{"id":2145,"date":"2003-03-16T06:05:32","date_gmt":"2003-03-16T14:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2003\/03\/16\/agnostic-faith\/"},"modified":"2003-03-16T06:05:32","modified_gmt":"2003-03-16T14:05:32","slug":"agnostic-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2003\/03\/16\/agnostic-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Agnostic Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671004107\/nickshomepag-20\">Contact<\/a>  This is one book that I can say is a good as the movie and vice versa.  Not to belittle either one; they&#8217;re both excellent for their medium and year created.<\/p>\n<p>The question Carl Sagan wants us to consider is &#8220;What is faith?&#8221; And how does it apply to scientific\/philosophical thought?<\/p>\n<p>In some ways faith is like stoicism applied to the future.  Wherein that what needs to happen will happen.  I don&#8217;t think that means pre-determinism thought.  Everything is not predetermined, but in the end things will turn out for the best, even if things don&#8217;t go the way I want.<\/p>\n<p>I guess you could say that I have faith that the future will turn out for the best.  Well I&#8217;d have to say for my personal life at least, and well even past that.  I&#8217;m convinced whatever the asshole in chief does can be undone or corrected in 10-20 years time.<\/p>\n<p>Okay so there it is if faith is the only component required of religion then I have it.  Whoo! Hoo!<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m still an agnostic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished Contact This is one book that I can say is a good as the movie and vice versa. Not to belittle either one; they&#8217;re both excellent for their medium and year created. The question Carl Sagan wants us to consider is &#8220;What is faith?&#8221; And how does it apply to scientific\/philosophical thought? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}