Doubt Everything, Ask Questions, Find Truth.

I've basically abandoned my website. For the last two years, I've had a problem with the title. "Dubium" comes from the Latin for doubt. When I registered this site a few years ago, I believed that the ability to doubt and question was the most valuable characteristic of the human mind. Indeed, I still believe that the ability to think critically and be skeptical is important. We are surrounded by a world of confusion and distorted reality. If we do not come to new ideas with a degree of skepticism, we are liable to fall for anything.  Indeed, the new age concepts of openness lead many to blindly accept many errors. However, many people are so committed to a philosophy of doubt that they fail to even investigate the most extravagant claims, which if true, could totally alter their lives. I purport therefore that at some point belief is more courageous and more noble than doubt.

Most of the secular world scoffs at the religious concept of "blind faith." Such Christians are looked on as simplistic, ignorant, and yes, blind.  Indeed, blind faith is nothing to brag about. We have minds and we should use them. Don't believe anything just because somebody else does. But the irreligious world must come to terms with its own blindness-blind doubt.

Blind doubt is just as toxic, dangerous, and mind-numbing as blind faith. And just as the pendulum swings, blind faith and blind doubt are actions and reactions to one another. Both stifle free thought. Neither encourages honest investigation.

And under this paradigm shift do I wish to once again post on my website. Changing the name would suffice. However I would rather ask my readers not to just doubt all things, but to be open at some point to the possibility of belief. This belief that I write of is one based on evidence. However, as belief it requires more than acceptance of only evidence. It requires us to consider that there may be something our human logic cannot fully explain-it allows for the possibility of something greater than ourselves.  For this reason, I suggest that we open our minds to doubting doubt itself.

  ~K M Nixon