A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Positive,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

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The #Film #Heretic Reveals the Dark Side of #Religion vs #Secularism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUSXrGEVl14

You’re faced with a terrifying question: #belief or #disbelief? This video dives deep into the provocative #movie Heretic, exploring the existential choice between #religious belief and #nihilism. What happens when religion isn't true but still fulfills human needs for meaning, community, and purpose?

Are You A #Proverbs31 #Woman?

#Belief It Or Not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lgJy4eomyQ

I've been speaking out about the #FirstAmendment with regards to #FreeSpeech, #Belief, #Assembly, #Petition, and the #Press. But, it's now clear that we're seeing severe threats to international #HumanRights, like #FreedomOfMovement.
#Travel #NonCitizen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/know-your-rights-protesting-and-traveling-in-the-us-as-a-noncitizen/

I've been speaking out about the #FirstAmendment with regards to #FreeSpeech, #Belief, #Assembly, #Petition, and the #Press. But, it's now clear that we're seeing severe threats to international #HumanRights, like #FreedomOfMovement.
#Travel #NonCitizen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/know-your-rights-protesting-and-traveling-in-the-us-as-a-noncitizen/

I can think of all sorts of things I'd like to be real even though I have no evidence that they are real. Are irrational beliefs always bad, and are some worse than others?

#atheism #belief #religion #skepticism

https://medium.com/@atheistrevolution/when-does-the-irrational-belief-become-harmful-1883e782a633?sk=489c63afd6dbaf5cd65fddddd5a904b9

From the Hollow #Chocolate #Egg, the Poobah says: “Only the #marzipan of true #belief can silence the honking of #invisible #rabbits chasing the sacred #omelette of forgotten #Mondays.”

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Whoever has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago

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The Problem With #ChurchHurt | #Belief It Or Not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szbz4fyT5MM

Why does the phrase "#church hurt" seem so off?

A quotation from Addison

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243

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The Myth of Human Supremacy

"So where do we begin? We begin by questioning the unquestioned beliefs that are the real authorities of this culture, and then we move out from there. And once you’ve begun that questioning, my job is done, because once those questions start they never stop. From that point on, what you do is up to you."

https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/habitat-loss/derrick-jensen-the-myth-of-human-supremacy/

I've made a six minute video essay unpacking Robert Paxton's nine "mobilizing passions" of fascism, showing applicable examples with Trump in all cases. This is taken from his excellent book, THE ANATOMY OF FASCISM. These "passions" constitute irrational beliefs that autocrats use to control the population.

https://youtu.be/xD4dbZad_p4?si=3u1E-R5Jiv_wYSel

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)

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#alanwatts #zen #tao #faith #belief
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