The very first time I fell out of love with a man it felt oddly familiar, that slow and frightening loss of control as your certainty about who you are and what you want slips away from you.
Bad times make you reevaluate your system of values and doubt your certainty: not necessarily a bad thing.
Imagine being that liberal, energised by the moral certainty of your secularism, sustained by belief in the supremacy of your values and righteous indignation.
Intuiting the seeming inevitability of the post-fact, post-truth world, is a bit like enduring a head-on collision with the certainty of your own redundancy: what if, structurally, societally, journalism can no longer speak truth to power because no-one cares about us speaking truth to power any more, because no-one trusts us either?
Visit a locker room, casting furtive glances at naked butts -- and ponder afresh the certainty of your destiny: ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
So I wondered on Wednesday, when I left campus to travel downstate why you had not yet spoken, in your own truest voice, your own most critically alert, gravity-packed with the certainty of your own office voice, to what is at the core of the grievances of THE General Body.
To increase the certainty of your measurements, whether you're measuring the length of on object or the amount of time it takes for an object to cross a certain distance, you'll be increasing your chances of getting an accurate measurement if you take several measurements.
So it is with all faith you must go beyond yourself, into the unknown and the uncertain, must offer up something tangible in exchange for what may never be proven, to root the certainties of your existence in that which is, by nature, uncertain.
Continue your meditation until you feel that everything is right, your will is focused and your sense of certainty is secure.
Philip Let me be your beacon of certainty: It depends.
