roachboy

i think the distinction between perceptual faith and belief in some god is pretty straightforward. i believe that in the next instant my computer will not fly into atoms. i don't **know** that it won't, but experience has shown that it's reasonable to expect that will be the case. that's a kind of perceptual faith.

the shift to beyond that would come with "i believe that in the next instant my computer will not fly into atoms because god wouldn't let that happen."

so excluding the second thing; perceptual faith transposes or is analogous (take yr pick) to lots of registers that involve pattern or expectation and projections into the future. at that level, it is a basic human function. from a cartesian viewpoint, a basic form of evasion, a way of not dealing with the kind of (hyperbolic) doubt that could pin you in place unable to be sure that the floor beneath you will persist moment to moment or finish this sentences because the computer could fly into ato

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite