It's always striking to me, these things written down so, so long ago and that I now see playing out before us all. I was thinking about what I was going to write when I checked the reference to see the fuller context and saw it right there:
Men shall be lovers of themselves....
What I had planned on mentioning was where I saw the dividing line, the barrier that few conspiracy theorists--or researchers and scholars of any type--get past. That is, they love to tell you "just how right they are, and were all along". They are full to overflowing with certitude, leaving room for nothing new.
How would anyone ever learn anything in such a condition? Is that not arrogance, a lack of intellectual humility? They dispel all doubt by simply waving it away like smoke. Yet even Jesus did not castigate Thomas for his doubt, but invited him to settle it through investigation.
Since I started listening for it, I've basically never heard any researcher say, "Okay, here's the best I can figure out so far...." That's quite a commentary.
It's always striking to me, these things written down so, so long ago and that I now see playing out before us all. I was thinking about what I was going to write when I checked the reference to see the fuller context and saw it right there:
What I had planned on mentioning was where I saw the dividing line, the barrier that few conspiracy theorists--or researchers and scholars of any type--get past. That is, they love to tell you "just how right they are, and were all along". They are full to overflowing with certitude, leaving room for nothing new.
How would anyone ever learn anything in such a condition? Is that not arrogance, a lack of intellectual humility? They dispel all doubt by simply waving it away like smoke. Yet even Jesus did not castigate Thomas for his doubt, but invited him to settle it through investigation.
Since I started listening for it, I've basically never heard any researcher say, "Okay, here's the best I can figure out so far...." That's quite a commentary.