This is helpful work. It is compatible with the Buddhist teaching of not clinging to things. It’s healthy to clean out our lives.
While I never followed his work, Daniel Dennett was an influential philosopher who posed this question towards the end of his life, “What if I was wrong?” That is a question that resonates with me.
That is a good food for thought right there. A question we must all ask ourselves as thinkers is: “what if we are wrong?” I believe it keeps us meek and moving in our evolution as human beings. I have recently embarked on a journey of “challenging my desires (and beliefs) and realized that the more we question our routines, the more we grow and learn that we are almost never right; instead we are obsessed and overcome with the idea of being so. Thank you for sharing your thought.
Unpopular opinion: One of your Never Challenged Beliefs is that it is a fair choice to eat animals, dairy products and eggs. (And by "you", I mean the person reading this.)
I want to respect the desire to have an unpolitical Substack, and I don't need any answers to this. But I AM convinced that most people make this daily decision out of habit, not out of an informed and actively formed opinion. I don't judge anyone for having old beliefs though. Everyone does.
This is helpful work. It is compatible with the Buddhist teaching of not clinging to things. It’s healthy to clean out our lives.
While I never followed his work, Daniel Dennett was an influential philosopher who posed this question towards the end of his life, “What if I was wrong?” That is a question that resonates with me.
That is a good food for thought right there. A question we must all ask ourselves as thinkers is: “what if we are wrong?” I believe it keeps us meek and moving in our evolution as human beings. I have recently embarked on a journey of “challenging my desires (and beliefs) and realized that the more we question our routines, the more we grow and learn that we are almost never right; instead we are obsessed and overcome with the idea of being so. Thank you for sharing your thought.
Unpopular opinion: One of your Never Challenged Beliefs is that it is a fair choice to eat animals, dairy products and eggs. (And by "you", I mean the person reading this.)
I want to respect the desire to have an unpolitical Substack, and I don't need any answers to this. But I AM convinced that most people make this daily decision out of habit, not out of an informed and actively formed opinion. I don't judge anyone for having old beliefs though. Everyone does.
Wishing you a nice day. :)
I like this analyses. Quite often beliefs are fed by habits or historic/ cultural habitual believes.