#doubt
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
-- Hermann Goering
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HermannGoering #Doubt #Fear #Government #Uncertainty
President Mohamud: Re-election in Doubt as Security and Reforms Take Center Stage #EastAfrica #Somalia #WestAfrica #center #Doubt #Mohamud #President #reelection #reforms #security #stage
https://tinyurl.com/22exer6w
What #SomePeople #ChooseToBelieve...
#SomePeople #Believe in #KanyeWest...
#Coffeezilla #Proves (beyond #AcceptableParameters of #Doubt) that #SomePeople will #Believe in #CrazierShit than #Kanye...
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Testo della canzone “Doubt” di Twenty One Pilots
#TwentyOnePilots #Doubt
https://daletra.online/twenty-one-pilots/testi/doubt.html
@littlehillschurch Hello again @Gustodon. To answer your question, several things could be said. I'll try to take the approach I think might be most helpful to your inquiry, but I'm always happy to have a good exploration of #faith and #doubt and such. I'm starting out with an oversimplified philosophical approach for the bones of conversation.
1.) As philosophers over time have asserted, it is good and reasonable to look for a #FirstCause, etc. I deeply appreciate #ThomasAquinas's Five Ways.
2.) The question then is what sort of "#God" fits the deity of #1. I think only a few of the things/people/entities people have worshipped or do worship could even possibly fit #1. (E.g. Zeus could not, because "he" was not first, etc.)
3.) Of that much reduced set, I believe a mix of historical points speak well of the God of the #Bible. This point could be expanded a lot.
4.) Archetypally, I believe the Bible speaks to things our psyche expects in the most complete way of the available options. C.S. Lewis wrote well on this following, as I do, some of the observations of Carl Jung.
5.) Evidentially, the Bible describes our world's fallen, broken condition in a way that conforms to objective observation. I've often said if I didn't think there was a God, I'd be a Theravada Buddhist. But because I affirm the things above, Christianity speaks to the same sort of "suffering" but with the hope of a solution beyond cessation of existence because of the existence of a personally relatable First Cause.
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That's the rational answer. The personal answer is different, but coherently related. I believe I've encountered the living God and He is the one who has enabled me to believe, not the reverse.
Complete presence and focused attention can lead to an expanded awareness—what some traditions call infinite or eternal awareness. But this can’t be grasped through reason or analysis. It must be experienced directly.
#Zen #Focus #Awareness #Presence #Nonduality #Consciousness #Doubt #SpiritualAwakening #DirectExperience #Mindfulness #Meditation #ClearMind #Concentration #SelfInquiry #Dharma
Inter Milan Leads Parma 2-0 with Thuram's Lucky Goal
#clarification #doubt #humor #sports #video
https://blazetrends.com/inter-milan-leads-parma-2-0-with-thurams-lucky-goal/?fsp_sid=7799
Today's Audio Daily Devotional: Help My Unbelief
Bible Texts
- Hebrews 11:1
- John 20:29
- James 1:6-8
- John 14:1
#devotional #audio #doubt #unbelief #guilt #thoughts #faith #Christianity #prayers #answers #trust #strength #spiritual
Deception, Obfuscation & Misdirection
This is a concatenation of posts I originally made in 2016-2017--even more relevant today...
Most are familiar with the concept of #FUD—short for #Fear, #Uncertainty & #Doubt. It summarizes a strategy often used in marketing and political propaganda. Its effects are pernicious, divisive and lead to exploitation. Examples abound. Fear is a strong motivator! To resist FUD one must understand how it is practiced using the principles of #Deception, #Obfuscation and #Misdirection.
https://mdpaths.com/rrr/commentary/deception_obfuscation_misdirection/index.html
#Lies #Liars #TrumpLies #Trump #Authoritarianism #Media #GeorgeOrwell #HannahArendt #Disinformation
"Buried in the messages between National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other cabinet members is a horrible demonstration of narrative engineering.
"While the legacy media fixates on ‘classified information’, the real story is actually not the incompetence of these people but instead how they casually discussed spinning the bombing of Yemen—an already battered and famine-ravaged nation—into a palatable story for the American and global public. Let’s have a look":
https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/how-to-sell-a-massacre by Deaglan O'Mulrooney 🧶
#storyTelling #counterterrorism #victimBlaming #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #professionalism #Signal #postFactual #bias #news #media #doubt #press #reporting #journalism #war #Yemen #Houthis #warCrimes #allies #PeteHegseth #Hegseth #MikeWaltz #Waltz #OMulrooney #mediaStudy #bombing #narrative
My job would be a lot easier if, rather than critiquing people I disagree with based on their words and actual views, I employed guilt-by-association headlines and wildly uncharitable, speculative assertions about what secretly drives them psychologically.
-- Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ConorFriedersdorf #ConspiracyTheories #Doubt #Fear #Guilt #Uncertainty
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
[Le doute n’est pas une état bien agréable, mais l’assurance est un état ridicule.]
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1770-11-28) to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/voltaire/4016/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #belief #certainty #dogmatism #doubt #faith #truebeliever #truth #uncertainty
@hallunke23 Well... i guess that summarizes my general position in that matter, which might be just be visualized with... .#doubt 🤨