Monday, April 2, 2007
faith and Hitchhikers guide
faith, what is faith first off? is it just religon or is it something you find in a person? my defintion of faith is something you can not prove you know its there you feel it but you can see it or touch it. so faith can be found in a numerous amout of places. you can find it in the novle hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. you find it with two friends author and ford perfect, who if you ask me is not all that perfact. at any rate author puts his faith in ford towards the beinging of the nolve when someone was trying to bulldoze his house. ford wanted to go to the bar author chouldnt bc he had to stay and protect his house. bad move by author if you ask me he is out of a house. witch dosent realy matter bc he dose not have a planet to put it on if he did have a house. but once earth was destroyed author had to put his faith in ford once again that everthing whould be ok and that nothing bad was infact going to happen to him. so i ask you chould you put your faith in someone who has let you down once befor? if so how? i have found that this is one of my greatest personal trates that once you hert me or dont help me or are rude to me. i will never give you my trust again. so i ask should you put your faith in someone who has let you down befor?
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I cannot, nor will I attempt to answer your question. I do, however, have some other criteria for one to look at, for example, when this person let you down before, could they have chosen to help you, or was it out of their control? Did they lie, did they tell you they would help you, or did they tell you that they couldn't? Did they respond, at all? What, exactly was their response? Did they tell you that they'd try? If so, did the? What did they say when you confronted them?
I admit, it is hard to trust one who has let you down before, but I believe that it is possible!
I kind of agree with Orion on this one. Was it out of that persons control? I've been let down a lot! And there are certain times when I can honestly say I would never put faith or trust into that person again. Yet there are still other times when something was out of their control and I have been able to understand that and continue to put my trust into them. So I'm 50/50 on this. But I do understand where you are coming from. I'm just a little confused about how Ford let Author down, was it intentional?
I think that everyone needs a second chance. I am sure there has been a time in you life when you needed someone to give you a second chance and they probably gave it to you. I think that Ford redeemed himself to Arthur by letting him now that the Earth was going to be destroyed and then he took Arthur under his wing to help him through this disaster. My point is even if someone has let you down there could have been a really good reason that they were not there for you and if you let them explain maybe you would realize that they deserve a second chance and that life is too short to hold grudges.
What do think of the fact that in the book, when getting ready to tear down Arthur house Prosser explained that they were building a bypass and that there has been a notice up for months but in a place that is hard to get to and when the ship came to destroy Earth they said that they a building a bypass and that they have a notice up as well but it is also in a place that we could not get to?
ok first off i was use that as an example not a specific situation. and ford let author down when he had the demolishers lay down in front of his house to protect it. and they went off to the bar. ford promised author nothing would happen to his house. and ab 3 pgs latter it was gone. however i will agree with Travis that ford did more than make up for it when he rescued him from a plant that was about to be destroyed.
first of all, i like how you used your book as a link to personal experience. i think orion is on the money insofar as i can't answer the question at the end of the post, but it is an interesting question nonetheless, and one that deals with your own view of faith. do you have enough faith that people can change, or learn from their mistakes, or even that we can misinterpret situations and make mistakes ourselves? this is an interesting discussion.
im my personal expreince people dont change as much as you want them to as much as you think they did. people do not change. they may try to you may think they did however. there still the same person undernith it all, and in the end its just an act that is shown for what it is.
I agree with Orion about letting the person know, they were in the wrong and then trying to get to the end of the problem. People will change when they fill that they need too change. The only way to help them change is to let them know what they did wrong. Point them out on their mistakes so that they know they have been noticed on what they did. Then they may put in at least a little consideration on changing and trying to make a wrong a right. If they act like nothing is wrong then I would leave it at that, because that person is not really a friend if they can’t try to fix there wrong, but then you have the people that don’t care and only look out for number one.
Then Mister Nail said maybe we are making the mistake and taking the whole situation too far. Maybe we are blowing the whole thing out of the water. This all depends on the kind of person you and how big of a let down your friend gave you.
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