"...the theory, while it can help us interpret the past, should be jettisoned if it keeps us from expecting something hopeful in the future." Great truth claim.
"A bleak forecast can become less bleak if we factor in the mystery of free will and the likelihood that something unexpected can always happen — even something welcome and good."
"...the theory, while it can help us interpret the past, should be jettisoned if it keeps us from expecting something hopeful in the future." Great truth claim.
"A bleak forecast can become less bleak if we factor in the mystery of free will and the likelihood that something unexpected can always happen — even something welcome and good."
I hadn't thought to go from free will to hope, but it's a neat way to say we can't account for all the possibilities, so let's at least be optimists. I tend towards finding more consolation in Shadi's ultimate judgement for the religious, but I like this. It fits nicely in the Faith, Hope, Love trifecta. I mean my hope is in ultimate judgement, but still.
"...the theory, while it can help us interpret the past, should be jettisoned if it keeps us from expecting something hopeful in the future." Great truth claim.
"A bleak forecast can become less bleak if we factor in the mystery of free will and the likelihood that something unexpected can always happen — even something welcome and good."
I hadn't thought to go from free will to hope, but it's a neat way to say we can't account for all the possibilities, so let's at least be optimists. I tend towards finding more consolation in Shadi's ultimate judgement for the religious, but I like this. It fits nicely in the Faith, Hope, Love trifecta. I mean my hope is in ultimate judgement, but still.