benefit_of_the_doubt_addiction stork daddy because novelty's a drug 040304 ... zeke doubt is the engine of inspiration when intuition fails. doubt frames questions that force assumptions to unmask. doubt creates equality among hypotheses and allows consideration of discarded, forgotten or ignored ideas. doubt is a constructive tool that democratizes the process of learning. doubt is an old and trusted friend. 040305 ... zeke doubt is the engine of inspiration when intuition fails. doubt frames questions that force assumptions to unmask. doubt creates equality among hypotheses and allows consideration of discarded, forgotten or ignored ideas. doubt is a constructive tool that democratizes the process of learning. doubt is an old and trusted friend. 040305 ... oldephebe brilliant *rises to feet, claps loudly and then sits down, embarassed, hikes up pants, adjust tie and resumes..* seriously though brilliant 040714 ... minnesota_chris i see the best in others, even when there is no best to see 040714 ... z thank you 040714 ... kookaburra wow zeke. that was too gorgeous for words, so why am i talking? *rises and claps and doesnt stop clapping* would you mind if i wrote this in my journal, to ponder all the time? 040714 ... z no. please do. i am flattered. 040714 ... andru235 i doubt you are right about that. doh! i guess that means you *are* right. which means you aren't right. thus, you are correct. no wait, incorrect. i mean, aye. no no - nay. oh, ooof. shhh! argh! grrr. i doubt that i'll feel any certainty about the value of doubt anytime soon. but i don't doubt that you are on to something... 051103 ... Alfred Korzybsky "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything and to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." 060511 ... sab odd how such a terminally optimistic girl can harbour such nasty doubts about things. 060511 ... Christ without the cross i don't think i am seeing any benefit but okay. i think doubt is important. it helps you to unmask the truth. but truth is a funny thing. truth could be anything. truth could be everything. and what then, should you doubt. You doubt that there is a God. You doubt that love exists. then you come to a point that you doubt existance. Does your doubts make my hand less real or does it make it less real for you? Does doubt make anything less true or does it make it false for you. I doubt that addiction to doubt has a benefit but does that make it NOT have benefits. Maybe. Maybe not. it all come done to choice. Whether you choose to believe or you don't. Whether you have faith or you doubt. its all choice. It doesn't make anything disappear from existance it just moves you to a place where you cannot see it. So doubt. It will never prove or disprove anything. it will not make the things i say false or the things you say true. Its all perspective. its all a matter of choice. 061019 ... () ( conversely, credence neither proves or disproves anything either. as i wrote above: "doubt frames questions that force assumptions to unmask". for me, doubt does not begin with belief, though it sometimes allows it to occur. ) 061019 ... hsg duh out of assumptions 101029 ... ergo my faith is in doubt 101029 ... h o Zeke that was excellentruly. I wish I had read it (5) years earlier! 150201 ... h Something I forGot And "h o" is a typo. Actually I accidentally phumbled_this_phancy_phucking_phone in my hands and caught it by the button_of_irreversible_blather_cuneiform 150201 ... oh yeah I|m|e Hmm it appears I did read it. Maybe im more smarter now than_then the world_may_never_know 150201 ... (z) (thank you. i still enjoy this one too.) 150201 what's it to you? who go blather from