Lex Fridman: belief

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…I think that’s why, for me, having a path of faith works as a mooring because it can help me shine that light on myself. It’s like something outside. If you’re just looking at yourself and looking within yourself for your compass in life, it’s really easy to get that thing out of whack. But you need a perspective from what you can step out of yourself and look into yourself and judge yourself accordingly. Am I walking in line with that ideal? And I think without that check, you’re subject. It’s easy to ignore the fact that you might be able to commit those things. But we live in a pretty easy, comfortable society. What if you pictured yourself in the position of my grandparents and then, all of a sudden, you got the upper hand in some kind of a fight? What are you going to do? You’d definitely picture becoming evil in that situation. I think one thing faith in God can do is humble you before these kinds of complexities of the world. And humility is a way to avoid the slippery slope towards evil, I think. Humility that you don’t know who the good guys and the bad guys are, and you defer that to bigger powers to try to understand that. Yeah.…

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