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Just pray.
Love spoke. At first it whispered, its cursive echoing off the pages. Trembles of sound tickling the eardrum and giving life to the eyes. The crescendo of our united voices overcame me. I let it all go. Every fear, every strife. All worry, all hatred. Go. Leave only peace. And as we sang, we prayed.
Tags: Prayer
When you hear the word faith, what comes to mind? The term is notoriously hard to define. All of my life I was told to believe in God. But I never could understand how to have faith. I saw it as blind action with no rhyme or reason. Like pushing all your poker chips into one big pot, hoping that your cards are better than the other guy’s.
Tags: Faith
Let the tear hit the ground
It’s done now, and there’s no going back
The only way up is kneeling down
Bow before guillotine
In those moments before death
What we call life
We just stare at the ground
Knowing it’s our fate
GroupThink, according to social psychologists, is an unwillingness to venture outside the box. Refusing to consider any idea that brings discomfort to you or your friends. GroupThink keeps group members content, but only for a while. When left unchecked, it leads to stagnation and persistent error. It blinds people to fatal flaws that may ultimately destroy the group.
A second kind of GroupThink, a cousin of the one we just described, is even more insidious. It happens when we dismiss an idea because it came from one of those people. “He’s just a gun-toting right-wing racist conservative nut-job.” “She’s just a tofu-eating left-wing eco-socialist feminazi.” Notice the insertion of the word just to convey dehumanization. The merits of the idea don’t matter. Whether those people even exist doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is the perception that crazies are out there, that they do not deserve to be heard and ought to be marginalized.
Tags: Psychology
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Skepticism, Generic Religion and Those Rich White Men
April 22, 2009 in Commentary by admin | 3 comments
Skepticism is the philosophy that casts doubt on everything. Skeptics may say that all religions are the same. But they do not think that all of them are true. They probably think that none are true. To them, religions are metaphors for some grand, overall truth, but what that truth is, they cannot say. They might say that they believe in God. But to them, God is vague and unknowable. Many skeptics claim to have faith. But their faith has no defined object. They place their faith in faith itself.
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Tags: Modernism, Philosophy