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\section*{Should All Things be Known}
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There is a point of least faith. This is the minimum amount of faith required to simply get by in the world. The word `faith', here, is specifically left lowercase:\footnote{However terrifying this large a concept may be, as True Name would have it:
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But what does it mean to believe in something like {[}the irreversibility of time{]}? Or the sanctity of life or love or art? Or God, for that matter? `Belief' as a word is a stand-in for a concept so broad as to be to be intimidating or impossible. One may say as Blake did, ``For everything that lives is holy'', but encompassing that within one’s mind is truly terrifying.
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\end{quote}}faith in God, perhaps, but faith that the world will get better? Faith that the next breath will come, that you and the world in which you exist are compossible?
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This point 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.
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And, perhaps because of that principle, this point of least faith is always shifting, trending usually downwards --- though some discoveries, if they are to be believed, may make that line tick upwards. Every day, we drift towards some point at which all things may be known.
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