#credulity

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[bishopcraig]

Look What They Done to My Song, Ma!

If you recognize the title of this post as the title of a song, congratulations! You, too, are officially old – or you have a sibling who is. You will also know the significance of a brand new pair of roller skates, but I digress. After all, what good are the roller skates without a key? If you were raised in or around the Church, have you ever listened to the words of the hymns? I mean really…

[a-safe-and-quiet-place]

William Hogarth, Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism, 1762

Original - Colorized via AI

Check all my colorized antique works in #asafeandquietplace

[macrolit]

Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence. We all suffer severely enough from the maintenance and support of false beliefs and the fatally wrong actions which they lead to, and the evil born when one such belief is entertained is great and wide. But a greater and wider evil arises when the credulous character is maintained and supported, when a habit of believing for unworthy reasons is fostered and made permanent.

William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879) English mathematician and philosopher

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery." -- William Kingdon Clifford

[ashlynnbun]

I wish people would realize that “common sense” and “common misconception” are virtually indistinguishable. If you don’t have a reliable source, with a paper trail leading to verifiable evidence... then you have nothing. It’s just a claim that you personally consider believable.

[createcredulity]

My first ever commission

[humanengineers]

Finding Your Type: Fonts And Their Influence On Learning

Finding Your Type: Fonts And Their Influence On Learning

Source | elearningindustry.com | Mary Burns

How Fonts Influence Learning And How To Find Your Type

Do you have a favorite font? How about fonts you hate (Times New Roman, anyone)? Do you ever leave a webpage because you don’t like the fonts? (An estimated 75% of web users do!) Do you find yourself playing around with fonts to get the right look and feel for an online product…?

We may not give…

[we-tokyoboy]

http://www.weshare.hk/tokyoboy/articles/4686050

H.K’s STEM and Humanistic Quality：How can we educate our children’s Humanistic Quality to avoid superstition and Credulity？

[apesoformythoughts]

“It is a curious irony that such a modern man thinks that people in the Middle Ages believed anything they were told. For in truth he only thinks it because he himself believes anything he is told about the Middle Ages.”

— G.K. Chesterton

[goenglishvocab]

Credulity – meaning, usage, quotes, and social examples

Credulity – meaning, usage, quotes, and social examples

[responsivevoice]credulity[/responsivevoice] [ kruh-doo-li-tee ]

What is the word of the day?

The word of the day is ‘credulity’.

What is this word’s grammar?

The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.

Does the word have a past tense? What is it?

No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form. 

What is the meaning of this word?

It means:

[quintusfabius]

I am apt to wonder at the boldness of some philosophers, who are so struck with admiration at the knowledge of nature, as to thank, in an exulting manner, the first inventor and teacher of natural philosophy, and to reverence him as a God: for they declare that they have been delivered by his means from the greatest tyrants, a perpetual terror, and a fear that molested them by night and day. What is this dread — this fear? what old woman is there so weak as to fear these things, which you, forsooth, had you not been acquainted with natural philosophy, would stand in awe of? "The hallow’d roofs of Acheron, the dread Of Orcus, the pale regions of the dead." And does it become a philosopher to boast that he is not afraid of these things, and that he has discovered them to be false? And from this we may perceive how acute these men were by nature, who, if they had been left without any instruction would have believed in these things.

The Tusculan Disputations, by Marcus Tullius Cicero

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"If I could change just one thing, it would be to dissociate the idea of faith from virtue—now and for good—and to expose it for what it is: a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous." -- Christopher Hitchens

Elevating unjustified "faith" from cognitive flaw to false virtue is the backbone of both religion and ideology.

[createcredulity]

Wondering what I should draw

[narcbrain]

Credulity Testing - The Good Men Project

Credulity Testing – The Good Men Project

Isn’t it a beautiful thing to watch a boxer slip a haymaker? How about seeing Jet Li lead a fool flying straight into a wall with his own momentum? I love anticipating problems and getting around them, especially when it concerns my livelihood or my relationships.

One good thing about manipulative people like narcissists and psychopaths is that, when they’re going to attack you, they usually…