faith is the reasoned conclusion that, given what you know and have experienced, that a set of teachings makes more sense than anything else.
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it is telling that the popular conception of faith has degraded to "baseless belief held anyway". as if this is even possible for humans to do. instead, this is just one more feeble way for the present to pretend its categorical superiority without demonstrating it.
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it is quite reasonable to see planes flying through the sky, or cancer cured, and conclude that science is a good belief system. similarly, it is sound to practice meditation and find buddhism to be true. or prayer and islam, and so on.
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the difference between proper, sensible people and morons is not the detail of their belief system, but the means by which they reached it.
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then, amongst these, the distinction is how the belief system is tended. like a greenhouse or a rock garden, a library or a kitchen. the truly wretched reach an initial belief system by reason and then neglect it, as if anything in life should be treated this way.
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