This from Pastor John Pavlovitz: If there’s a hell, it will be for professed Christians who pretended to care about “life” while making this place a living hell for so much of it. I disagree, and I have to say …
Tag: Bertrand Russell
Stay Away from Snap Judgements
I sometimes find myself making snap judgements about people based simply on their appearance, and I don’t like that about myself. The guy in the picture here, however, simply exudes certain characteristics that anyone could spot. I’m thinking: • Adores the …
Let’s Admit How Little We Know
Please check out the “DK” curve at left. From Bertrand Russell: The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Love Is Wise; Hatred Is Foolish
If we had to name the most intelligent person who ever walked this planet, mathematician, logician, philosopher and social critic Bertrand Russell would be within the top five of our list. Here’s a video of an interview he gave to …
Certainty Isn’t Necessarily a Good Thing
It’s the birthday of F. Scott Fitzgerald who said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” This, in turn, …
A Chilling Lesson From Two of History’s Most Important Philosophers
It’s the birthday of the father of modern philosophy, Rene’ Descartes, who began his professional life as a prominent mathematician and scientist in 17th Century France. His much better-known explorations into philosophy came as an accident, when he realized that doubt …
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These Quotes Are Especially Relevant Today
I love this. And here’s another way of saying the same thing from one of my heroes, Bertrand Russell: The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so …
Neither You Nor I Know What the Future of the Energy Industry Looks Like
Don’t we all chuckle to ourselves when we hear people explain what the energy industry is going to be like in the year 2100? Our world changes so fast today—and that rate of change is only accelerating—that it makes very …
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