Posted by:
schrodingerscat
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Date: September 18, 2021 03:28PM
Let's face it, Mormonism fulfilled certain deficiency needs for us on the hierarchy of needs, love, belonging, emotional needs, safety in numbers, and even sometimes, physiological needs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Expanded_Maslow%27s_Needs.webpBut at what cost? How about the 'growth needs' like cognitive needs, aesthetic needs, meaning, self actualization and transcendence of self, Were those needs ever fulfilled by your faith in Mormonism?
I don't think they really were for me. Finding authentic meaning was thwarted by placing my faith in a fairy tale that turned out to be bogus, rather than placing my faith in things that really give my life meaning and purpose, like evolution, science and developing skills and talents. The CULT isn't concerned with talent, cognitive or aesthetic needs. It could care less about self actualization or transcendence of self. There's about zero reward within MORmONism for pursuing those growth needs.
By focusing on our uniquely American, God given right to the pursuit of "Happiness", does that result in a false deficiency mentality?
As if there's not enough happiness to go around, so we have to always pursue it, rather than just realizing we were born happy and all we have to do is quit expecting anything more and we'll be happy.