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The Architect's avatar

The paradox of doubt is that it does not weaken faith, it tempers it. Like fire to steel, the presence of doubt refines what would otherwise remain brittle belief inherited by default.

This piece captures that crucible well: the shedding of secondhand truths, the heartbreak of outgrowing a mentor, and the sacred loneliness that descends when one finally stands on the edge of their own convictions.

You remind us that belief without testing becomes dogma; doubt without movement becomes despair. But when doubt is paired with courage, it becomes a forge. You walk that edge here, not cynically, not passively, but as someone inviting us to live in the open questions.

And that, perhaps, is the final initiation: not being given an answer, but being entrusted with the question.

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Derek Lakin's avatar

"The anger and the doubt are not the problem. The problem lies in becoming passive or overly negative." I'm just now waking up to the reality that our emotions aren't the problem, but indulging in them is. We're human, so we can feel them, but we must realize they're something that spring from us, instead of something that happens to us. We have all the control.

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