interesting to read; very enlightening. I think people blindly believe not just because they're told to but also because they want to. Believing you're special and loved and cared about is always a nice thing. Believing that no matter how good or bad a friend will always be with you if you so ask is another nice concept. -sighs- I'm one of those blind faith followers always have been but not because anyone told me to blindly follow by. My mother took me to several different types of churches over the years (of many types of christianity) before settling at her final church and informed me that when I turned 16 I could decide for myself until then that was the church she believed strongest in and was most at home at. I've always believed in a higher power. I always assumed it was because of all my disabilities. I don't believe I was made to be percieved as damaged goods just because with no reason whatsoever. I believed someone had to have made me because they loved me so unconditionally the way I was and I stuck to it and eventually
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I think maybe I wasn't too clear on this because I was coming at it from a certain angle, in response to various questions I'd heard around...
I definitely value believing without 'proof' -- I wasn't speaking against that at all. I was just saying that if you have faith in something, you can make it even stronger by adding more knowledge/understanding/wisdom to that. Certain people I've known have implied that it is destructive to faith to seek confirmation, but I think it can only be helpful.
I think maybe I wasn't too clear on this because I was coming at it from a certain angle, in response to various questions I'd heard around...
I definitely value believing without 'proof' -- I wasn't speaking against that at all. I was just saying that if you have faith in something, you can make it even stronger by adding more knowledge/understanding/wisdom to that. Certain people I've known have implied that it is destructive to faith to seek confirmation, but I think it can only be helpful.
I got what you where saying and I don't think anyone thought otherwise lol. I think and feel if people need confirmation they should always seek it. God says he will always e there for those who seek it so if they seek it so be it yanno. Everyone has to come to terms with a form of higher power/religion on their own terms so who is anyone to say its inncorrect,
interesting synchronicity, I was/am dancing with the topic of faith/belief a lot the past few days :) ... and it is only logical to use logic in forming beliefs, IMO XD ... and then an amazing experience known as faith can happen, me thinks :)
Interesting subject. For me faith is a decision that goes beyond any boundaries. A decision to believe in a posite outcome. A decision to learn to Love more and stay in connection with the wisdom & Love within. And even in darkest times it is there even when I do not see it. Life takes care of me and I exist. It is enough proof to me. :)
oh yes, faith is all that to me too. I think maybe I wasn't too clear on this because I was coming at it from a certain angle, in response to the attitude that some people I've known have had, that it is destructive to faith to seek 'proof'. I was just saying that if you have faith in something, you can make it even stronger by adding more knowledge/understanding/wisdom to that. I definitely value believing without 'proof' -- I wasn't speaking against that at all. I certainly don't have proof for everything I believe, but I have experienced the strengthening of my faith with the increase of knowledge.
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I think maybe I wasn't too clear on this because I was coming at it from a certain angle, in response to various questions I'd heard around...
I definitely value believing without 'proof' -- I wasn't speaking against that at all. I was just saying that if you have faith in something, you can make it even stronger by adding more knowledge/understanding/wisdom to that. Certain people I've known have implied that it is destructive to faith to seek confirmation, but I think it can only be helpful.
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I think maybe I wasn't too clear on this because I was coming at it from a certain angle, in response to various questions I'd heard around...
I definitely value believing without 'proof' -- I wasn't speaking against that at all. I was just saying that if you have faith in something, you can make it even stronger by adding more knowledge/understanding/wisdom to that. Certain people I've known have implied that it is destructive to faith to seek confirmation, but I think it can only be helpful.
I got what you where saying and I don't think anyone thought otherwise lol. I think and feel if people need confirmation they should always seek it. God says he will always e there for those who seek it so if they seek it so be it yanno. Everyone has to come to terms with a form of higher power/religion on their own terms so who is anyone to say its inncorrect,
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... and it is only logical to use logic in forming beliefs, IMO XD ... and then an amazing experience known as faith can happen, me thinks :)
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;-)
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It annoys me too, though the irony that assuming everyone who is spiritual to be illogical is illogical in itself kind of amuses me.
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