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Chrestomathy · 02-12-2003, 10:09 AM

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diana · 02-12-2003, 03:02 PM

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So possibly you were at cross-purposes in your email correspondence. Whilst you correspondee was referring to God being the ultimate provider behind all dependencies, you were referring to necessary faith in one's own judgments, which whilst I do not disagree, does not seem to be related to the point that your correspondee was making.

I'll agree with you in the respect that my "belief" in myself is not like her "belief" in God. 'Tis easy to confuse the two, as we tend to use the same word to express these two different concepts.

The "faith" I have in my own judgments, etc, is based upon experience and pragmatic necessity. The "faith" that my friend implied in her forwarded letter is based upon hope. They are indeed two different things.

I don't share her belief in God because I need more than my own desire to believe in order to believe.

The point seemed to be that I should place my trust in a being I have no reason to believe in, other than the desire to believe itself. My point was that I cannot place my trust in a being I do not believe in.

I think it was not only related to her point, but cut to the chase.

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