May 16, 2009
Living with Faith
I've really been overthinking this and it's really very simple. The difference between having faith in a practice or ritual and living with faith as I understand it is that having faith in a practice is a safety net, a way to alleviate the inherent uncertainty of any course of action. Whereas living with faith means taking actions, the results of which are uncertain, no net, no guarantee of reward.
At least no reward that any authority is guaranteeing.
There's only a few things I can say that I know and most of those things are negatives. I know that I cannot know that any particular way is the only way. I know that I cannot know what the results of any particular action I take will be.
So here's the deal. I am not certain of anything. I don't know anything. But there's certain things I've decided to do anyway and certain ways of living I've decided to do anyway. Mainly because in a universe that makes any sense to me, these are things that I'd like to be true, and because these are things that make me feel good about my life and the way that I interact with others. That's it.
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