#belief — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #belief, aggregated by home.social.
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A quotation from Margaret Mead
The children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Coming of Age in Samoa, ch. 14 (1928)More about this quote: wist.info/mead-margaret/85496/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #margaretmead #belief #education #orthodoxy #problemsolving #solutions #teaching #thinking #thought
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Why does apologetics matter today? It's about engaging faith with reason and addressing doubts with grace. How do you bridge belief and inquiry in your life?
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
-- Bertrand Russell⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BertrandRussell #Belief #Error
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
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It was also believed [in barbarous times] that certain things must be accepted as true, no matter whether they were reasonable or not; that it was pleasing to God to believe a certain creed, especially if it happened to be the creed of the majority.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #belief #beliefsystem #creed #culture #dogma #majority #reasonability #society #tradition #truth #tyrannyofthemajority #unreasonability
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“To be the place the falling angel meets the rising ape”
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Why cannot we remember all the contradictions which we feel within our own judgement, and how many things which were articles of belief for us yesterday are fables for us today?
[Que ne nous souvient il combien nous sentons de contradiction en nostre jugement mesmes ? combien de choses nous servoient hyer d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 26 (1.26), “It Is Folly to Measure the True and the False by Our Own Capacity [C’est folie de rapporter le vray et le faux à nostre suffisance]” (1572) [tr. Screech (1987), 1.27]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #belief #changeofheart #changeofmind #error #judgment #misjudgment #opinion #selfawareness
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Exploring the evidence and experiences that point toward the existence of God invites deep reflection and meaningful conversations.
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of Man?
HOBBES: I’m not sure Man needs the help.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-04-06)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/85386…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adversary #belief #corruption #devil #humancondition #humannature #humanity #lucifer #Satan #selfdestructiveness #temptation
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The absence of details (eg, skin blemishes, readable fine-print text, etc) in most dreams means you're looking at an idealised image of what the brain expects or wants to see, without it being checked against sensory input.
#sleep #dreams #psychology #neuroscience #idealism #fantasy #solipsism #brain #sensation #hallucination #emotion #salience #belief
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
“I don’t hold with paddlin’ with the occult,” said Granny firmly. “Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods. And then you’re in trouble.”
“But all them things exist,” said Nanny Ogg.
“That’s no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages ’em.”Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 14, Lords and Ladies (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8535…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #lordsandladies #grannyweatherwax #nannyogg #belief #demons #existence #faith #gods #occult #spirits #spirituality #religion
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“In a free society you can criticise any country or ideology. You can criticise capitalism, communism, socialism, imperialism, or any other -ism. You can argue that whatever ideology you dislike has no place in society. You can say that an ideology is racist or dangerous. People can and do say that all the time and they never get sacked… unless they do it about Zionism.
By the same token you can criticise the US, Europe, Russia, China or whatever place you think is causing massive problems for the world. But every journalist knows they mustn’t speak too harshly of Israel, even when it’s committing genocide. The fact that it’s so difficult to criticise Israel compared to any other country proves Miller was right. Zionism is the problem”
quoting Ricky from Council Estate Media on Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/anti-zionism-is-now-a-protected-belief
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Miller #EmploymentTribunal #Zionism #AntiZionism #Protected #Belief #Law
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Sven Ove Hansson has revised his SEP-entry on the Logic of Belief Revision, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-belief-revision/
#sep #belief #knowledge #tieto #epistemology #logic #philosophy #filosofia #reasoning #agm #learning #bayesian
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
ERR, v.i. To believe or act in a way contrary to my beliefs and actions.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Err,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-05-24)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/85250…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #arrogance #belief #disagreement #ego #error #perspective #presumption #rightandwrong #selfrighteousness
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #selfreliance #belief #conformity #custom #greatness #independence #integrity #nonconformity #opinion #popularopinion #publicopinion #society #solitude #tradition #unswaying
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
-- John Burroughs⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnBurroughs #Belief
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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BREAKING:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAUSES ORGANIC HYSTERIA 💎AI presses several #old human fear buttons at once.
It threatens work, status, expertise, authorship, privacy, and the comforting #belief that intelligence belongs especially to human beings.
AI also arrives through enormous companies people already distrust, so the fears are not entirely irrational.
Then there is the fear of losing #control
Most people understand a hammer.
AI is also a #tool, but it is harder to see into. It changes quickly, sometimes gets things wrong with amazing confidence, and can sound far more capable than it really is.
That uncertainty invites #projection
But AI also exposes something uncomfortable.
Much of human #activity was already formulaic.
Even parts of #journalism and professional #commentary .
When a machine can imitate these things, people are forced to ask how original they were in the first place.
The sensible position is neither to worship AI nor panic about it.
AI is a powerful human-made tool operating inside imperfect systems.
It can help.
It can deceive.
It can save time.
It can waste resources.
It can widen access.
It can concentrate power.
It can produce brilliance and slop, often in the same hour.
The question is not whether it is pure.
Nothing in this world is.
The question is whether it can be used consciously, critically, and without surrendering human judgement.
A tool becomes dangerous when it is mistaken for an authority.
It also becomes dangerous when fear prevents us from understanding it properly.
#human #ORGANIC #HYSTERIA #fear #hammer #privacy #resources #machine #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
You Learn by Living, Foreword (1960)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/33…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #actions #belief #choices #living #personalresponsibility #philosophy #responsibility #takeresponsibility #uncertainty #wordsanddeeds
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GalileoGalilei #Belief #God
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time; the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against a solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-03-22), “In Front of Your Nose,” “As I Please” column, Tribune NewspaperMore about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/29647/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #belief #cognitivedissonance #confirmationbias #facefacts #facereality #facingfacts #honesty #intellectualhonesty #realitycheck #selectivememory #selfdeceit #selfdelusion #truth #unreliablenarrator
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Tell Me More YO! Belief! #tellmemoreyo #tellmemore #belief #questioneverything #Philosophy
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“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” Martin Luther
What if today we replaced just one worry with one hope?
We may not have all the answers, but hope reminds us that possibilities still exist.
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#hope #belief #SelfCompassion
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The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence can live only as long as they are enshrined in our hearts and minds. If they are not so enshrined, they would be no better than mummies in their glass cases, and they could in time become idols whose worship would be a grim mockery of the true faith. Only as these documents are reflected in the thoughts and acts of Americans can they remain symbols of a power that can move the world.
Harry S Truman (1884-1972) US President (1945-1953)
Speech (1952-12-15), National ArchivesMore about this quote: wist.info/truman-harry-s/63640…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #truman #harrytruman #America #belief #Constitution #DeclarationofIndependence #idolatry #meaning #moralcode #patriotism #values
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Mystery and play and the suspension of belief, for a moment while flying home from a Phoenix conference on November 11, 2005
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From a scientific perspective, probably the main problem with religious people is they usually take their traditions at face value. They rarely know the identities, social contexts, or motives of scriptures' authors, or the historical layers of texts presented as unified texts or collections.
#science #religion #tradition #author #authorship #attribution #identity #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith #blindfaith #belief