Clarity & Madness

[Gonzo]

Alien wrote:With regard to keeping what "feels" right to someone... some people think it "feels right" to believe that all gays should be killed or that other races are inferior due to skin color or region of birth or that anyone who doesn't believe in their religion is a heretic who should be stoned., . Read an article just recently where some women in India were killed by their husbands because they produced female children, and their husbands "felt" it was the fault of the women. So my point is that what we "feel" isn't always necessarily true. And faith is just another word for unfounded belief - and in the name of "faith" entire civilizations have been wiped out because someone "felt" God was on their side.With this you are now getting off into morality, which differs by culture, which as we all know, in some cases allows for things our culture regards as wrong, but that is merely our morality versus theirs, in both cases, products of respective cultures. What has this to do with faith?



In regard "feel", in my own seeking for understanding I've moved through a variety of teachings/philosophies/religions, and each felt "right" for a while, and certain aspects of several continue to feel "right", which is to say, somehow the teaching makes sense to me, and it presents to me a plausible explanation for the human experience. None can be proven to be correct, so the best I can do is respond to the feel, to the resonance. That can easily be called faith, however, I don't see how else one can approach philosophical and spiritual matters.