What is your response to a question about faith from family or friends? Elusive truths or half-truths, flat lie or an attempt to explain what you actually believe in? Anyone telling their aunties at Christmas dinner that they are a witch?
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What do you believe in?
- Thread starter Magpie
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These days it is rare for me to be asked such a question, but when I was I would turn it around and ask the person:
- Do you believe that Life has meaning or do you know that Life has meaning?
I find it much easier to deal with the knowers.
My own practice is to consider every belief or faith to be an hypothesis awaiting an experiment.
I can imagine the confusion that response causes. Gnosticism is so foreign to most people
I am not sure that is true.
Many years ago I worked with a fellow that was getting near the knowing stage. One day I saw him in the street and it was obvious he had changed so I asked my test question.
He replied that he did not know that Life has a meaning but had stopped hoping for undeserved gains such as a lottery win.
That seemed to me to another way of stating the same: Life is not random