Assume that there is a core self according to
which changes are measured; that is, assume that
there is an object-standard that can be referred
to as a "self" and that there are objective
characteristics contained within this standard
which determine how this self behaves in relation
to other objects (assume that self *exists* and
has *being* [or action]).
Thus, what is objectively "true" for this self
might be measured according to this standard, or
base, formulation of self (a given). Then,
*faith* is a characteristic of this <self> (meme)
which (faith) is "encoded" into its (self's)
abstract form: Or else, <faith> is a *virus*
which contains the coding for a potential self
(and might be called a virus rather than a meme
since <self> would be the memetic pattern, or
standard, and this pattern-- it is suggested-- is
potentially invaded by the mutated *faith virus*
such that >faith< might become superior to self
and thereby disrupt the logic of the existence or
being of this self for the replication of faith as
a [subjective] standard, even to the point of
self-negation).
Trust, on the other hand, is the interaction of
grace and vanity. It is an example of infinite
complexity and chaos-ification... a sense of void,
or non-being (like "phenomenology", in which
"spirit" [or group tendency] becomes active-- when
self is negated-- such that self is simultaneously
affirmed in such negation but projected upon an
"other", or object(s) of desire). So, *trust* is
an example of inter-subjectivity... it is the
Faith is like saying "I know I can do it because
that is who I am and that is what I do": Trust is
like saying "I imagine I can do it because you
can't stop me and because I haven't yet proven
(ego) illusion of self-existence as confirmed
completely through "external" sources (as if such
sources were not accessible to self,
paradoxically).
B. Lane Robertson
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