thinking about things and reading up on my churchs teachings, I came across an intriguing concept written up by a church-shrink. he said that family life is full of surprises, and that therefore we must cultivate the capacity to practice asceticism, especially regarding our expectations. even though i know that ascetics has fundamentally to do with self-discipline, self-control and a paring away of nonessentials, still, I felt i had to look that up Philosophical view[edit] In the third essay (What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean?) from his book On the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche discusses what he terms the ascetic ideal and its role in the formulation of morality along with the history of the will. In the essay, Nietzsche describes how such a paradoxical action as asceticism might serve the interests of life: through asceticism one can overcome their desire to perish from pain and despair and attain mastery over oneself. In this way one can express both ressentiment and the will to power. Nietzsche describes the morality of the ascetic priest as characterized by Christianity as one where, finding oneself in pain or despair and desiring to perish from it, the will to live causes one to place oneself in a state of hibernation and denial of the material world in order to minimize that pain and thus preserve life,[33] a technique which Nietzsche locates at the very origin of secular science as well as of religion. He associated the ascetic ideal with Christian decadence.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism
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