#Doubt And Certainty

[philosophybits]

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

#philosophy #quotes #Bertrand Russell #The Problems of Philosophy #knowledge #certainty #doubt #uncertainty #skepticism

[rainbowtransform]

Thinking of doubt and certainty being married….. doubt and certain being opposite ends but holding hands.

#dimension 20 #d20 #Cassandra d20 #fantasy high junior year spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #like #there’s always certainty in doubt #you’re always certain that you’re in doubt #always certain that this thing makes you doubt #certainty and doubt go hand in hand #and you’re certain something can get better in that doubt #chewing on the bars of my cage

[rchetypal]

"To be in doubt is a more normal condition than certainty. To confess that you doubt, to admit that you never know for certain, is the supremely human condition; for to be able to suffer the doubt, to carry the doubt, means that one is able to carry the other side."

— C.G. Jung

#carl jung #psychology #jung #doubt #certainty #human condition #suffer doubt

[dk-thrive]

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know.

— C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Knopf, January 26, 2011) (via Make Believe Boutique)

#C.G. Jung #self aware #self knowledge #certainty #doubt

[muffinlance]

Toddler, pacing the hall when he should be in bed: What's that bad smell? ...Tennessee

#RIP Tennessee I fear you will never recover #from the toddler who can Smell You From Here #he said this like five times in a row #with increasing certainty #so really there can be no doubt #child go to bed #in other news getting him that giant USA puzzle is was absolutely worth it

[quirkle2]

i like him a normal amount and think about him a normal number of times daily

#qkdraws #tw smoking #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 reigen #reigen arataka #do i tag dimple in this ??? #mp100 dimple #sure #was originally gonna settle with the pink tint to all of these but #i wanted to see how a gradient of colors would look #and i didn't think pink would go very well w the smoking one so #is he.............. yaknow #i love him and his cartoony ass outfit . never fucking changes it ever not even once #his closet is All suits. i said so. bc it's hilarious #i know he wears other shit in the show i think but this is funnier #it's rly funny seeing those memes on tumblr of like . ''ur discord pfp and ur tumblr pfp meet !! what happens !!'' #bc my discord pfp is now the reigen on the farthest left. and i can say with certainty the answer will always be reigen cons my tumblr pfp #like without a doubt. no matter who the fuck it is #he would con warriors. and warriors would see it and get conned anyway #i also gave him a roman nose and freckles cuz i FUCKING said so <3

[pratchettquotes]

"Trust me."

"You use that phrase an awful lot, Mr. Lipwig," said Hicks.

"Well, I'm very trustworthy."

Terry Pratchett, Making Money

#moist von lipwig #professor hicks #making money #discworld #terry pratchett #trust #certainty #doubt #repetition #persuasion #you keep using that word #very trustworthy

[pbear]

I wish this had the buildup of Tachihara thinking like a Mafia member while performing his Hunting Dog duties (like in the manga) but we got there! The scene with him, Hirotsu and Gin is one of my favorites. It reveals Tachihara’s true nature as a member of the Mafia. The way Gin and Hirotsu laugh at his question shows that there is no doubt in their mind that Tachihara is part of the Mafia. Then, Tachihara himself sees the same thing. The whole season we’ve been hoping for the Agency to make headway in their attempts to prove their innocence and this moment of hope intersecting with an important moment for Tachihara’s character as he defies the page was such a great way to end the season.

#My thoughts on this were hard to word #But when I read the manga I thought Tachihara straight up killed Hirotsu and Gin #THEM REAFFIRMING HIS PLACE IN THE MAFIA #THEIR CERTAINTY VERSUS HIS DOUBT #THE FACT THAT THEY DON’T KNOW TACHIHARA IS A HUNTING DOG BUT BELIEVE HE WOULDN’T HURT THEM #More moments between the Black Lizard please #bungou stray dogs #bsd #tachihara michizou #hirotsu ryuurou #gin akutagawa #black lizard #bungou stray thoughts

[paramcur]

