(November 5, 2008 at 5:51 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: Ultimately it's just words, the English language is probably the most flexible because not only has it absorbed many words from many other languages, not only does it pretty much rule supreme as a technical language but there are many words for the same idea and many ideas for one word ... it makes it flexible. So yes, faith, I think is a correct word for what I was saying as long as it is clear (and I think I made it so) that that faith is not the faith of the religious kind. Obviously my understanding of why the sun rises in the east helpsYeah it is just words. I just think faith is the wrong word to use because its like a more religious version of "trust" and probably even more religious than "believe" at least in my opinion.
I understand than the sun comes up every day, I don't need faith for that, there isn't really any doubt because I don't really have any reason to doubt it. Its not that there isn't doubt because I "put my faith in it"...belief is not a matter of policy. I don't choose to disbelieve God, I believe in what there is a reason to believe in. I believe in evidence and probability, I don't choose to believe/disbelieve things.
Like I said belief is not a matter of policy.
