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Doubt 1 - Introduction ...

Monday, March 29, 2010. Doubt can be a very good thing - depending on what you doubt and when you doubt. When you are on a wrong track, doubt is something good. It leads you to think about what you do. Doubt can be very good … as a state where you try to find out what is behind something.

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Doubt can be good

Tony was one of these bank employees, who was in the middle of the big crash of late 2008, working “in the city” - in London's financial district. But when he saw what was happening before and during the crash, he started having doubts about the system. Pushing things to the extreme to earn more and more money could not be a good and sustainable way. Tony had doubts - and that was a good thing.

Tony lived with his doubts for a while. He started to think about better ways to live, and better ways to do business. It is good to do something and get paid for it - to provide a service or to generate new goods. But when a system is just working by pushing bubbles through markets, then Tony could not support it any more by being a part of it and putting his time and effort into it. After a year he quit his job and started to work in the financial unit of a large manufacturer. He had had doubts and made decisions based on his reasoning.

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Where doubt can be unjust

Sometimes doubts can be quite unjust. Assume you know a person for many years. You have spent a lot of time with her. She has helped you a lot and given you support in difficult times of your life. Now, suddenly, you have doubt whether she is sympathetic with you, whether she would support you. Perhaps she criticized you for some stupid behavior which you have recently developed. You have doubts - but these doubts are not justified nor do they have a reality behind them. They are unjustified doubts - and they are unjust as well since they insult the help and support you have received from that particular person!

When we talk about faith, we will need to distinguish what type of doubt we have and what situation we are in. We will explore this further over the next days … ... more texts

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