Three Unwise Men

A pin dropping moment during the latest meeting of the Hoy Philosophical Society.
Jimmy wondered if Faith (not Adam) is not a decision based on evidence that certain beliefs are true or a certain person is worthy of love. No such evidence could ever be enough to completely justify the kind of total commitment involved in true faith or romantic love. Erland  thought that to have faith is at the same time to have doubt. So, for example, for one to truly have faith, one would also have to doubt one's beliefs; the doubt is the rational part of a person's thought involved in weighing evidence, without which the faith would have no real substance. Someone who does not realize this doctrine is inherently doubtful and that there can be no objective certainty about its truth does not have faith but is merely credulous. For example, it takes no faith to believe that a pencil or a table exists, when one is touching it. Angus suggested a stiff dram. How stiff asked Jimmy.  Angus popped open the cork and threw it in the fire. Erland wondered if he should wear his leotard at his karate class. Tam mentioned he'd just seen a cow yawn.  Erik borrowed Erland's egg beater as he'd always wanted to be in the whisky business. Jimmy pointed to the Hoy 'Test Hut' the first subsea telegraphic connection to Orkney built in 1898.  Erik said the BT Helpline would send an engineer next week to connect it. I blame Søren Kierkegaard and my parenthesis.