update from sparkleup

This commit is contained in:
Madison Scott-Clary 2023-09-15 08:50:04 -07:00
parent 175b6239ef
commit 1429694ae2
1 changed files with 6 additions and 0 deletions

View File

@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ There is a point of least faith. This is the minimum amount of faith required to
All of those things in which we have faith, whether it's, as True Name says above, the sanctity of life or love or art, or perhaps God, circle around the unknown. The are perhaps too hot to touch directly, so we define them apophatically. We circle around them along with these simple words --- life, love, art, God --- and hope that we can divine their shape by the shadow of our passage. We circle and circle and circle, and our wandering steps wear down the earth beneath our feet until that which we explore is left on higher land. The elevation of unknown things is a constant and collective process.
-----
((Job of the fable is largely unchanged, but one must imagine being presented with these events must have left him with a choice. This was his point of least faith and we must imagine his choice.))
-----
I'm Madison now. I'm no closer to defining what it means to be transgender. Were I pressed to describe what it feels like, I may have the words --- it feels like an oscillation between dys- and euphoria as I move further away and closer to this sense of identity --- but I don't have the connection to those words that makes them feel *real,* feel *true.*
This point of least faith implies for some an *ideal* of least faith: that one should strive to live their life taking the least number of things on faith as possible, that to rely too much on faith becomes a fault. For others, it is a principle of least faith: it is an intrinsic property that we tend towards the least amount of faith required to live, as is evidenced by the ever-increasing understanding of the world around ourselves.