tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post2644473004257954957..comments2023-11-12T13:22:30.358+01:00Comments on andrewjshields: What is a monster?Andrew Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post-80116136523298269422011-09-02T00:27:45.669+02:002011-09-02T00:27:45.669+02:00Good point.Good point.Dominic Rivronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618013365521035400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post-34509991789082703912011-09-01T10:48:00.594+02:002011-09-01T10:48:00.594+02:00How does one keep from becoming a monster? With kn...How does one keep from becoming a monster? With knowledge, not faith. As Thomas Basbøll put it recently:<br /><br />"Knowledge ... is a belief held in a critical environment. Faith ... is a belief held in an 'evangelical' environment."<br /><br />It's keeping your beliefs open to criticism that keeps them from becoming monstrous.Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post-88029655609219344002011-09-01T10:17:49.939+02:002011-09-01T10:17:49.939+02:00I think as soon as we believe in anything we risk ...I think as soon as we believe in anything we risk turning monstrous. That's not to say we should believe nothing (although I suspect all this touches on why Quakers sit at their meetings saying nothing), just that if we believe something because we feel a need for an "instruction book" to live our lives by then we risk that book coming between us and other human beings and, depending on what it says in the book and how we interpret it, we risk acting in an inhuman way.Dominic Rivronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618013365521035400noreply@blogger.com