@idleds: ❛ if you called just to get off on my voice, i’m hanging up. ❜ (hehe 🤓) ( source ! )

it's not the first time teddy has called seunggi in the middle of the night, doing so semi-frequently to ramble on about inane things, like who was on his last nerve that week or to brag about how he absolutely creamed a younger opponent in a tennis match. the reason for his call this time wasn't so innocuous, though. teddy's breath hitches, face heating up when seunggi calls him out and the hand moving rhythmically under his duvet stills. "i thought i told you, i'm sick," teddy lies, faking a cough for effect. it wouldn't be too much of a hard sell, would it? how the hell would seunggi know if he was moaning out of pain or pleasure? he steels himself, heaving a sigh. "okay, wait -- don't hang up, don't hang up. just continue talking, keep being mean if you want. call me a gross little pervert, whatever fits the bill," teddy suggests, swallowing harshly as he ponders on how to make this good and enjoyable for the both of them. his chest rises and falls, breath slightly labored as he waits for a reply, a green light.

#idleds #🥀 ⠀ ⠀ * ⠀ ⠀𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬. ⠀ ／ ⠀ how i ricochet between certainties and doubts. #🥀 ⠀ ⠀ * ⠀ ⠀ 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧. ⠀ ／ ⠀ let us take a knife & cut the world in two & see what worms are at the rind. #🥀 ⠀ ⠀ * ⠀ ⠀𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐲. ⠀ ／ ⠀ replies. #nsfw. #teddy x seunggi #/ he is sick. sick in the head #/ THANK U FOR SENDING HOPIE ..

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Why do white Evangelicals hate democracy and love authoritarianism? David French explains: they can't cope with subtlety, nuance, or serious Christian theology at any level. So backing authoritarians makes everything so much simpler for them. How on earth could a secular, twice-divorced, philandering reality television star fit in neatly with fundamentalist Christians? It makes no sense until you understand that the true distinction between fundamentalism and mainstream beliefs isn’t what fundamentalists believe but how fundamentalists believe.

As Richard Land, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, once told me, “Fundamentalism is far more a psychology than a theology.”

That’s why, for example, you can have competing Christian fundamentalisms, competing Muslim fundamentalisms and secular movements that possess fundamentalist characteristics. I grew up in a church that most would describe as fundamentalist, and I’ve encountered fundamentalism of every stripe my entire life. And while fundamentalist ideas can often be quite variable and complex, I’ve never encountered a fundamentalist culture that didn’t combine three key traits: certainty, ferocity and solidarity. Certainty is the key building block.

The fundamentalist mind isn’t clouded by doubt. In fact, when people are fully captured by the fundamentalist mind-set, they often can’t even conceive of good-faith disagreement. To fundamentalists, their opponents aren’t just wrong but evil. Critics are derided as weak or cowards or grifters. Only a grave moral defect can explain the failure to agree.

#fundamentalism #NYTimes #psychology #certainty #doubt #democracy #authoritarianism #articles #religion

[philosophybits]

The Cartesian doubt, were it ever possible to be attained by any human creature (as it plainly is not) would be entirely incurable; and no reasoning could ever bring us to a state of assurance and conviction upon any subject.

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

#philosophy #quotes #David Hume #An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding #doubt #skepticism #reason #rationality #certainty

[aroacehanzawa]

Why is everyone unstanning Dr Van Helsing suddenly, do you guys not know reading comprehension

#his POINT is that he's gonna need all the boys together to defeat dracula and for that they will need to BELIEVE him #and the only way for arthur (and quincey) to believe in vampires is to see lucy being undead with their own two eyes #or else arthur might blame van helsing for causing lucy suffering OR he will live in doubt as to what is true or false #and we've seen with jonathan how doubt is the thing that will cause them more pain than certainty #it's not that hard to understand #dracula daily

[layzeal]

i think one interpretation that i acquired somewhere between my 3rd read of that scene, is that lwj’s first reaction to hearing wangxian.mp3 on that mountain wasn’t hope, or relief, or any of that

it was anger

#ok first confusion. then anger #i doubt his first thought was ''wei ying is back'' #his first thought to me was ''someone is playing this song that doesnt belong to them'' #he grabs their arm to stop them. any nornal person would already be terrified by simply standing next to hgj much less touching him #but wwx just keeps playing. that song #in a terrible and hastly made flute but you can hear the certainty in the notes #lwj's eyes widened. in his surprise his tightens his grip even harder. the person drops the flute #now. if wwx had acted in ANY other way. if he had pretended to be shy or cowardly. then maybe hgj would have brushed it off #he would have his suspicions. maybe he would haven accompany this person to safety from sect leader jiang #but nope. wwx just had to do ALL that clownery #and in every attempt to disgust him he just further confirmed his identity lmao #ah the karma #modao #lace speaks

