Tag: is heresy right for you
If you are not accumulating more questions than answers, you may be doing heresy wrong
The world needs social sovereignty
In a move of modern heresy, the Mastodon blog has called for governments to get out of corporate-owned social media and to federated and free social media. Big business will hate that, but truth should probably be free.
Ask your government if this heresy is right for them (it is).
To be a heretic you must check and verify all teachings you recieve
If you don’t want to do that, then heresy isn’t for you. Have you considered fundamentalism instead?
Good heretics use a second source
When an exciting new potential heresy comes your way, if you don’t check to see if you can find the same information from another source, heresy is not for you.
If you’re able to self-reflect and identify and address your own shortcomings, heresy might be right for you.
Identify their bias
Before adding an exciting new heresy to your collection, you should try to identify the bias of the one giving it to you. They may have something other than ideas they are really trying to push. You should know what that is before you jump in.
Identifying the bias of your sources is not always easy. It takes practice and leads to something some people call discernment.
- Here’s a short guide on identifying bias
- Here’s a list of 14 bias types
- Here’s a guide about bias in the media
I didn’t write any of these. I just found them with a quick search.
Reply with your bias identification tips.
If you don’t like to be criticized, heresy most certainly isn’t for you.
If you don’t like to think a lot about your decisions because you depend on gut feelings, heresy is not for.
If you prefer gut feelings over clear thinking, heresy is not for you.
To avoid deceptions and find fresh heresy you have to work out your own answers.
If you always defer to other people, thinking might not be for you.
Being a heretic takes guts
And being set on fire. But mostly guts.