a problem you must first identify the problem!.

Note: Urantia an ancient name for Earth!.

Modern secularism has been fostered by two world-wide influences!. The father of secularism was the narrow-minded and godless attitude of nineteenth- and twentieth-century so-called science--atheistic science!. The mother of modern secularism was the totalitarian medieval Christian church!. Secularism had its inception as a rising protest against the almost complete domination of Western civilization by the institutionalized Christian church!.
It required a great power, a mighty influence, to free the thinking and living of the Western peoples from the withering grasp of a totalitarian ecclesiastical domination!. Secularism did break the bonds of church control, and now in turn it threatens to establish a new and godless type of mastery over the hearts and minds of modern man!. The tyrannical and dictatorial political state is the direct offspring of scientific materialism and philosophic secularism!. Secularism no sooner frees man from the domination of the institutionalized church than it sells him into slavish bondage to the totalitarian state!. Secularism frees man from ecclesiastical slavery only to betray him into the tyranny of political and economic slavery!.
Materialism denies God, secularism simply ignores him; at least that was the earlier attitude!. More recently, secularism has assumed a more militant attitude, assuming to take the place of the religion whose totalitarian bondage it onetime resisted!. Twentieth-century secularism tends to affirm that man does not need God!. But beware! this godless philosophy of human society will lead only to unrest, animosity, unhappiness, war, and world-wide disaster!.
Secularism can never bring peace to mankind!. Nothing can take the place of God in human society!. But mark you well! do not be quick to surrender the beneficent gains of the secular revolt from ecclesiastical totalitarianism!. Western civilization today enjoys many liberties and satisfactions as a result of the secular revolt!. The great mistake of secularism was this: In revolting against the almost total control of life by religious authority, and after attaining the liberation from such ecclesiastical tyranny, the secularists went on to institute a revolt against God himself, sometimes tacitly and sometimes openly!.
But secularism is not the sole parent of all these recent gains in the enlargement of living!. Behind the gains of the twentieth century are not only science and secularism but also the unrecognized and unacknowledged spiritual workings of the life and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth!.
Without God, without religion, scientific secularism can never co-ordinate its forces, harmonize its divergent and rivalrous interests, races, and nationalisms!. This secularistic human society, notwithstanding its unparalleled materialistic achievement, is slowly disintegrating!. The chief cohesive force resisting this disintegration of antagonism is nationalism!. And nationalism is the chief barrier to world peace!.
The inherent weakness of secularism is that it discards ethics and religion for politics and power!. You simply cannot establish the brotherhood of men while ignoring or denying the fatherhood of God!.
The complete secularization of science, education, industry, and society can lead only to disaster!. During the first third of the twentieth century Urantians killed more human beings than were killed during the whole of the Christian dispensation up to that time!. And this is only the beginning of the dire harvest of materialism and secularism; still more terrible destruction is yet to come!.
But paganized and socialized Christianity stands in need of new contact with the uncompromised teachings of Jesus; it languishes for lack of a new vision of the Master's life on earth!. A new and fuller revelation of the religion of Jesus is destined to conquer an empire of materialistic secularism and to overthrow a world sway of mechanistic naturalism!. Urantia is now quivering on the very brink of one of its most amazing and enthralling epochs of social readjustment, moral quickening, and spiritual enlightenment!.
The teachings of Jesus, even though greatly modified, survived the mystery cults of their birthtime, the ignorance and superstition of the dark ages, and are even now slowly triumphing over the materialism, mechanism, and secularism of the twentieth century!. And such times of great testing and threatened defeat are always times of great revelation!.

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Hello
Sorry im Mexican and not speak inglish O:K
but my philosophy during a great Economic Depresion is that
only our father God of sky have respond to time yes
look at in the biblia , holy Scriptures leter to Tito cap!. 1 : 1, 2
and apocalipsis cap!. 21 : 3, 4
and Luke cap!.25 - 32 in our time
? do you write me to: horacio!.corona @ hotmail!.com
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Stoicism!. "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond our will!." That quote from Epictetus expresses the essence of it!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

They used to say this little verse:

Eat it up!.
Wear it out!.
Make it do,
or do without!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Guns and ButterWww@QuestionHome@Com