THE STORIES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE
To ask me what I believe kind of flies in the face of postmodernism [laughing. Long pause]. I guess I believe that everybody and everything is okay at some level. I don’t know if it makes sense or that there’s meaning, but that there is an abiding peace that exists. I don’t think that asRead more about You can go away and find peace and certain things will come to you[…]
Is there a God or something like that? To me it doesn’t really matter. It’s not something that sets the time of my day. I think people have a lot of free will. And we have the ability to evaluate situations and scenarios and imagine what something might be like if we make a particularRead more about For me the good life consists of very day-to-day things.[…]
I am Muslim. I was born in a Muslim family, in a Muslim environment, so automatically, it just came like that. I believe in the Quran, and the Prophet Muhammad. But actually, I don’t really practice what the Quran recommends. There’s not really any reason that I don’t practice. By the way, my wife isRead more about Islam just means: be a good person, doing good things, help others, that’s all[…]
I believe that the energy that you put out in the universe, is the energy that you get back. So I believe that if you do good to others, then good will happen to you. I think it’s lessons learned. Sometimes you feel that bad things happen to you and you think, oh gosh whatRead more about Everything happens the way it is supposed to. I guess I believe in fate.[…]
<The 88-year-old I approached this week preferred not to be submitted to a semi-formal interview. So instead, this is a reflection of what they decided to share of their deepest beliefs and doubts. Also, the interviewee preferred not to be photographed. They instead offered a rosary for a picture, which they carry with them inRead more about Religion is something that everybody is involved in, whether they like it or not.[…]
I believe in having a supportive community that keeps me accountable and keeps me learning. And I believe that we should be listening more than doing as part of that. The more people I get to know, I come to realise how many experiences there are out there that I would likely never go throughRead more about Jesus literally said it: we have to love other people like we love ourselves.[…]
This week’s participant asked to remain anonymous. Instead of taking their picture, we asked them to provide a photo they had taken that best represented their beliefs. They asked us to take a picture of their ring. I believe there’s a higher being. We’ve always had to have something to believe in. No matter whoRead more about We’ve always had to have something to believe in.[…]
This week’s participant asked to remain anonymous. Instead of taking their picture, we asked them to provide a photo they had taken that best represented their beliefs. They further requested to submit their own reflections, since they wanted to participate, but did not feel comfortable being interviewed. They gave me their reflections in a hand-writtenRead more about We humans need to belong to or connect to somewhere or someone.[…]
“What do I believe?” is too wide a question. “What do I not believe?” – that would be a narrower question. I do not believe that anything is impossible. That’s a double negative. And I would probably continue to compile a list of double negatives. If you’re working with probabilities, and you use probabilities to arriveRead more about Anything is possible, nothing is impossible, everything is probable.[…]
I believe in Darwinism. I think that came with age. I grew up in a Catholic family but right now I am a little skeptical about it. I was pretty into believing in god as a kid. I was an altar boy until I was eight years old. In our village every boy wants toRead more about Somebody who believes in a god believes in love and respect for one another. That makes them better people.[…]