Everything in between...

[zoftig_the_fab]

I am going to start and end this post with a plea that people, especially certain lazy people who did not come visit me at the farm even it is only about three hours from NYC (so that would be everyone but Marlene--I will be inventing some award for her shortly), come visit me in Montauk. Of course the disadvantage of visiting me here is that you

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[faith2hope2love]

someday i will be closer. when i get an interview for a job. but i do miss you terribly.

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[crazychemist03]

How many of your friends that live within 3 hrs have you gone to visit?? Someday we will make it across the sound, but you are always welcome to come to the mainland:)

dearest

[anonymous]

jes - there is nothing i would love better than to sit on the beach and talk about this with you over some ben&jerry's. when i think of faith - i try to think of children. being surrounded by them, i guess that step in thought would be natural. the faith of a child seems like the most pure most natural form of faith i've come to see. it's trusting but not belligerant. i think that with a balance and a focus on youthful perspective - faith can be a lot more attractive.

love, agb

[mar48]

i hope that the award is something shiny...or you could just mail me something free and goofy like a seashell from montauk. lol. i was just sitting here and thinking of faith...alice makes a great point. and...i wonder what makes faith different from trust? Do you trust in your husband's love, or have faith that he'll always be there for you? also, i suppose that there are different degrees of faith...ranging from simple belief to die hard fanaticism...and look at some of the books out there...we have a whole endcap for atheism--some of these people take their non-belief so seriously i think that its form of religion to them...would that be anti-faith?

[zoftig_the_fab]

I think faith is sort of like trust but with less reason. I think trust implies an understanding of doubt. It is more of a percentage game--I trust that my husband will remain faithful and I would be surprised if he didn't, but I realize that it could happen. I trust that it won't because to live in doubt is too painful.

Atheism is still a faithbased "religion". And faith doesn't only apply to the divine or lack there of. There are always things you have to assume will happen--I am going to believe the sun will rise tomorrow because a) I, and others before me, have observed it doing so daily (and I know of no reason for it to cease such activity) and b) it would be too cumbersome to live each day without such assumptions. I think faith lacks the reason of trust and becomes dangerous when life would be too cumbersome without it.