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 ====== Faith in the Modern World III ... ======
-Friday, Dec 29, 2017.
+Friday, Dec 29, 2017. What is your personal way to approach faith and life? Do you believe? When you
+think a little bit about your own belief, you quickly realize that you believe quite a lot. You have
+your ideas about what humans are. You have your preferences. You do your choices about what is important
+to you, and you have ideas why it carries meaning.
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-**  ...**
+** We all believe! But what do we believe? And why? ...**
+All humans have their ideas about community, about the role of humans today. We all have our idea
+about why we do what we do, and why we want others to behave in a particular way. We all pursue
+happiness of some kind.
+Even the worst people in the world follow some ethical behavior. Even those who cause a lot of trouble
+and pain to others have ideas about what they believe to be full of honour or full of excellence. And if you
+dig a little deeper into this you find a belief system behind it. Everyone
+has some type of belief system!
+But what is our belief based on? What is behind it? Is it consistent or full of contradictions?
+And is it linked to reality? What type of reality? Here, we quickly get into the full discussion of
+our knowledge and ideas about our world today. What is it that we know for sure? What is it that
+we think is true? And what do we believe? What do we base our life on?
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+** Exciting Journey ...**
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+Life can be an exciting journey. It can be extremely exciting to explore faith, to explore
+the ideas we have about our world and our life!
-**  ...**
+Different people do this exploration in different ways. The artist, for example, he explores
+ideas by creating art. When he works on a piece of art, he explores his senses, his hands, his
+mind, his ability to create. A particular part of his mind and heart and body is involved, and
+the result of his reflection is the painting or sculpture which reflects reality, emotions,
+beauty, ideas and perception!
+When we think and talk about faith and life, this is another type of exploration. Humans are
+given a mind to think, to discuss, to reason, to argue. We are given language to communicate,
+to express our feelings, our plans, our desires, our decisions. With all of this we can and
+should explore faith and life today! All of this is a part of it.
+Let us go through the layers of faith and knowledge in the new year. Let us move into the
+layers of perception, into life itself, into reasoning and practice. All of it has its role and
+importance in the deep quest for meaning, which drives mankind since its beginning! We are
+looking forward to a fantastic year 2018 ...
 (Roland Potthast)
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