"I'm waiting for a mission - getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker. And every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger." - Captain Benjamin Willard (from Apocalypse Now)
i love this quote. it reminds me that the difficulty, advesity and harshness of our environment...molds us. it makes us more adaptable, more capable.
that is of course if we navigate through the adversity rather than avoid it. running away can only make us weaker. like a soft spot on a tooth that the brush never touches. weaker and weaker and weaker until it breaks open, revealing the stench and decay of such avoidance.
it is also providing the difficulty or harshness doesnt kill us. however, even if it does kill the body perhaps the possibility exists, i believe it does, that the soul may be strengthened by it still.
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Simple "survival of the fittest" in action. Classic Darwinism!
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."
James 1:2-4
The book of James predates Darwinian theory by about 1800 years.
But the ACTUAL reality of species evolving is millions and millions of years old. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
aufgeblassen, unlike my post and the verbiage of james, darwin never advocated that individuals should persevere through adversity to make themselves stronger.
Could be, but often one doesn't have a choice, because nature controls us, rather than the other way around. We are at the mercy of Mother Nature.
"Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,..." 1 Timothy 1:9
The reality of God's plan for mankind predated even the world itself.
I believe that even "Murphy's Law" is more powerful than "God".
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