This post is titled “The puzzle of faith and belief”. But there appears to be nothing in it that describes something as a puzzle, or describes something that’s obviously puzzling, or anything like that. What is the puzzle?
More generally, it’s not very clear what the point of this post is. I will go further and say that it appears to be deliberately not very clear what the point is: it feels as if the author is deliberately leaving the actual point unstated. The impression I get, in fact, is that the author suspects that stating the point explicitly would put people off, and is maybe hoping that a few sympathetic souls will “get it”.
I find this [EDITED to clarify: “this” means #2] very offputting, stylistically: it feels somehow disrespectful towards readers.
My guess at what the point is meant to be: the author has some non-standard theory about physics, perhaps something that is or sounds “mystical”, and has found a correlation among clients between willingness to entertain non-standard theories about physics and willingness to make other life changes. I’m not quite sure why non-standard theories about physics would even come up with clients of a life-coaching service, which is (a) why I’m by no means confident in this guess and (b) one reason why I suspect that if it’s right the non-standard physics in question is something “mystical”.
ShannonFriedman, would you care to enlighten us as to what “puzzle” your title refers to and what the underlying purpose of the post is?
This post is titled “The puzzle of faith and belief”. But there appears to be nothing in it that describes something as a puzzle, or describes something that’s obviously puzzling, or anything like that. What is the puzzle?
More generally, it’s not very clear what the point of this post is. I will go further and say that it appears to be deliberately not very clear what the point is: it feels as if the author is deliberately leaving the actual point unstated. The impression I get, in fact, is that the author suspects that stating the point explicitly would put people off, and is maybe hoping that a few sympathetic souls will “get it”.
I find this [EDITED to clarify: “this” means #2] very offputting, stylistically: it feels somehow disrespectful towards readers.
My guess at what the point is meant to be: the author has some non-standard theory about physics, perhaps something that is or sounds “mystical”, and has found a correlation among clients between willingness to entertain non-standard theories about physics and willingness to make other life changes. I’m not quite sure why non-standard theories about physics would even come up with clients of a life-coaching service, which is (a) why I’m by no means confident in this guess and (b) one reason why I suspect that if it’s right the non-standard physics in question is something “mystical”.
ShannonFriedman, would you care to enlighten us as to what “puzzle” your title refers to and what the underlying purpose of the post is?