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Betrade · 05-06-2007, 01:45 AM

Reading this thread just made me think about faith.

We all live by faith, whether it's religious, spiritual or what seems mundanem, but when looked at a bit more closely, is really quite complex.

Even the most "devout' atheist has faith in many things, and probably never even bothers to consider it.

We have faith that the earth will spin on it's axis as it always has and tomorrow the sun will rise, and that we'll wake up. people do die in their sleep, but most of us don't think that we will, at least not tonight.

We get ready to go to work, and we have faith that when we turn the key, our car will start, that our jobs, and our work will still be there, and that we won't get fired, and that when we stop in the store after work there will be milk there to take home, because we have faith that the milk producers have done their jobs, the delivery people got it to the store on time, the store people showed up for work, unloaded the trucks and put it on the shelf, just for us, or so it seems.

There are literally millions of tiny mundane things that we all have faith in, and many of those things involve others, and believing that they will continue to do what they do. If they (we) didn't for just one day, our lives would be drastically changed in ways we cannot imagine.

Most of us never even consider how intertwined our lives are, and that we really do depend on one another, whether we're aware of it or not, and this interdependence is global. We're like a giant termite mound; with everyone doing their part.

Yet, we argue about different spiritual beliefs, as though we have the answers, and we have faith in ourselves to the point that we believe that our own beliefs are correct, while we ignore the tremendous amount of faith we put into so many things at almost every moment. We just take so many things for granted, when in fact, it's an absolute miracle that we even exist.

The universe could spontaneously collapse tomorrow for all we know, but we just go about our business, assuming that everything will keep going as it always has.

I was just thinkin', and just noticed the faith we all have in so many things is tremendous, yet mostly ignored.

05-06-2007, 01:45 AM	#27 (permalink)
Betrade Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Granite, MD Posts: 311	Reading this thread just made me think about faith. We all live by faith, whether it's religious, spiritual or what seems mundanem, but when looked at a bit more closely, is really quite complex. Even the most "devout' atheist has faith in many things, and probably never even bothers to consider it. We have faith that the earth will spin on it's axis as it always has and tomorrow the sun will rise, and that we'll wake up. people do die in their sleep, but most of us don't think that we will, at least not tonight. We get ready to go to work, and we have faith that when we turn the key, our car will start, that our jobs, and our work will still be there, and that we won't get fired, and that when we stop in the store after work there will be milk there to take home, because we have faith that the milk producers have done their jobs, the delivery people got it to the store on time, the store people showed up for work, unloaded the trucks and put it on the shelf, just for us, or so it seems. There are literally millions of tiny mundane things that we all have faith in, and many of those things involve others, and believing that they will continue to do what they do. If they (we) didn't for just one day, our lives would be drastically changed in ways we cannot imagine. Most of us never even consider how intertwined our lives are, and that we really do depend on one another, whether we're aware of it or not, and this interdependence is global. We're like a giant termite mound; with everyone doing their part. Yet, we argue about different spiritual beliefs, as though we have the answers, and we have faith in ourselves to the point that we believe that our own beliefs are correct, while we ignore the tremendous amount of faith we put into so many things at almost every moment. We just take so many things for granted, when in fact, it's an absolute miracle that we even exist. The universe could spontaneously collapse tomorrow for all we know, but we just go about our business, assuming that everything will keep going as it always has. I was just thinkin', and just noticed the faith we all have in so many things is tremendous, yet mostly ignored.