RE: Belief and Knowledge
November 9, 2014 at 7:38 pm
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2014 at 7:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Then how would we explain the "first of the faithful"? That hypothetical prime mover of asshattery that must have (at least once but much more probably many times) been the first to have "faith" in the wider web of his peers? I think that your description of what god -is- fits like a glove. I also think that the greater umbrella of "faith" is so complicated now that no one intuitively or instinctively arrives on any modern representative. No one says "I believe in divinity and trinity" without having been conditioned. There's a claim there, a referent to knowledge...on that much I wholeheartedly agree. I just wonder how that scenario fits the first storyteller? As to a "feeling of faith". Judging by the number of faithful interpretations it must be damned vague feeling. Nothing quite so specific as any of my other feelings. I 'd have difficulty accepting a "divinity and trinity" feeling. I suppose I'd decide that anyone who deigned to -tell me- about "god" would be Bennys faithful..whereas anyone who said "it's like all things are connected or something" would be Whatevs faithful.
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