"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird . . . "
Richard Feynman, Physicist and 1965 Nobel Prize laureate (1918-1988)
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insightful...
would you give us a little post divulging the origin of Fasha?
The urban dictionary says it means father.
You know,
Hello majah, hello fasha (pronounced fazha)
Here I am at Camp Granazha.
Camp is very entertaining,
And they say we'll have some fun
when it stops raining.
Fasha, Fasha, Fasha--its freaky deaky Dutch for father according to Austin Powers.
I guess I've missed all the Austin Powers movies.
Mom, you didn't miss much. :)
EB is right, the Austin Powers' movies are pretty silly, but it helps to have an aptitude for silly when you want to connect with the 15 year old in the house. Bathroom humor is not uncommon either.
Let me pontificate seriously about the original post.
How many times do we know the facts (the names of the birds), but miss the heart of the matter.
The quotation in the post made me think of faith, made up of the three elements I'm sure you've considered: knowledge; assent and trust, that is knowledge of the facts, believing they are true and relying on them.
Specifically, some lack the information, that is, they don't even know the facts, and they perish.
Others hear the facts, yet don't believe and they perish.
Still others hear the facts, know they are true, but do nothing, or worse, still reject them, and they perish.
Finally some hear, believe and trust, that is, risk it all by relying on what the facts say (really, rely on the One who is the source of the facts, the One the facts are about).
I seriously invite your thoughts in response or clarification.
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