01-31-2012, 05:47 AM
Alternatively, one could ask, "What Is the Value of Faithfulness?"
I looked up the history of the word "faith" and it comes from French and Latin (fides) before it, meaning "trust." The "fides" reminds me of Adeste Fideles--Oh, Come All Ye Faithful.
What does being faithful mean, but keeping a trust?
Anyhow, it seemed to me, browsing this thread, that a missing element might be recognition and highlighting of faith in what one truly knows down deep inside. Often the inner knowledge is dimmed for various reasons, but it may be that the recognition of this most genuine inner knowing--and, not secondarily, keeping faith with it--is the true stuff of inner/outward alignment and, thus, of polarization?
...or maybe not...gee, I'm not sure...I...uh...?
Why should I trust that stuff in the first place? Why shouldn't I?
I looked up the history of the word "faith" and it comes from French and Latin (fides) before it, meaning "trust." The "fides" reminds me of Adeste Fideles--Oh, Come All Ye Faithful.
What does being faithful mean, but keeping a trust?
Anyhow, it seemed to me, browsing this thread, that a missing element might be recognition and highlighting of faith in what one truly knows down deep inside. Often the inner knowledge is dimmed for various reasons, but it may be that the recognition of this most genuine inner knowing--and, not secondarily, keeping faith with it--is the true stuff of inner/outward alignment and, thus, of polarization?
...or maybe not...gee, I'm not sure...I...uh...?
Why should I trust that stuff in the first place? Why shouldn't I?