I find Eckhart Tolle's comment that "there is no fulfillment in the future" extremely clarifying how I used hope and faith like a gambler that someday my cravings would end. I find your term "predictive" equally clarifying and de-traumatizing- as a gentle nudge of will far more pleasant than wrestling with hope and faith. Why they call these things virtues stymies me.
I find Eckhart Tolle's comment that "there is no fulfillment in the future" extremely clarifying how I used hope and faith like a gambler that someday my cravings would end. I find your term "predictive" equally clarifying and de-traumatizing- as a gentle nudge of will far more pleasant than wrestling with hope and faith. Why they call these things virtues stymies me.