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Faith is only evident from an external perspective. From within, that faith is their reality. Reality cannot be directly approached as you always must apply the lenses of a witness doing the observation.

That’s not to mean that reality doesn’t exist. If I see a table, I assume it exists. I don’t need a quorum to vote on it.

I don’t have the knowledge to confirm for myself that the earth is round but I have enough faith to accept it. It fits in with the rest of my model of the world.

What the flat earthers get right is that even something like a round earth is a belief of faith for most people. In a way they’re more scientific as they want to intuitively fell things for themselves rather than accept blindly.

They miss the purpose of faith though. It’s to stop delving into the infinite details of reality and focus in an agreed upon direction. Mental models are valued by their usefulness.

Questioning a mental model is great as an individual exercise but not that useful socially when it disperses consciousness and causes it to look backwards.