Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “How do you deal with doubt?”, Leave a Reply below!
Doubt is a healthy start of a question. I think it is important to have the insight and personal honesty to recognize the answer. – I am still looking for answers.
by thinking and use my mind
Doubt is an interesting response to something not quite understood, so it seems natural to ask more questions or experience first hand, if possible. By using intuition, thinking it through and if possible testing it out will help to clarify the doubt. Generally speaking, I may intuitively doubt; check it out; experience and then more often than not come back to my intuitive response in the end!
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I’m not certain what exactly the question is driving at. On the one hand, there’s “regular” everyday doubt: not having a certain degree of confidence in the veracity of (fill in the blank with anything). That one’s easy: you deal with that by the constant acceptance that whatever you believe might in fact be wrong, and then constant vigilance in fairly seeking out and fairly evaluating anything which might serve to undermine your current position.
But I think you’re probably getting at “doubt” in the sense of nobody knows with ANY degree of certainty precisely what happens to the personality of a human being at death. As far as that “doubt” goes, I really don’t have any. I presently have absolutely NO doubt in the truth of the notion that NOBODY knows what happens when we die, so I don’t have any reason to worry about it.
However, since it would seem that dying pretty much sucks no matter WHAT happens or doesn’t happen afterwards, I am naturally always on the lookout for anything which might truthfully serve to make the reality of death suck just a little less. Like having a smile and a bit of joy RIGHT NOW!
Doubt is something to appreciate, not fear. It’s what keeps us open to deeper truths by inspiring us to learn more.
I deal with doubt by doing research, by going to external sources for information. By looking at what the other side has to say, and evaluating both sides in light of the best available evidence. Then I make a decision contingent on what I know at the time. If the evidence changes, I might change my mind. I always keep some level of doubt nearby.
I foster it. Having doubt means I am thinking creatively and it usually means I can look forward to a list of books to purchase.
I have no doubt. There is no god(s).
im getting crazy for these doubts
You take note of it and look into why and what the explanations could be.
With skeptical inquiry. To try to ascertain what the truth is.