faith comes by hearing the word of God.
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What is faith and is it desirable?
faith and trust come hand in hand , we use it every day. its not just desirable its essential, we all have a measure of faith.
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Funny that you should mention "instinct".
IIRC, it was / is received wisdom that we are born with an innate wariness of heights.
But, experiments have shown that this may not be the case and that, even such a "primal" survival strategy is learned, rather than is innate.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/...-with-a-natural-fear-of-heights/#828240546790
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There is a difference between innate, self-taught (through experience, or logic and reasoning), and taught.
I suppose that, if asked to state their own understanding of the term "common sense", there would be a range of replies. Many of which being "It just is".
I am not sure that a "fear" of heights is a good example, in that there is nothing to fear from the height itself.
Snakes are a different matter.
It might be a genuine phobia - although I suppose that does not apply to babies.
What would you class as an example of common sense - which one person might have and another not?
Snakes are a different matter.
It might be a genuine phobia - although I suppose that does not apply to babies.
What would you class as an example of common sense - which one person might have and another not?
Every single post by this guy:
https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/leaving-all-my-gloves-on-the-dashboard.519797/
I don't see what good his GP having a chest xray will do for the OP.
Fear of falling then; semantics. The point being that the babies weren't hardwired to fear falling; their fear was learned through experience.
I don't know to any research on that. Although I suspect that a crawling baby might try to put one in their mouth, rather than flee!
That's my point; less so "common sense", but more a case of "things that have been more widely learned".
So a bit like going online to 'Paddy Power' and betting your house on a no hope old nag that doesn't enter the stalls...
Thanks for clearing up the 'faith' issue
I wasn't being unnecessarily semantic. Fear of heights may be felt even with no chance of falling.
Perhaps the babies knew they weren't going to fall.
I haven't looked closely at the study, but would have thought the experimenters would have controlled for that.
It's the landing that is the bugger!
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durhamplumber
As usual.religion talks a good talk,,but makes zero sense in reality.
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durhamplumber
Rofl...precisely...except the horse still has more chance of winning than these deluded souls expecting life after deathSo a bit like going online to 'Paddy Power' and betting your house on a no hope old nag that doesn't enter the stalls...
Thanks for clearing up the 'faith' issue
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