Believing in Beliefs

This blog has been dormant far too long, and since I'm on summer vacation, I decided to reboot it. I've been writing my blot on teaching, The Real Mr. Fitz, much more regularly, because it has a more definite focus. But I think I've finally found my focus here, in this comic strip I published in my newest book. I have a whole lot of beliefs, and since I started this blog with beliefs, I've decided to go with that idea and see where it leads.

I do believe in having beliefs. I think the word believe gets a bad rap, just like the word faith does. But I don't think you can live your life without beliefs. I have a book on my stack of "to read" books (actually it's more like two stacks, and a couple of crates of "to read" books) called Things I Believe But Cannot Prove, written by a bunch of scientists. Having glanced through it, they have plenty to say. Even the most empirical mind around must rest on the belief that the only things worth paying attention to are those that can be proved. You cannot, however, prove that those are the only things worth paying attention to. It is a belief like any other...

And so as I reboot this blog, I'll be considering the things I believe, and why I believe them...