Can You Avoid Assumptions?

It often feels to me like there really are no safe or reasonable assumptions in life. I think my feeling is based on the experience that hurt happens and people die and flowers grow and the supreme court makes people angry. I don't want to change my assumptions based upon my experiences. I want to choose my assumptions based upon the values they cause me to embody. I assume (based upon the suggestion of scripture) that God is a comforter. This...

Actions

When you attempt to explain an emotion with words, the best you can do is describe it. Actions are the only things that can really express feelings. Actions are the rawest display of emotions possible. Describing emotions with words is the rational mind's way of normalizing what it cannot understand. To this purpose, the act of writing to normalize expresses fear. The smallest action may explain volumes more than words can contain.

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