Ultimately: Belief+faith=ignorance, Fact=skepticism=truth.
which equation would you choose?
2006-10-23 18:45:14 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Remember, ignorance is bliss. Would you rather be blind and happy, or know the truth but be disappointed?
2006-10-23 18:48:12 · update #1
Formulas correct. Move several places and if you pass Go get some more books. FACT, EVERY TIME, because "facts" are always open to review. They become beliefs when they are not. A belief is a fixed idea, with fixed inferences and expectations. Beliefs usually measure our ignorance. Faith, by the way, is totally different. It has no object, subject, assertion or expectation. It is like the act of entrusting yourself to a leap with no visible means of support, no assumptions. So the word is wildly abused by the religious. Even the then Archbishop of Canterbury in discussion with me many year ago agreed with that. He said he had lost his beliefs - but he still had faith to keep him going! How could he preach? He said because some people needed to believe in God for support because that's all they were capable of. As an atheist I didn't approve of that, but I could understand. He was a kind man, and honest.
2006-10-23 18:57:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To ignore a fact is insanity. But at some point you run out of facts and you have to decide which theory you have faith in. Or which theory is more fun or is more helpful.
I think it's alot more fun to be a deist than a godless heathen. But both callings require faith.
Looking through Yahoo answers here I gotta say the true believing deists and the true believing non-deists seem to be cut from the same cloth. I feel more akin to the non-deists who admit they don't have all the answers.
2006-10-24 02:02:37 · answer #2 · answered by hankthecowdog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well i'm a Christain but i agree with Boopie cause when ever i ask i tricky question, i don't get facts back i just get told to have faith. So faith and facts is two different things. Just because you believe in something does not make it a fact, like if you read books about Santa Claus and study that really hard, that does not make to an expert in facts, that makes you an expert in Santa. And i think Boopie is very smart and not happy with people who say how dare you and who do you think you are. She's Boopie, good as anyone.
2006-10-24 02:00:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Neither. Faith comes before belief. Belief comes from personal experience.
Glad you're not going to be a math teacher...
Fact & skepticism are two different coins. Skepticism is faith that something may not be true or may not be false.
2006-10-24 01:50:21 · answer #4 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It takes more faith to believe the universe spontaneously spurred from a bee bee sized incredibly dense mass; and assuming the unnaccounted 10^-43th of a second must have been somehow triggered. To believe we have evolved from apes (and farther back even fungii), to believe that amino acids of polypeptide chains in DNA sequences are aligned perfectly, despite the 100's of codons and anticodons that must match up.The fact that we sleep every night and wake up; and all these functions of nature that are so complexly designed. It takes ALOT more faith to believe in theories of science than in God. Fact is irrelevant to God, when we base flimsy scientific theories off these "undisputed" facts. I choose God, thank you very much.
2006-10-24 02:26:00 · answer #5 · answered by justmyinput 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I could truly choose faith I would--it would be lovely to be in a whacky ward somewhere thinking that I am some chosen child of god who can walk on water, heal people and teleport to faroff places to save the universe--who cares what the reality is if you don't HAVE to accept it--I'm kind of jealous of the deluded, aren't you?
2006-10-24 01:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what facts are you talking about?? I haven't seen any yet or should we just believe what you say and have 'faith' that you know what
you're talking about.
I think I'll stick with the dependable faith based on facts that I have now.
2006-10-24 01:51:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fact and Faith are the two sides of a same coin.. its Belief (Faith) that makes some thing a Fact... nothing is a Fact, unless u believe...............
2006-10-24 01:49:07 · answer #8 · answered by yogi_lal 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
who do you think you are that you can make a final call on belief being ignorance and skepticism being truth?
ok then lets see how you like it
belief= truth skepticism=fat bald headed retards FACT because i said so DEAL WITH IT
2006-10-24 01:48:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Boopie, why do you think having faith means one is ignorant? I have studied the bible more than anything I've ever spent time on in my life. I'm so sorry....that you have this kind of attitude.
2006-10-24 01:48:08 · answer #10 · answered by Esther 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