Doubt: A Parable

The most important thing to ever happen to me is without a doubt the death of my father. That moment in time has, and will, continue to shape my life until the day I die. A lot of people assume I miss him. I don 't. (How horrible does that sound?) It 's not that I don 't like him because I do, I just find it hard to miss someone I never had. I don 't know him, I don 't know if he has a middle name, I don 't know what he liked to do in his spare time, and I don 't even know when his birthday was.…

Henri Nouwen’s book The Wounded Healer: Ministry In Contemporary Society provides a valuable introspective approach to providing pastoral care and serving in Christian leadership in contemporary society. Nouwen provides a great overview of the wounds and suffering that plagues modern society, the current generation, individual people, and the Christian ministers who are called to serve those in need. (Nouwen, 3) In describing the challenges of modern society, Nouwen asserts that today’s society:…

Although they do trust each other, the son frequently doubts the fathers decisions, and boy does not seem to completely trust what his father says. To contrast to this, the father grows to trust his sons judgement and it plays a big role in what the father chooses to do as the story progresses. The son doesn’t like a lot of the fathers decisions to go explore places like abandoned houses, and doubts if the risk his father is taking could be worth it. He would rather move on…

A poisonous mushroom is a certain color or shape or has a specific smell because they are poisonous and those things are a warning to predators. I mostly believe that I can trust that what I see is real if something were in front of me I wouldn’t doubt that it is real. I think this because doubting everything in the world makes living life impossible because without common sense life lacks…

heights to do things never considered before. In the case of the Wright Brothers, their predecessors could not fathom the idea of man being able to fly, however Wilbur and Orville were certain they could find a way, and they did. A healthy amount of doubt is a good quality and should not be ignored. However,to be utterly and completely certain about everyting is to be naive. Nothing is ever said to be certain, for instance in 1929 when the American economy plummeted into the Great Depression…

knowledge of the world around us requires us to have two virtues: we must trust what others tell us; we must be modest about what we believe ourselves to know when we recognize we may be wrong. Either we trust what someone is saying, or we deny it and doubt it. In today’s world, most people find it very hard to believe what another person is saying. They’ve came to know their own beliefs and what they believe to be true or not. A lot of situations and cases tend to be doubted because people…

Dan, I’ve wanted to write you for a long time, but I thought it was best I just leave you alone as I thought it was better that way. You’re not obligated to reply to this in anyway. The truth is I feel awkward and weird writing this, and for all I know you’re just going to ignore it , delete it, or mock me for it, but there really no other way for me to say all of this. But its October 21st 2015, the day Marty went to the future, and there’s a new Star Wars trailer so screw it. Also, it…

The relationship between certainty and doubt is a strong one that affects our life in big ways. This relationship can be described as constantly feeling certain but also needing a little bits of doubt to keep things tangible, realistic, while still remaining confident. To start, always have a little self doubt in order to keep things realistic. If I said I wanted to live on Mars, there would be some doubt that I could achieve this dream because living on Mars is not realistic at this point in…

Many people in today’s society question their happiness, whether if it is real or if they just tell themselves that it is. In the article, “What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun”, author David Graeber gives a descriptive scenario about the purpose of pleasure by analyzing the acts of insects. He argues what is the purpose of having fun and why do we need the pleasure and uses different philosophical viewpoints to make his argument understandable. Graeber uses the strategies of pathos, logos,…

In the play Doctor Faustus, there is a recurring theme of doubt, persuasion, and resolve. The script, which was written, roughly, in the early 1600 's, has a plot of a man succumbing to the devilish pleasures of knowledge of the unknown, all for the cheap price of his soul! Faustus has just 24 years to view the worlds treasure until Lucifer himself to snatch his soul. Being written in the 1600 's would mean that this play would have a more effective 'scare-factor ' than what it does in modern…