Posts from This Journal by “belief” Tag

• QotD: Don't Try to Answer Unanswerable Questions

  To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: This skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. — Ursula…

• QotD: If Learning, Not Gloating, Is the Goal

  "A single dot on a canvas is not a painting and a single bet cannot resolve a complex theoretical dispute. This will take many questions and…

• QotD: Western Yoga isn't much like Ancient Hindu Yoga

  “Contemporary Western postural yoga projects an authenticity and unbroken ancient heritage onto the yogic tradition, while mourning the…

• Blazak on the Role of Religion in Hate Crimes in the US

  Randy Blazak is a PhD from Emory University with a specialty in hate crimes. Specifically he studied racist skinheads (he doesn't say just…

• The Problem with Democracy: We are Horny, Greedy and Cruel

  Democracy is based on the belief that people are more good than bad, that we are more curious than controlling, more playful than violent, and more…

• QotD: Uncertain Fanatics

  You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They…

• QotD: What is Possible

  For all of you who aren't sure, it is possible to be gay and Christian. It's also possible to believe in God and science. It is possible…

• Ismania

  From "You Can't Take it With You" (1938) View clip: https://youtu.be/AUzB73j7s3o Transcribed dialog: Why don't you write a play…

• Quotes otD: Atheists on Faith

  I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics…