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**tsaaapla** · 08-31-2010, 07:01 PM

If faith = belief/conviction without or in spite of evidence, I don't see any other healthy approach to it but to minimize it with the goal of eliminating it altogether through direct experience and necessary inference. If you feel a need to believe, seems it would be a good idea to examine why you feel that need. I don't see how faith can lead to disillusionment/disenchantment or take one any closer to seeing the world as it really is. Seems that great faith can only be possible when there is concurrent great ignorance, eh?

08-31-2010, 07:01 PM	#3
tsaaapla Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 401 Senior Member	If faith = belief/conviction without or in spite of evidence, I don't see any other healthy approach to it but to minimize it with the goal of eliminating it altogether through direct experience and necessary inference. If you feel a need to believe, seems it would be a good idea to examine why you feel that need. I don't see how faith can lead to disillusionment/disenchantment or take one any closer to seeing the world as it really is. Seems that great faith can only be possible when there is concurrent great ignorance, eh?
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