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By: Disambiguating Faith: Defending My Definition Of Faith As “Belief Or Trust Beyond Rational Warrant” – Camels With Hammers

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:32:51 +0000

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By: Disambiguating Faith: Heart Over Reason « Camels With Hammers

Disambiguating Faith: Heart Over Reason « Camels With Hammers — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:12:51 +0000

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By: Maximal Self-Realization In Self-Obliteration: The Existential Paradox of Heroic Self-Sacrifice « Camels With Hammers

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:43:02 +0000

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Camels With Hammers Philosophy « Camels With Hammers — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:59:33 +0000

[...] Having a true belief through an unjustified means does not equate to holding that belief rationally,…. Strong intuitions that come to us from pre-conscious, sub-conscious, or unconscious reasoning processes or directly through perception can be sources of valuable insights but they should not be confused for divine revelations or any other kinds of beliefs justifiable on “faith alone,” and they should not be accepted on face value if they contradict firmer beliefs we hold or in any other way do not stand up to rational scrutiny. Sometimes we rationally should explore counter-intuitive possibilities and test low-probability hypotheses, but all such endeavors are distinct from faith because faith does not just explore seemingly irrational hypotheses but rather it commits to them in defiance even of their outright refutation, distorts all other beliefs which contradict them, and prejudicially squelches many lines of future speculation because of its dogmatic commitment. [...]

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Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Tradition « Camels With Hammers — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:45:23 +0000

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By: Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Admirable Infinite Commitment For Finite Reasons « Camels With Hammers

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:23:08 +0000

[...] belief formation and justification practices which go by the name of “faith.” I have argued that it is neither rational nor ethically responsible to believe that for which you do…. It is neither rational nor ethically responsible to believe people on authority when they have [...]

By: Dan Fincke

Dan Fincke — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:22:00 +0000

Thanks aeroslin, that’s quite clarifying. It was pastor’s interpretation was the “too many coincidences not to be providence” which functioned independently of House’s medical investigations. Was there some sort of parallel where House had to correlate to different streams of information? I guess the way that he separated the psychological and physiological maladies maybe?

By: aeroslin

aeroslin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:05:49 +0000

House ruled out the hallucination because it was symptomatic of a completely different problem that the pastor was facing which was psychological in nature, not physiological. The pastor had been falsely accused of raping a boy which led him to become a drunken, god-resenting theist. The premise for his reinstatement of faith at the end of the show was due to how so many small circumstances built up and led to his not only being healed by House but that the process of investigation caused the boy that made the false accusation to come clean. To the pastor, it was a monumental, life-changing event. Not proof of god by any means but to the pastor he saw differently.

At least, that was my take on it.