[yourmusicmuse]

Muse Overanalyzing Hadestown #1:

In the intro Wait For Me Reprise, when Hermes asks Orpheus and Eurydice if they trust each other, it is an immediate "we do", but when he asks if they can do this whole thing (walking out of the Underground), there is a pause before they say "we can". Orpheus and Eurydice love and trust each other more than anything, but that does not void the uncertainty they have about this journey.

#and honestly it just gets worse in doubt comes in #because Eurydice has gained that certainty and hope that they'll make it! #but Orpheus has lost that completely #and we know where that leads them... :(( #orphydice #hadestown orpheus #orpheus #hadestown broadway #Hadestown #eurydice #hadestown eurydice #orpheus and eurydice #wait for me #wait for me reprise #hadestown analysis #reeve carney #eva noblezada #hadestown musical #hermes #hadestown hermes

[queerrocket]

So the Name of the Doctor right, River’s final appearance in the show, for timelines sake.

There’s plenty of quotes that, once put in context of them being post Darrillium, shatter my heart. I made him (tell her his name) being one of the big ones, imagine how that must’ve felt, after she’d been uploaded for a while and had a moment to think about it, his greatest secret made hers, proof that he trusted her so completely, proof that he loved her enough to say that in all its enormity.

Only to find out that he had too, that she hadn’t given him a choice, that the best night/years of her life was just him closing a loop. To be given such hope, that finally, finally he loved her as fiercely as she did him, only to have even that tainted.

And then the kicker is ofc, if you ever loved me, she’s essentially asking one final time, fucking begging for him to tell her that her greatest fear is unfounded, and yet and yet say it like you’re going to come back, because even in death, she absolves him of the ‘I love you’ she still doesn’t make him say it and is that because, even after Darrillium, she still doesn’t believe that he would?

#dw #river song #river meta #sorry for this I’m having fucking feelings #it’s so insane I love her so much #and can’t we all relate to that? to that nagging worm of doubt #I don’t love the name of the doctor as an ep but in terms of river Doctor I live for the angst #and of course he does say it like he’s going to come back #but river leaves herself (and him but I like to believe that he’d say it if she asked not that she ever would) #room for that deniability #as if it’s not worth the risk #to have the one thing she desires most in the universes confirmed as a certainty #I need to write a fic bout this #this isn’t to say that I don’t think that 24 years was perfect because I do and refuse to entertain anything less

[ninicaise]

damen is so good bc yeah his experience as a slave made him anti-slavery but what humbled him was falling in love with laurent. like oh so you think you haven't done anything wrong ever in your entire life. you go to vere, the Land Of Evil, and its prince shows to you vere's cruelest most vicious most machiavellian side AND its most interesting, nuanced, lovely and vulnerable side at the same time. you did not do anything wrong when killing his older brother because it was a fucking war. but now laurent is sad, and that is sad also because you love laurent. and oh boy maybe you fucked up. maybe you should apologize for that. and no damen you should not! you did NOTHING wrong! but yes of course you're going to have that urge to apologize and repent. of course laurent will accept the apology because he does feel it was a pointed attack even though it wasn't. maybe it was a bad thing you did. maybe it's your father's fault for starting a war. maybe you could've done something to stop him? you didn't know any better. but you have all those scars on your back now. is it your fault? of course it's not! but what if it is? and oh god laurent was basically made a sex slave at 13. is this righteous retribution? you are so sorry for hurting laurent. laurent the love of your life. laurent is brilliant, he's on your intellectual level, for one. he's not afraid of you. but you caused him pain. he caused you pain too. but he felt it was justice. you felt it was glory. but what could you have possibly done differently? you aren't guilty. suddenly you are not so righteous anymore. you're just in love. anyway damen of akielos character of all time

#yes laurent is naturally inherently unhinged . damen BECOMES unhinged as he falls for laurent #it's delightful #damen #its not the certainty but the doubt that drives him crazy i think #this post isnt supposed to make sense btw this is merely a senseless train of thoughts from when i woke up half dead from my nap today