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Do you see any benefits to religious faith?
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RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith?
(September 11, 2016 at 11:29 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:
(September 11, 2016 at 11:01 pm)Mudhammam Wrote: Are there clear lines that one can draw to distinguish 1. What we know, 2. What we don't know, and 3. What we simply cannot know, due to our epistemic situation, and moreover, which should be determined by faith, as opposed to that which should be left to our intellect?  And how should we assess which content belongs on the side of faith rather than that which belongs on the side of knowledge, or its counterpart, pure imagination?
Not unless you have a very good imagination! Hehe

I know what I know because I think I know it having satisfied my own questions to the level of confirmation I need.  This level might not be good enough or even too much for another, and many others do not care about the questions I have ask. There is no accounting for anyone else.

What I don't, I know a little about, but it mostly consists of what I don't know I don't know and that's half the reason I'm here getting my ass regularly handed to me. The fastest way to gain growth for me currently is to expose what I think I know, which at the same time exposes my ignorance and I get shone where I am weak and and they are strong. I'm finding it a quite enjoyable self destruction.

I don't put limits on what I can't know. I am (and so is everyone else) objectively composed by what ever universal truth exists, immersed in it and propelled by it, there is no where to go to escape from it. Unless one is actively fighting against it, apprehension is inevitable. Truth is the like the ocean and the journey of life is like a river. When you get to the truth/ocean, the journey does not end, there is a new dimension to explore and new freedom from a one way current to explore it.

Faith means something very different for me.  Mine was authored during a powerful spiritual experience that was followed by an NDE. It was not produce from my mind but it was induced in it...couldn't very well be induced anywhere else...

You could think of it like a grain of sand that was introduced to my consciousness.  One extremely irritating to the private ego (I am transparent to higher orders of beings) and so over many years I have accreted a pearl of research over it with many many layers.

My faith and intellect work hand in hand, beliefs are nebulous and subordinate but I also use them like a fishing rod and line, using my informed imagination (belief) to cast out beyond my sphere of knowledge and pull things intuitively out of the ethers. I come up with descriptions that I look up online and it leads me to other peoples works regarding the same things.

I try to orchestrate everything in concert and work the inconsistencies out in all my internal spheres as I go. I've shed scores of beliefs like old skin I've outgrown and grow better ones in a new form....till I outgrow that one.

Knowledge to me is like the rungs on a ladder; to be reached for, pull up by, stood upon, and passed beyond.

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Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Mudhammam - September 10, 2016 at 11:31 am
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Chad32 - September 10, 2016 at 11:34 am
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Mr Greene - September 10, 2016 at 11:51 am
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Mudhammam - September 10, 2016 at 12:07 pm
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Mr Greene - September 12, 2016 at 8:02 am
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Mermaid - September 10, 2016 at 11:55 am
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Cyberman - September 10, 2016 at 11:56 am
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Mudhammam - September 10, 2016 at 12:11 pm
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Jackie - September 10, 2016 at 12:08 pm
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by robvalue - September 10, 2016 at 12:47 pm
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by robvalue - September 10, 2016 at 12:55 pm
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RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Arkilogue - September 10, 2016 at 4:55 pm
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Arkilogue - September 11, 2016 at 6:33 am
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Arkilogue - September 11, 2016 at 7:27 am
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Arkilogue - September 11, 2016 at 4:21 pm
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Arkilogue - September 10, 2016 at 7:31 pm
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Whateverist - September 10, 2016 at 11:55 pm
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Arkilogue - September 11, 2016 at 12:24 am
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Whateverist - September 11, 2016 at 12:34 am
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Arkilogue - September 11, 2016 at 1:26 am
RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith? - by Mudhammam - September 10, 2016 at 9:04 pm
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