Faith is unprocessed emotional and aesthetic cognition of the unknown.
Cargo cultists didn't understand what they observed and experienced. Their faith was asinine, foolish, and misplaced.
Catholics partaking of the eucharist every week, and hearing about the "mystery of faith" are being clumsily pointed in the direction of the 4th dimension and what that implies about our being-nature.
They're less foolish than cargo cultists, and, they do schools and hospitals one helluva lot better.
Concerning to whom the fault of oppression belongs; "We are not all equally guilty but we are all equally responsible" - Rabbi Abraham Hescel
Concerning blaming others for the problem; "...And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?... - Matthew: 7 1-5
Concerning how to fix the problems concerning oppression; "Someone once said that the word 'motivation' should never be used in the singular. Some combination of motives always exist and it's impossible for anyone to qualify the proportion of each that is involved in any given act" - Warren Buffet (in an interview in the USA Today)
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4 comments:
Not even "knowledge" of any truth. I think just a belief that something will occur or be, simply because you want it too be,very badly.
Or because that little computer we have in our brain,has added up all the known facts and decided on the probability of it happening,
What DF said.
Faith is the knowledge of something that is true, despite it being unproveable.
No.
Faith is unprocessed emotional and aesthetic cognition of the unknown.
Cargo cultists didn't understand what they observed and experienced. Their faith was asinine, foolish, and misplaced.
Catholics partaking of the eucharist every week, and hearing about the "mystery of faith" are being clumsily pointed in the direction of the 4th dimension and what that implies about our being-nature.
They're less foolish than cargo cultists, and, they do schools and hospitals one helluva lot better.
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