Ministry of Truth

Doubt Once and for All Words possess power whether in thought or verbalized. The penning of the childhood phrase, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me,” lay wide a chasm of untruth. Words hurt. They also heal. And, these truths include those words and phrases we consume from the mouths of others and those we speak to ourselves. From this fountain flows self-doubt (among other things). And, it leaves us wondering if self-doubt must remain a plague of human…

People do not know what people called me when I started to write detective was in primary school. It was, “Freak”, or “Psychopath”. Although my stories are all about the social issues and legislative flaws, most of my classmates merely focused on the not mattered portion of violence and death in them. Their stereotype of this kind of fiction is just “dark and twisty” while they even did not bother to actually read through lines in my stories to tell they are cruel and inhuman. This is…

attraction to this line is then magnetic even though it should be opposites that attract. I ask if this line is simply between the things we understand and the inventions we can't yet fathom, or if that line is the distinction between the pursuit of truth and deception. Either way the line contains a mystery worthy of investigation. Having an avid love for science and an epic affair with fiction, I've always been motivated to explore the intermingling of both. At the bookstore, I'm faced with a…

Overall, the main point is that lying is morally wrong. The nonconsequentialists have more leanness towards this action. They do believe there are situations in which, the truth may not always have the best outcomes. In the case of the superheroes, they are lying to keep those dear to them safe. Which in fact, they are doing for the greater good. In which case, it is accepted. The view is mainly that if it brings greater good to others it is accepted. However, the article also states that it is…

Through the whisk of quotidian sustenance, one withstands living with the impedimenta of the spars that stalk. Whilst moments progress onward, perennial regimens establish, with the impedimenta of the Encephalon lives unbolted to comprehending the contradistinction between deception with the impedimenta of actuality. Withal, once an avant-garde quarrel befalls, it cannot be eschewed. Hence, this forges a fraudulent actuality; which is what dallies within the delineation of the Encephalon of…

was not appropriate in my opinion because Plato was a student of the Socrates and I feel he was coached in the way he viewed philosophy, until he sought to find out the truth of what a wise person is and if there were wiser people other than himself. Plato did not believe that Socrates was the wisest, to him wise was seeking the truth with facts and not fallacies and images. Plato felt philosophy had nothing to do with being a physicalist or sophist nor were the Socrates either of these things…

In the reading of “the Ethics of Belief” by W.T Clifford, Clifford stated what we believe is not a private matter. Clifford explained that beliefs and ideas are handed down from one generation to another and that if one person has not done his best, the faulty beliefs can be ineffective and corrupt our system which we depend on. The comments are interesting and gives me the impression that Clifford was trying to say that beliefs are property of our society and do not belong to just one person.…

that this is another standard by which he can measure the truth and knowledge of the outside world (64). Also included in this theory of CDP is the idea that because he can separate himself from everything but his thought, he must consist of only a thinking thing (65). Consequently, that which can be divided from himself does not necessarily exist, such as sense perceptions or a body. Another standard Descartes presents in determining the truth of knowable things is if the deceiving God could…

What are ways that you want your speech to be truthful and virtuous? Doubt-Talk – Speaking within the limits of Human Knowing. People would not know everything, something people are not even noticed that they are wrong. Therefore, doubt is important, “Doubting some of our own rhetoric helps us to be honest and accountable” (77). However, it is hard to stand on our own point when someone doubt us, but “We should not be afraid take a stand. Whenever we go beyond our control beliefs, however, we…

Form—Psalms 12 starts as a lament by David crying out for help; summoning Yahweh to intervene (v.1). In v. 1-4 David makes his complaint and reason for the prayer of help (describing the wickedness of all), with an answer after every statement on what the Lord should do to those that commit the action described. Thus, v. 2 is answered, almost in the form of a syntax parallelism, by v.3—the same is true for vs. 4 & 5. v.5b—David induces Yahweh to intervene by stating, “I [Yahweh] will spring into…