The most widespread evil in the world is rooted in the daily choice to not sincerely care if we're wrong, to refuse to earnestly ask ourselves the hardest questions, & to be willing to face the strongest objections to our cherished conclusions. Hubris is the cancer eating us.
@AuthorTOBurnett I was young, & expected him to somehow not be dead after all. I had the same reaction when Henry died on MASH.
(Is 50 years long enough to not require a Spoiler warning?)
Sweet the sin, bitter the taste in my mouth
I see seven towers, but I only see one way out
You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice
"Our problem is not that we have failed to find an answer to the question of the meaning of life that would satisfy the left hemisphere [...]. Our problem is that we have allowed ourselves to respond to this failure by deriding the question as meaningless."
- McGilchrist
"People hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love more than the truth. They love truth when it shines warmly on them, and hate it when it rebukes them."
-Augustine of Hippo