In my last post I touched a bit on how my views on the nature of belief have shifted over the past several years, giving particular attention to how I have come to see the relationship between my beliefs and my will. In doing so, I briefly explained why I no longer find it helpful to think of beliefs as things that I choose to have so much as things that I find myself with (whether based on reason, reflection, experience, etc.). Yet this revelation not only had a major impact on how I came to se...