No. 69 Doubt

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Group Session Plan from FUSN (developed by Aurelie Goodwin)

Opening Words
Doubt: Agnosticism, apprehension, skepticism, uncertainty, bewilderment, puzzlement
Roget’s Thesarus

. . . the courage in the heart
To overcome the fear within the soul
And go ahead to any accomplishment
Courage is what it takes and takes the more of
Because the deeper fear is so eternal Robert Fost

I fall back on God, if only out of a desire to trample my doubts underfoot.
E.M. Cioran

The prologues are over. It is a question, now,
Of final belief. Some say that final belief
Must be a fiction. It is time to choose Wallace Stevens

I don’t believe in the afterlife, but I am bringing a change of underwear. Woody Allen

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Topic
Is doubt the worm in the apple, or the seed of new life in the corn? Doubt can be on the surface: I question my new haircut. Doubt may have a deeper a meaning: Have I been a good partner, parent, person? Or even deeper: What do I believe? Let us talk about our doubts, most particularly our experience of living with our personal doubts.

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Closing Words
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the secret sits in the middle and knows Robert Frost

Stars I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky

The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault
It rains into the sea
And still the sea is salt
A.E. Houseman