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Re:Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ev... by MaxBarraclough on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:13PM (#28250858)
Christianity has the same idea too, at least if you count the Serenity Prayer. Probably not an independent discovery though, I imagine its creator (a theologian) took the idea from Greek philosophy.

> God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

> courage to change the things I can,

> and wisdom to know the difference.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer#Genuine_precur...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ev... by salt-thrower on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:19PM (#28250932)
Yes, this is the most stoic/zen prayer that I've ever heard from a Christian context. I like it a lot.

Unfortunately Christianity suffers from excessive moralizing and mythology, which turns me away from it. But it definitely has lines of thought that descended from stoic thinking.

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