Faith and achievement

[bennyboy]

My field of fucks is  barren when it comes to what dictionary definition you are using. Dictionaries talk about common usage. That just means that people have started using the words as synonyms for far too long. I am saying that the closest word to your explanation is trust and faith is just a loose synonym that is more of a subset. I'm confused at your objection to the word trust. The point is that you are not using the word faith the same way that religions do. If you are just going to keep doing this, then I will move on and let you keep dancing in circles. I have better things to do.

And to your second comment there: not relevant.

Look, Jesster, let's end this right now. I started this thread by defining my terms. "Faith" has multiple meanings, and so I specified what I mean by it. If you want to argue about another kind of faith, then fuck off and make your own thread about it. If I intended to use the word as religious people do, I would have made a thread in the Religion section, not the Philosophy section.

That being said, I think the faith I'm talking about CAN BE a category of religious faith. If you believe in God, just cuz, that's not what I'm talking about. However, if you believe that due to God's assistance, you can run faster than you ever have before, and you do because your psychology is primed, then that's pretty close to what I'm talking about.