I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality but I did not of course manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.
Contrary to general belief I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best they are merely the people who got there first.
It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us yet the worst in us.
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best regardless of how much he receives for his services or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics and in the modern age in the West is is the last best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility you are not attractive - you are leaking.
An attitude of philosophic doubt of suspended judgment is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief but of despair.
It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief of holding on.
To engage with art we have to be willing to be wrong venture outside our psychic comfort zones suspend disbelief and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
For many years I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose it seems to me must be the improvement of mankind.
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go 'Oh yeah okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.