I have very mixed feelings about how people become well-known by confidently asserting something, later completely renounce that something, but benefit a ton from the fame or influence they got from asserting it.
On the one hand, changing your mind is good, nobody ever knows anything for certain, sharing can lead to re-thinking, etc
On the other hand, it would be nice if people spent more time testing a belief before convincing other people to hold it?
I've changed my mind on a lot of stuff over the years, and I think if I'd confidently promoted earlier beliefs I would intellectually regret it -- in whatever tiny way, I would have negatively influenced people who read me. But on a purely personal level I think I'd be better off
Maybe we need to radically revise the conditions we must satisfy before even bringing ideas to public appeal.
Well I'm confident your post was talking about this video: https://youtu.be/YO9ZY5V461c
Please give me fame.
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Nope, you were talking about something else.
Thanks for the sats!
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my Spanish prof once taught us the phrase "nunca digas de este agua no beberé, ni este cura no es mi padre" -- "never say you won't drink from that water, or that the priest is not your dad." And we all kinda laughed, like "when will I ever need to say THAT?", and now I always do
there's a type of thought that's... partly-analytical, partly-emotional observations about the human experience, that I've never known a name for and struggled to find in academia or popular non-fiction. Emotions or social experiences, as a subject matter in and of themselves? But not in the social science way, just... individuals observing their experiences of those things and treating them analytically but with emotional awareness?
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The bible literally says that faith is "the assured expectation of things hoped for"
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