#credulity

[tomoleary]

Lilian Hocknell (1891-1977) "Caution" & "Credulity" Source

[esmailingkmaria0wu]

Quisiera quedarme contigo hoy... pues en mi mundo cruel tu eres la diferencia

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"God gave birds wings, but he didn't forbid them from flying. He blessed cheetahs with speed, but he never forbad them from outrunning their prey. He did, however, give humans a brain and insisted that they not use it."

Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

2 Corinthians 10:5

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ

[civanticism]

Credulity isn't widespread due to a lack of skepticism. It's because skepticism is misapplied by most people. We should be skeptical of ideas, especially farfetched ones, that aren't supported by good evidence. Instead, most people are only skeptical of ideas that aren't supported by their beliefs.

[macrolit]

Nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know.

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist

[defleftist]

I recognize that I get irrationally angry about astrology because it’s pseudoscientific nonsense that promotes general credulity and anti scientific thought and no, I won’t stop being angry about it.

[apesoformythoughts]

“It is a curious irony that such a modern man thinks that people in the Middle Ages believed anything they were told. For in truth he only thinks it because he himself believes anything he is told about the Middle Ages.”

— G.K. Chesterton

[lifeinpoetry]

I would like to know how to live with nothing. Not memory. Nor the taste of the words I have willed you whisper into my mouth.

— Tracy K. Smith, from “Credulity,” The Body's Question