Faith, actual *faith* in RPGaming

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

We will accept your presumption of evidence though I suspect that you just have faith in reason and so are making excuses for yourself for those moments when in fact you are demanding investigatory discipline for yourself in the wrong context. Which is not really to the point.
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You are mistaking faith for trust again. I don't think we can discuss this without ticking someone off though. This entire topic is the reason for more than a few wars after all.

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

You are mistaking faith for trust again. I don't think we can discuss this without ticking someone off though. This entire topic is the reason for more than a few wars after all.

I am not MISTAKING anything and it is irritating to be told you know more then me about something you deny. However as your said you ask for allowances in regard to your speech and I would want such myself. In any case if you go to a real theologian you will find that he draws the distinction between faith and credulity at a similar place. I am posting an INTERPRETATION which is in fact reasonable and fits within tradition. You are free to make another interpretation, but do not say I am MISTAKEN when I am perfectly aware of the interpretation you are giving and am simply rejecting it as unsophisticated theology.

From the point of view of roleplaying which is the pov, however impossibly, we wish to remain lest we get a lightning bolt from the Great God Hackard either method can be arranged. The first way to simulate faith is simply to make a Will role. Another is to have it as part of Disciplines of Faith, or Code of Honor. The second is a lot more complicated but it can be fruitful in good gaming.

[PK]

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The closing of GenChat does not mean that debates about faith and religion have become on-topic here. They aren't. And adding a disclaimer that you know you're veering into forbidden territory (e.g., "You're clearly wrong because of this reason and that reason. But that's getting off-topic, so let's focus on the RPG side, everyone.") doesn't make it better; if anything, it makes it worse.

And I think you'll find I can be angrier than Andrew when it comes to my favorite forum, so don't pollute it.

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