tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post114375803404652258..comments2024-03-27T02:13:58.088-07:00Comments on Integral Options Cafe: Sharon Salzberg: Stages of Faithwilliam harrymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06981478282688361274noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-1143906454008691442006-04-01T08:47:00.000-07:002006-04-01T08:47:00.000-07:00Kai,Calling bright faith pre-rational might be a l...Kai,<BR/><BR/>Calling bright faith pre-rational might be a little off, as you suggest. The faith itself isn't pre-rational in the same way that blind faith is pre-rational. <BR/><BR/>However, the way it is experienced (unquestioned, unbounded) is certainly non-rational, and certainly not post-rational. So maybe we need another category.<BR/><BR/>Maybe there is another category besides pre-rational, rational, and post-rational -- perhaps irrational can be redefiend as that which is not rational, but is also not pre-rational or post-rational.<BR/><BR/>I don't know.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for throwing a wrench into my nice clean theory. :)<BR/><BR/>Billwilliam harrymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06981478282688361274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-1143815132822475592006-03-31T07:25:00.000-07:002006-03-31T07:25:00.000-07:00I don't think bright faith is pre-rational, so muc...I don't think bright faith is pre-rational, so much as simply new. One has not yet begun to question, perhaps because the love is so new and overwhelming, perhaps because one hasn't gained enough knowledge yet to understand what to question (or acquired the experience that must precede verification): lack of experience or knowledge doesn't imply prerationality does it? Alas, blind faith. So much of it, isn't there?<BR/><BR/>kai in nycAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com