"this is true" an old friend used to say without qualification at the drop of a hat...

on faith...it is very dangerous to put trust in anything. blind faith anyway...you have all types of examples of people who put their faith in men, nations, armies, riches and a great example for just now is the stock market...not many people would have kept from laughing if you had tried to warn them of a catastrophe occurring as it has globally like it has this time last year.

the mere number that one man has been suggested to have cost people who had faith in his dealing with the system for them...$50,000,000,000.00

they say he played the confidence game so well that he was always telling them that he was not taking anymore clients...thus the people who were already in with him were made to feel that they had power and influence with this "great" man to be able to convince him to take them on at their behest.

how many suicidal sects have gotten men destroyed over the centuries? jim jones comes to mind easily and there are certainly those who were not christians. how many men were led to destruction because they went on quests sang into their souls by confidence men about riches and adventure? and on and on it goes, putting faith in a thing or person is not a thing to be done lightly to be sure.

I love my wife, but because i have lived with her and know that she is capable of failure and falling for the illusion i do not totally trust not questioning some things with her and i am sure it is the same with her. as we grow old and feeble it will be of necessity that will have to. but as you will see later it will be with our trust being in a higher calling that we can entrust our being to each other at that time (but there is no person that has anything close to the trust that i do have for her). i loved my parents and can say that as a young boy i trusted every thing that they told me until i left home. i still had respect to them but my mother would always tell her friends that he is respectful but he is going to do what he wants to. and i was honest with them when they asked me what i did in any situation, and it hurt at first but they began to appreciate the honesty that we had.

i do not trust the government, my employer, my children, any organization or what ever in most things. to some degree i have to deal with a measure of faith in them but i am prepared for anything at all times.

But i can say this, that there is one thing that I have full trust and confidence in, even blind faith to no end. and that is my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior. i am not ashamed to tell you or anyone that i believe as i do. i do not fear telling any one such. i am not worried about what that makes you think of me as a person.

the matter has been tried and satisfied in my spirit which as i said has alway been unafraid and a questioning one. so it is with complete confidence that i can relay that without reservation to people who far out excel me in knowledge and intellect.

one thing i do know for sure as you were talking about scientist who get carried away possibly, i have learned that some of the most brilliant men of learning lack one thing that could put them off the chart so to speak...common sense or mother wit as some in our community used to say.

peace brother um...