@Fil Albuquerque,
Fil Albuquerque wrote:
Hi Razz !
1 - I didn't meant that faith is just another vital force, but exactly the vital force, or what is vital in awareness, that is, the sense of a changing world where becoming provides us continued example of a sense of a changing "I"...the restlessness of a wondering self, the vital impulse of being an incomplete inquisitive mind in its expansive outward behaviour where faith expresses the extendedness of existing...faith is thus the faith in somethingness that we still don't are but that we will become, that we still don't comprehend but that we hope to understand and through it achieve completeness, rest, die, or stop inquiry...
2 - ...and yes, in the process of becoming, that somethingness that we walk into openly as breathing through faith, is probably best described as an abstraction, as is not any particular thing...again step by step its resolution to the tangible to the concrete of our experience and understanding materializes as death of inquiry and the stop of wondering...
...hope I did clarify anything however little interest it may carry...
Ah, that does clear things up a bit. Generally, i think of of "the abstract" as a degree away from reality --a mental construct. If all that you are referring to is an experienced phenomena denuded of categories and descriptors, then that makes sense -- whether such a manifestation is available to consciousness; well, that's another question all together. But we'll be in the same boat at that point, so let's wait until someone else brings it up.
On the other hand, just to be contentious -- and i can't imagine being otherwise -- what about memory?
While i think that faith and doubt might represent the the extension and compression of a single mental muscle, memory seems a truer antinomy of faith than doubt. Memory, as a form of awareness, is no less vital; it also finds "reality" accessible, it is equally aware of "something ness", it is no less subjectively craft-able, and equally aware of change. It seems to extend in a similar way, but in a different "direction" from, faith. It also resembles faith, in that it has a negative version of itself at the ready -- forgetfulness.
While i'm perfectly content to name faith a vital force, i'm uncomfortable saying that it is
the vital force, because memory seems equally so. And while each of the five senses are indubitably filtered through faith and memory, they seem no less vital to me -- going into the complexities of taste, touch, smell, hearing, and sight seems overly ambitious in this thread; their individual structures and their intellectual import, their input into both faith and memory, and faith and memory's counter input are all relevant to the question of vitality, intellectual or otherwise.
Nonetheless, i agree with you that faith demonstrates, or enables, a version of futurity that helps us become who we will become -- and regardless of the future veracity of our beliefs, those beliefs are helpful in achieving that being.
