defining faith.
...she believed all things that were true were rational. But that isnt the case. Love for example is a true emotion, but it is not rational. I have been in love, plenty of people have been in love, yet love cannot be proved scientifically. Light cannot be proved scientifically and yet we all believe in light and by light see all things. There are plenty of things that are true that dont make any sense. I think one of the problems Laura was having was that she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
(Miller: 54)
I think its safe to say that the fundamental falacey of the universe is that things are supposed to make sense. I know for sure that I have been convinced that what makes sense, is true. Even now, when I talk, I always say "does that make sense?" as if what I had said would be untrue if it didnt make sense or even more frightening that I would change it if it didnt make sense. It seems like, that one of humanity's biggest problems is that we constantly try to change ourselves so that we make sense. Margaret Atwood, the classic "I AM NOT RANDOM!"
Reality is that deep down, nothing makes any sense, and really faith is what we use to construct our entire lives. Faith is what we use when we say "A hydorgen atom contains one electron, one neutron and one proton most of the time" and accept it as true. No matter how much proof we have, we still use faith to take the concept home, because no amount of proof is every really enough. You could argue that DNA evidence gets people out of jail more and more everyday, but even that doesnt really prove a person did or didnt commit a crime. (It may however prove that they may have been incredibly stupid.)
Faith is the final step, in taking evidence to fact. Faith is one of those prereqruisites of knowing something. If you do not have faith in it, then you cannot know it, much the same way that if you do not believe that some scientist in a lab isolated carbon 12 and developed the periodic table, then you cannot know chemistry. You can believe it, but you cannot ever know it. Faith is a commitment to find the truth in things that dont make sense.
It's easy to find the truth in things that make sense to you. Its easy to know that 2+2=4 and all that jazz, because ultimately humans made that stuff up. If I was Adam and I said 2+2=5 it would have been so because i would have been the first to make it up. But its difficult to know that part of God came down from heaven to subject themselves to the cruelty that is humanity because we as humanity, if we made up a God it would certainly not be selfless would it? I also tend to think that if we as humanity made up God, it would certainly not hold anyone accountable for their actions, cos' hey who wants to be wrong??
And even now I notice that my description of faith is completly inadequete and incomplete, I admit I dont know exactly what it is, but in honor of old assignments I'll add one more thing to my list:
9) I know I need faith, without it I do not exist.
(Miller: 54)
I think its safe to say that the fundamental falacey of the universe is that things are supposed to make sense. I know for sure that I have been convinced that what makes sense, is true. Even now, when I talk, I always say "does that make sense?" as if what I had said would be untrue if it didnt make sense or even more frightening that I would change it if it didnt make sense. It seems like, that one of humanity's biggest problems is that we constantly try to change ourselves so that we make sense. Margaret Atwood, the classic "I AM NOT RANDOM!"
Reality is that deep down, nothing makes any sense, and really faith is what we use to construct our entire lives. Faith is what we use when we say "A hydorgen atom contains one electron, one neutron and one proton most of the time" and accept it as true. No matter how much proof we have, we still use faith to take the concept home, because no amount of proof is every really enough. You could argue that DNA evidence gets people out of jail more and more everyday, but even that doesnt really prove a person did or didnt commit a crime. (It may however prove that they may have been incredibly stupid.)
Faith is the final step, in taking evidence to fact. Faith is one of those prereqruisites of knowing something. If you do not have faith in it, then you cannot know it, much the same way that if you do not believe that some scientist in a lab isolated carbon 12 and developed the periodic table, then you cannot know chemistry. You can believe it, but you cannot ever know it. Faith is a commitment to find the truth in things that dont make sense.
It's easy to find the truth in things that make sense to you. Its easy to know that 2+2=4 and all that jazz, because ultimately humans made that stuff up. If I was Adam and I said 2+2=5 it would have been so because i would have been the first to make it up. But its difficult to know that part of God came down from heaven to subject themselves to the cruelty that is humanity because we as humanity, if we made up a God it would certainly not be selfless would it? I also tend to think that if we as humanity made up God, it would certainly not hold anyone accountable for their actions, cos' hey who wants to be wrong??
And even now I notice that my description of faith is completly inadequete and incomplete, I admit I dont know exactly what it is, but in honor of old assignments I'll add one more thing to my list:
9) I know I need faith, without it I do not exist.
posted by Stina | 12:46 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah ok Ill give you that, but sometimes it goes beyond just wanting the other person to know what you mean. sometimes its about getting the other person to know WHY you mean what you do. Here is where I, and most humans need to be validated. When our motives suck, we want to be validated, when are motives are great we also want to be validated. When our motives are mediocre we want to be chucked out of the car. Some times all three will get us killed. (in any sense of the word.) In ANY case an alternative perspective is needed for us to confirm our motives with ourselves, not necesarily with the other person, because really they will never understand us. Communication is also useful for loving people. Understanding between humans is very important but understanding yourself and ultimately recognizing that youll never be fully understood by any human including yourself is what matters. This must have something to do with the diffusion of responsibility principle but I dont know quite what. If you're validated and you do something stupid you feel better about it I guess. validation is like a conformity factory.
So yeah...lets get validated by something that isnt bound to chaos.
In the communication sense its ok though.
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