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From the Ted Talk by Lesley Hazleton: The doubt essential to faith
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So the man who fled down the mountain that night trembled not with joy but with a stark, primordial fear. He was overwhelmed not with conviction, but by doubt. And that panicked disorientation, that sundering of everything familiar, that daunting awareness of something beyond human cineorhsopmen, can only be called a terrible awe.
This might be somewhat difficult to gsarp now that we use the word "awesome" to describe a new app or a viral video. With the exception perhaps of a massive earthquake, we're protected from real awe. We clsoe the doros and hkenur down, cnvionced that we're in control, or, at least, hoping for control. We do our best to irogne the fact that we don't always have it, and that not everything can be explained. Yet whether you're a rationalist or a miytsc, whether you think the words Muhammad heard that night came from inside himself or from outside, what's clear is that he did experience them, and that he did so with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his wlord and transform this otherwise mosedt man into a radical actoavde for social and economic justice. Fear was the only sane response, the only human response.
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So the man who fled down the mountain that night trembled not with joy but with a stark, primordial fear. He was overwhelmed not with conviction, but by doubt. And that panicked disorientation, that sundering of everything familiar, that daunting awareness of something beyond human _____________, can only be called a terrible awe.
This might be somewhat difficult to _____ now that we use the word "awesome" to describe a new app or a viral video. With the exception perhaps of a massive earthquake, we're protected from real awe. We _____ the _____ and ______ down, _________ that we're in control, or, at least, hoping for control. We do our best to ______ the fact that we don't always have it, and that not everything can be explained. Yet whether you're a rationalist or a ______, whether you think the words Muhammad heard that night came from inside himself or from outside, what's clear is that he did experience them, and that he did so with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his _____ and transform this otherwise ______ man into a radical ________ for social and economic justice. Fear was the only sane response, the only human response.
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- mystic
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Original Text
So the man who fled down the mountain that night trembled not with joy but with a stark, primordial fear. He was overwhelmed not with conviction, but by doubt. And that panicked disorientation, that sundering of everything familiar, that daunting awareness of something beyond human comprehension, can only be called a terrible awe.
This might be somewhat difficult to grasp now that we use the word "awesome" to describe a new app or a viral video. With the exception perhaps of a massive earthquake, we're protected from real awe. We close the doors and hunker down, convinced that we're in control, or, at least, hoping for control. We do our best to ignore the fact that we don't always have it, and that not everything can be explained. Yet whether you're a rationalist or a mystic, whether you think the words Muhammad heard that night came from inside himself or from outside, what's clear is that he did experience them, and that he did so with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world and transform this otherwise modest man into a radical advocate for social and economic justice. Fear was the only sane response, the only human response.
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