Alternate title: Don’t Believe in Yourself I’ve been trying to put together a post on confidence for several weeks now, but it never seemed complete. I think it was because I never identified its opposite: […]
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Category: Religion
My Quantum Life: Using Beliefs to Limit Outcomes
We’ve talked about how morals help us gain certainty about the future. They help us narrow our path and gain clarity. If I look at my life as a set of infinite possible outcomes, how […]
Removing End Points
If you believe that you’ll live another hundred years, that’s one thing. But what if you believe you’ll live forever? Death is only a checkpoint. There is no more urgency of self. I am safe […]
Carl Jung on Faith and Addiction
Optional reading: I Am an Addict, Applying Faith to Addiction, Void Avoidance We’ve applied our concept of faith to addiction. But I’m not important. Carl Jung founded analytical psychology. He did all kinds of important […]
Truth beyond Beauty
Is beauty true? Yes. But it is fleeting. It’s not much more true than the weather. If someone is attractive, most anyone can pick them out of a lineup. It’s a quality that is hard to […]
Absolute Truth
Is true in every reality. Not conditional truth. Like this coffee is good. I look good. I feel good. What is always true? Time is true. Reality is true. The past is true, and always […]
Fearing God
Perfect Love Casts Out All Fear. – 1 John 4:18 How does perfect love cast out all fear? Perfect love would be imagining all realities with God. So if you’re with him now, you’ll be […]
Orienting Your Soul
You can’t love everything: because not everything is good. So when we start to love things that aren’t good, we disorient our souls. If you loved everything equally, why would you care what you did […]
Walk by Faith
Walk by faith and not by sight. – 2 Corinthians 5:7 For shorthand, let’s define sight as imagining future realities. This would mean to continue on your path by your belief based on knowledge and […]
We Must Forgive
Because we are not perfect, we must forgive ourselves. Because those who we love are not perfect, we must forgive them. Why, because when we don’t forgive them, a portion of them starts to fall […]