Yin and Yang? Not in My Bible!

[Treeplanter]

You exercise faith in your daily life more often than you think. How do you know that you know anything? You can be hallucinating right now.

What do you mean by faith?

I defined faith above and, per my definition, there is nothing in my life, that I am aware of, that I take upon faith

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

What do you mean by faith?

I defined faith above and, per my definition, there is nothing in my life, that I am aware of, that I take upon faith

I am speaking faith as in faith in our own personal interpretation of reality. We believers often associate meaningful coincidences as divine influence rather than random events that just happen to occur. Both interpretations involve faith. Though faith in meaningless random coincidences might look like no faith.

But this takes us to the more fundamental issue. Is life itself ultimately meaningful and consciously directed or is it ultimately a meaningless mechanical process and nothing more? What serves as evidence is up for interpretation.

 

[Treeplanter]

I am speaking faith as in faith in our own personal interpretation of reality. We believers often associate meaningful coincidences as divine influence rather than random events that just happen to occur. Both interpretations involve faith. Though faith in meaningless random coincidences might look like no faith.

But this takes us to the more fundamental issue. Is life itself ultimately meaningful and consciously directed or is it ultimately a meaningless mechanical process and nothing more? What serves as evidence is up for interpretation.

I wouldn't say that I have faith in my personal interpretation of reality
What I have is a confidence in my personal interpretation of reality

A confidence that is rooted in personal experience and confirmation of my own experiences from what I have, over a period of time, determined to be reliable and trustworthy outside sources


As to the fundamental issue, I believe that the universe {or existence, itself, if you prefer} is vast and cold and impersonal and utterly without meaning or divine plan

It is we who assign meaning and value to life
Existence precedes essence

 

[Joy]

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