On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:53:43 +0100, clipka wrote:

> To me, "faith" is a great deal more than a mere hunch, and therefore
> quite a way from changing sides; in my book, it is a strong conviction
> that needs quite a lot of evidence to be eroded, and just one baby step
> short of knowledge.

That seems to be a bit of an oxymoron - it's something you "know" (and I 
had that discussion with Darren a couple years ago - about something in 
my life that I "knew" but I couldn't prove.  Short version:  strong 
belief != knowledge) and need evidence to erode it, but there's no hard 
evidence needed to have it in the first place.

I had to ponder this idea that, no, I don't "know" that I would have died 
if I had gone home my normal way that night.  I had a very strong belief, 
based on no evidence at all.  I was spooked because of a long couple of 
days at work, it was late, I was tired.  Tired enough that I was 
hallucinating that my normal route home had physically changed.  Which, 
of course, it hadn't.

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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