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Thank you for your response. We'd need a podcast to unpack everything, but I appreciate your willingness to be constructive--thus I'll try to give my 2 cents and call it a day. > [...] Faith only has anything to do with success if you squint.
I understand that the original post puts "success" on its title, and hence justifies your wording. But I find success irrelevant to the discussion that the--not any more--downvoted comment hinted towards. Secular achievements are mere byproducts of a Faith-fueled life in my view. Reconciliation with the prospect of death, defeat of despair, and the sense of a life well and fully lived, are more at the center. > [...] putting faith in ones destiny above all else tends to be adjacent to people that are delusional about the effort they need to actually put in to the task.
Not my experience at all. It has to do with the weight and meaning one puts on words, I guess. Yes, Faith means, at least according to Kierkegaard, that everything is possible. But as regards the needed effort to attain said everything, if it's downplayed by the actor then it's not Faith we're talking about--but rather, as you say, delusion. If anything is implied by Faith, it's seriousness. I am with you on your point about judging programmers according to their provable merit. I am certainly not with you on framing Faith as "being certain he's the next John Carmack". I believe lots of people carry the same misconception, and it's a fact that saddens me. BTW, I ceased being an Orthodox Christian a long time ago, and was quite fervent about religion until that point. I am not trying to any dogma here, other than that Faith breeds Greatness if done right. |