You are making the point for me very well about how much of everything we do is not rational thought or grounded. You can call it habit, or you can call it faith that getting out of the bed is the correct thing to do.
Whether you re-think your logic or not every morning or not does not make much difference in whether or not the action is faith based in my book. You are acting on the belief/perspective/point of view that getting out of bed is the appropriate thing to do.
Point #2:
Hedonistic examples are simple and thus easy to describe. I could lay out more complex belief systems, but then I’d have to write a book rather than a blog post.
I think there’s something else you might be getting at here, but I’m not really sure what you’re trying to show through this statement, so if you want to be more direct or ask a question, I’d be interested.
Depends how you define central. There are several different definitions of Faith if you look on Google. Personally, I think the fact that you choose to get up every morning, in some ways makes this more central than religious faith, which people think about far less frequently. Although I do of course get what you are pointing at.
What I am pointing at in this post, is that people take things on faith all of the time, that impact their quality of life, without realizing it.
As an example, if you were to question your reasons for why you get out of bed in the morning when you do, even something that mundane could potentially have a huge impact on your life.
You may for example decide to get up slightly earlier or slightly later, and this could potentially allow you to get something else done in the morning, or increase your wakefulness during the day, and have a domino of good consequences effect you throughout the day.
Another point I was making is that willingness to questioning your faith related to getting out of bed in the morning—in the way that I’m using the word—is in my experience highly correlated with willingness to question your Faith in the most common usages of the word:
“complete trust or confidence in someone or something.” and “strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual”
Even if the case is not a central example, that I have found a very strong correlation between this example and other more standard examples causes me to think that I am considering the concept correctly.
Point #1:
Yes.
You are making the point for me very well about how much of everything we do is not rational thought or grounded. You can call it habit, or you can call it faith that getting out of the bed is the correct thing to do.
Whether you re-think your logic or not every morning or not does not make much difference in whether or not the action is faith based in my book. You are acting on the belief/perspective/point of view that getting out of bed is the appropriate thing to do.
Point #2:
Hedonistic examples are simple and thus easy to describe. I could lay out more complex belief systems, but then I’d have to write a book rather than a blog post.
I think there’s something else you might be getting at here, but I’m not really sure what you’re trying to show through this statement, so if you want to be more direct or ask a question, I’d be interested.
This would be a very non-central example of faith.
Depends how you define central. There are several different definitions of Faith if you look on Google. Personally, I think the fact that you choose to get up every morning, in some ways makes this more central than religious faith, which people think about far less frequently. Although I do of course get what you are pointing at.
What I am pointing at in this post, is that people take things on faith all of the time, that impact their quality of life, without realizing it.
As an example, if you were to question your reasons for why you get out of bed in the morning when you do, even something that mundane could potentially have a huge impact on your life.
You may for example decide to get up slightly earlier or slightly later, and this could potentially allow you to get something else done in the morning, or increase your wakefulness during the day, and have a domino of good consequences effect you throughout the day.
Another point I was making is that willingness to questioning your faith related to getting out of bed in the morning—in the way that I’m using the word—is in my experience highly correlated with willingness to question your Faith in the most common usages of the word:
“complete trust or confidence in someone or something.” and “strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual”
Even if the case is not a central example, that I have found a very strong correlation between this example and other more standard examples causes me to think that I am considering the concept correctly.