Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lose yourself amid the chapels, bejeweled Buddhas and murals of the 60-acre Grand Palace, in the midst of which, atop a golden altar and dimly glowing in the dark, sits the Golden Buddha, the mysterious spiritual heart of the city. Everywhere Bangkok glitters with lavish monuments to its faith: the Marble Palace, the Golden Mount and the Golden Buddha, made of 5.5 tons of solid gold...
Since humans cannot formulate proof of a perfect being's existence, Nozick said, belief in God is based on a faith based upon personal experiences...
...Faith is caused by an encounter with something very real, but which has extraordinary qualities which intimate the divine; the belief is due to an encounter which specially mirrors some divine quality...
...Perhaps faith is a faith in one's self, the belief that one wouldn't feel so moved by the encounter if it weren't divine, a trust in one's own deepest positive responses. To doubt it would involve a self-alienation...
...Allende is unwilling to have faith in the government, or any government, then centering on the individual triumphs of Eva would impart an important, if not entirely orginal, lesson: that fate lies ultimately in each person's hands. But if we are to believe that hope lies in a democratic government taking power, then why all the fuss about Eva, and why such a conscious effort by Allende to avoid discussing politics directly...