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lurkette · 06-30-2003, 06:46 PM

(Don't mean to keep continually bringing up my brother, it's just that he's much on my mind these days.)

Thanks, lebell.

So...in my relative inexperience with faith, it seems to me that it (having faith in something) must require a sort of...surrender? release? of one's desire to analyze and collect evidence and KNOW what is irrefutably true. Or is it that you simply collect a critical mass of experience that has you put aside the questioning and say "I believe this"? Or is it that you believe that there is something more than our mortal coil, but still question and analyze, as a skeptic, and find it holds up?

How do you "choose" faith? The concept makes my mind reel - just can't get my head around it. Is it like one of the above scenarios? Is it a choice not to question a belief? I'm anxious to "figure this out" - which is perhaps the problem, no?

06-30-2003, 06:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
lurkette My future is coming on Moderator Emeritus Location: east of the sun and west of the moon	(Don't mean to keep continually bringing up my brother, it's just that he's much on my mind these days.) Thanks, lebell. So...in my relative inexperience with faith, it seems to me that it (having faith in something) must require a sort of...surrender? release? of one's desire to analyze and collect evidence and KNOW what is irrefutably true. Or is it that you simply collect a critical mass of experience that has you put aside the questioning and say "I believe this"? Or is it that you believe that there is something more than our mortal coil, but still question and analyze, as a skeptic, and find it holds up? How do you "choose" faith? The concept makes my mind reel - just can't get my head around it. Is it like one of the above scenarios? Is it a choice not to question a belief? I'm anxious to "figure this out" - which is perhaps the problem, no? __________________ "If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France Last edited by lurkette; 06-30-2003 at 06:50 PM..