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m1469

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What is the purpose of patience?

on: August 15, 2013, 07:27:30 PM

And what do you think patience means?

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Re: What is the purpose of patience?

Reply #1 on: August 15, 2013, 07:30:19 PM

I have none and never will have.

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Re: What is the purpose of patience?

Reply #2 on: August 15, 2013, 07:35:28 PM

Quote from: m1469 on August 15, 2013, 07:27:30 PM

And what do you think patience means?

A patient is usually someone who suffers. So you could say that patience is suffering (experiencing something negative) but with the hope of something positive. So the purpose must be to wait for the positive, without forcing events.

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Re: What is the purpose of patience?

Reply #3 on: August 15, 2013, 09:26:59 PM

I will tell you tomorrow.

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Re: What is the purpose of patience?

Reply #4 on: August 15, 2013, 10:53:34 PM

I'm going back about 50 years or so here but I recall my mother speaking of it as a matter of virtue more so than having a given purpose.

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Re: What is the purpose of patience?

Reply #5 on: August 16, 2013, 12:04:46 AM

Patience means one does not waste the time before something happens fretting that it has not yet done so.

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Re: What is the purpose of patience?

Reply #6 on: August 16, 2013, 12:49:39 AM

Haha. Might have something to do with threads like this?

What is the purpose of the patience for threads that ask "what is the purpose/meaning of..." Hmmmm? Haha.

Hmm... The purpose of patience is the ability to wait, for things to be better/improved in the future.

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Re: What is the purpose of patience?

Reply #7 on: August 16, 2013, 12:51:00 AM

There. Because you get stuff if you're patient. That's why.

https://suite101.com/article/the-purpose-of-patience-a404636

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