by David Richardson | Aug 30, 2016 | Basic Assumptions, Morals/Ethics, Type 3 Assumptions
People like atheists, secularists, as well as more spiritually minded people find Christians and orthodox Jews to be mysteriously, even disturbingly, different, but usually cannot pinpoint why. If you understand how assumptions work, especially our most basic...
by David Richardson | Aug 16, 2016 | Basic Assumptions, Type 2 Assumptions
If there was ever an example of the power of a faulty assumption, it will be in this post. Everyone assumes. We can’t help it. It is not a matter of if you assume, but how you assume and whether your assumptions are true. Previously I described Type 1...
by David Richardson | Aug 9, 2016 | Basic Assumptions, Type 2 Assumptions
When radical Muslims shout “Allahu Akbar,” they are declaring a certain assumption. Do you know what it is? Assumptions are the most powerful and dangerous of ideas, so it is important to get them right. Everyone on the planet starts with one of three basic core...
by David Richardson | Aug 5, 2016 | Basic Assumptions, Type 1 Assumptions
There are no gods, no purposes, no goal-directed forces of any kind. There is no life after death. When I die, I am absolutely certain that I am going to be dead. That’s the end for me. There is no ultimate foundation for ethics, no ultimate meaning to life, and no...
by David Richardson | Aug 2, 2016 | Basic Assumptions
I have shown you a little about what assumptions are in general and how they work. Let’s look at the specific assumptions that all of us make. I have spent years researching and categorizing assumptions. These assumptions are very powerful, and yet they are...
by David Richardson | Jul 27, 2016 | Basic Assumptions
An assumption is “a willingness to accept something as true without question or proof” (Cambridge English Dictionary). It is something we consider to be self-evidently true—something that anyone who knows anything knows to be true. Since it is self-evidently true,...
