Archive for October 2022
Assumptions, Negativity Bias, & Staying Mentally Healthy During Election Season || By Lora Cheadle, JD CHt
You’ve may have heard the old adage that when you assume things, you make an ass out of both u and me, (ass-u-me, get it?) and if you’re anything like me, you try not to make assumptions. But if you are human, you also have what’s known as a negativity bias. A negativity bias is…
Read MoreHow do we know, what we know to be true? Critical realism as a guide to the real || By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA
My reality includes an interconnected universe, full of potentialities and one where my efforts matter. How do I justify these claims of knowledge of what I believe to be true about reality? “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” Physicist Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize Winner I am…
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