Faith...no not her.

No, no don't go running for the hills, all of us have faith in something.  Faith isn't reserved for just those of a religious bent.  

Such as, most of us have faith that the sun will come up tomorrow, water will run downhill, bears will do their thing in the woods, the totally despondent have faith they will be totally despondent tomorrow and the really faithful believe that the Seattle Mariners will win the world series this year!

Of late I've been giving faith a lot of thought and though I'm no philosopher, certainly smarter people than I have debated the topic of faith, I do have a couple of thoughts.

Faith is a tricky thing.  You can have faith in your doctor or you can have no faith in your doctor.  In the latter case get a new doctor.  Certainly your faith in someone else can later be misplaced faith but that's life and you have faith it will be different next time.  But what I've really been thinking about is what faith is and the measure of faith.

Measuring faith introduces what particle physics call the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal.
Yes I said there would be no particle physics sorry.  The Uncertainty  Principal basically says the measurement of a particle is influenced at some level by the "measurer" thus introducing uncertainty in the measurement.

When you start to measure your faith you start to introduce, just as Mr. Heisenberg theorized, uncertainty and uncertainty certainly is the opposite of faith.  Maybe you knew that but I didn't figure it out until recently.  

Also, I think one shouldn't over think faith.  If you think too hard about faith then you are loosing faith in faith.  Yep, I did promise ice cream headaches.  Faith just is.

So, if you are battling with the Effing Evil Empire, then as a commonly said salutation in the 60s and 70s, "Keep The Faith".  There's a whole list of things in our battle we have to think about.  Isn't it cool that faith isn't one of them.

Talk to you later.