Friday, December 13, 2013

I'm Not Going To Have Faith That Because I Experience Negative Thoughts, There Must Be Something Wrong With Me

I’m not just going to have faith that there is something wrong with me because i experience negative thoughts. Perhaps negative thoughts can be based on reality and don't necessarily mean that there is something wrong with the individual experiencing them.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Dealing With Uncomfortable Truths

Making life more comfortable for myself or others by being dishonest or willfully ignorant is a path that i am not willing to take. If life can't be good without hiding the truth and/or hiding from the truth then that is an indictment against life.

It's Okay To Say "I Might Be Wrong"

What i wish people were more willing to say: “I might be wrong.”

The Magic Turns Out To Be Merely Physical Processes

Our brains have evolved in a way that causes us to have illusions. Some events may appear to be miraculous (e.g., the body healing itself) until the physical processes responsible for the events are understood. An analogy is when a magic trick seems like magic until it's revealed how the trick is performed.