Heidegger

Ken’th wrote recently:

> Faith means not wanting to know what
is true - Nietzsche

Yes, but is (the pursuit of) truth to do with
knowing? Is truth something
one knows, or is it something one is in contact
with or in the presence of?
Are perhaps faith and certain knowledge related
and perhaps then both stand
outside of truth? Can truth be (something, some
thing, some think) held? Or
does truth hold us in its far from loving
embrace? As long as we
look
aright?

regards

michaelP

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Jud

 

Nietzsche was on the right track, but underestimated the compelling and
necessary requirement for ‘faith.’

 

For the thinking religionist It is not just a question of ‘not wanting to
know what is true,’ it is not even just a question of turning one’s back on
truth

- it is a question of making an actual, deliberate and cold-blooded,
premeditated  EFFORT

to not to want to know the truth and to spurn truth [and by
association/extension] the humanity of the rest of
mankind completely.

 

For the non-thinking religionist it is simply a question of having a
sheep’s brain..

John 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of
mine.

  10:22 ¶ And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and
it was winter. 

 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s
porch.  Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How
long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us
plainly.  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow
me:

 

I course in this I am of necessity employing trannie-argot - for the
neither of the abstractions *truth*  nor *faith* exist anyway

 - but when in Rome…

 

Like the heroic atheist man Voltaire said: 

 

*Faith is an effort on behalf of the will to believe in something for
which there is no evidence - otherwise there would be no need for
faith.*

Jud