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saltpoint

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Wed Oct-07-09 12:56 AM
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10. Each person doing the defining would have his or her own blueprint,

seems to me.

Very hard to find simple categories.

"The faithfulness I can imagine," write poet Adrienne Rich, "would be a weed flowering in tar, a blue energy piercing the massed atoms of a bedrock disbelief."

That is a determinedly pre-Christian, almost pre-consciousness formulation of faith, a plunge into very ancient Jungian archetypes shifting around in the subconscious and discoverable in fragments of a dream-state.

And I by god like it.

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What do you mean by "faith"? Do you blur the different meanings?	Silent3	Oct-05-09 12:20 PM	#0
Be it done unto you according to YOUR faith	blueworld	Oct-05-09 12:32 PM	#1
"Your" reality? As in the personal separate reality you exist in?	Silent3	Oct-05-09 01:40 PM	#2
I don't know if there is a more misused word in this forum.	trotsky	Oct-05-09 02:53 PM	#3
I find your lack of faith disturbing.	laconicsax	Oct-05-09 05:34 PM	#4
Religious faith would certainly seem a bit more impressive...	Silent3	Oct-05-09 11:49 PM	#5
You can't prove it doesn't!	laconicsax	Oct-06-09 02:45 PM	#7
That'd be fricking awesome. I'd be a true believer if that were the case. n/t	trotsky	Oct-06-09 03:52 PM	#8
And it would be super cool to be able to strangle someone on cable news	saltpoint	Oct-07-09 01:24 AM	#11
In most cases, competing definitions of 'faith' are self-blurring and none	saltpoint	Oct-06-09 01:45 AM	#6
Isn't that kind of faith just a coping mechanism, not a virtue?	Silent3	Oct-06-09 03:57 PM	#9
Each person doing the defining would have his or her own blueprint,	saltpoint	Oct-07-09 12:56 AM	#10

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