tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757790087474609097.post5665626716257132747..comments2023-10-15T10:56:10.638+01:00Comments on Sheffield Quakers: Standing on our HeadsGordon Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06021696929176035226noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757790087474609097.post-89761501810088010962010-11-29T13:19:51.209+00:002010-11-29T13:19:51.209+00:00This is great stuff, Gordon and Ray's comment ...This is great stuff, Gordon and Ray's comment adds to it. Would that we could take this journey from the head to the heart. Trust our deepest feelings more than the notions in our heads. <br />Our intellects and Science do not teach us moral values just whether something is true or false at a thinking level!<br />It is our emotions that ultimately teach us the rightness or wrongness of our actions and the values that we live by.Maurice Bartleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04030091671156518985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757790087474609097.post-39060926644627719142010-11-23T21:34:46.198+00:002010-11-23T21:34:46.198+00:00I've been reading a passage from Kathryn Shulz...I've been reading a passage from Kathryn Shulz's "Being wrong - adventures in the margin of error", in which she questions the notion that we can "think for ourselves".<br /><br />"... bluntly put, we can't. Everyone of us is profoundly dependent on other people's minds - so profoundly that if we took seriously the charge to think for ourselves, we would have to relinquish our faith in the vast majority of things we think we know. in his "Confessions" Augustine wrote that -<br /><br /><i>"I began to realise that I believed countless things which I had never seen or which had taken place where I was not there to see - so many events in the history of the world, so many facts about places and towns which I had never seen, so much that I believed on the word of friends or doctors or various other people. Unless we took these things on trust, we should accomplish absolutely nothing in this life."</i><br /><br />And this was well before the industrial revolution... and the coming of the information highway.. and Google.<br /><br />Which leads one to ponder where we put our ultimate trust (faith)...?Ray Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14054915941975951028noreply@blogger.com