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Submitted by reido on Sat, 05/10/2008 - 09:42. How Faith and Life Interact
Ran Across this article at Scientific American Online:
(Hope I linked to it.)
Part of it mentions how behavior responds to external stimuli, and how some ot these theories may have spawned "Human Engineering." Interesting...
Anyway, it brought back a conversation recently had with some old timer engineers about how we used to create hand drawings by layering different drawings with pins so as not to redraw the basic background over and over. Which then led to comparison to layering methods in computer assisted design. (Sorry, now you see how anal engineers can be.)
What does one have to do with the other? Rather than try to theorize what governs -- faith or external stimuli -- and then attempt to scientifically prove it, can we simply gain from knowing there is a relationship between the two. There may even be a fight going on in some circumstances. There may also be harmony at times. But there is comparison and an attempt to meld the two most always. This is what I want to call Layering.
One feature (that I really wanted to get at) is that Behavior reflects a lot on Faith. In Life, Faith can be Layered with all kinds of stimuli. Is it important that we stop reacting and ask what our behavior is really saying?
reido
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The Programmed Response
Submitted by reido on Sat, 05/10/2008 - 16:22.
Bill
Acting on a reality that isn't real? Exactly. One might call that "The Programmed Response." Your illustration describes it well. What people see in your acquaintance is not the layering filter behind the behavior -- they only see the behavior.
Sectarian behavior is a lot like that. Everyone either fits into the approved category or not. And if not, then the programmed response is to "have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Well guess what? To the person being treated like an outcast, this behavior is easily seen as sectarian. No amount of words saying "I love you, and this is the reason for my behavior" is going to acceptably dissuade the person from assessing the behavior as Sectarian.
There are probably lots of situations where behavior separates rather than unites that I can't think of right now. Maybe being aware will help me to promote unity rather than separation (which is what my Faith encourages) by my behavior (which is what people see).
reido
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Behaviour Tells Secrets
Reido,
One point that I think I hear you making is that Faith works somewhere in the gap between stimulus and response. I know someone who separates all people into friends and enemies. Friends and even family have crossed the threshold into enemy-hood without even knowing it. This behavior shows an extreme lack of faith. This person insists that he is way ahead of all others in his ability to spot a fraud (enemy). But the reality is that most people avoid him when they can. They spend time with him in spite of his misbehavior, and mistrust.
How many of us act on a reality that isn't real
bill