Iszimation - Reason & Faith

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Spirituality

Reason & Faith

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The test of reason and faith is and may ever be enigmatic on the plane of the spirit-gravity interface. Neither of these two concepts embodies absolute proof. When we think back to our first memories we give reason to an otherwise rather bold assumption that we preexisted that first aware moment. Reason is derived from observation of that which is really just semantic and subjective information. An example of this could be the information given from our parents who unfailingly corroborate the alleged event of our birth. The irony is in how we implicitly accept our preexistence but have no recollection of it. Of course there is often an abundance of veritable evidence, such as the physical representation of a birth certificate, or a myriad network of eye witness accounts, that makes acceptance so easy. This implicit acceptance is in my opinion a property of faith. Even the most astute atheist must operate in this way, though they may choose other words to describe it. The phrase, "Faith gets me through it" grabs my interest because it suggests survival. Reason can, in part, describe light one-dimensionally as a pulse and two-dimensionally as a wave. There is a theoretical zenith, and nadir to this oscillation. This duality applies to a lot of things, including the former example regarding our existence with and without our memories. When the pulse of light, or all energy for that matter, sparks its existence, there is everything, but when it goes out, there is absolutely nothing. In between these points of being and non-being, we are still something, or at least we appear that way. Even though our experience carries on from one moment to the next, somehow our state of being "on" lacks a guarantee that we'll stay that way. From another point of view, consider the question "How old is humanity?" or "How old is the Earth?" This question is often answered variably amongst even a small group of people. I would answer, "there is no age, there is only now." What did or would you answer? Consider our present study of a neighboring planet, Mars. A recent successful expedition, rovers riding on the wheels of reason, has shown promise of past life support from evidence of the erosive attributes of water. If life had existed, then more curiously we ask why it no longer does. If life can be knocked off a planet, which on a cosmic scale seems reasonable, then it certainly could be knocked off our planet. In this absence of knowledge, or remembering, we can creatively estimate an answer. One of which I've heard is that we were, or are descendents of Martian life in some way. But the answer, the truth, can never be appreciated in soul as the correct and absolutely provable response. Why? Because none of us were there when it happened, if it did. Returning to the preexistence of our own awareness, we experience the same uncertainty-certainty duality by a positively reinforced memory feeling response. Something inside us says, "Yes, I remember that!" Even if there were a microscopic video camera, surgically implanted in our retinal wall at birth, recording every photon of light that tingles it, on mature review, we would experience moments of dismay being unable to recall a seamless recount of our own former early childhood experiences, in spite of the play by play. While at other times we would gain glimpses of nostalgic affirmation as we positively know a memory when it becomes synchronized with those memorable points in the feed. Some points we would recall, others, even if played back with stunning clarity, would simply not invigorate any recollection. Where does this feeling of assuredness come from? Thus even with the heavy-weight proof of an epic length first-person feature film, faith must be engendered to fill in the gaps.

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Ideas about a man whose only sense is sight, who in darkness would only have his inner voice to prove his existence. This is the faith concept.

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