In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. There can be no contradictions.įaith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy - to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were. “ A contradiction can not exist in reality. Although Zedd explains it to Kahlan, no one has to explain this to Richard, though he does know of it by Naked Empire. Richard is by this point the embodiment of the rule. It must be wielded in spite of the ceaseless, howling protests of the wicked." Nonetheless, it is the one most often ignored and violated, and by far the most despised. It is not only the most important rule, but the simplest. Quoting Zedd: ".most important rule there is.The Sixth Rule is the hub upon which all rules turn. In rejecting reason, refusing to think, one embraces death. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light.
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We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss that we refuse to see. Reason is our only way of grasping reality it is our basic tool of survival. Wishes and whims are not facts nor are they a means to discover them.
It is the foundation from which life is embraced. The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists what is, is and from this irreducible bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. ” ― Faith of the Fallen: Chapter 41, pages 459-460 (paperback) “ The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason. In both the book and the show, Zedd instructs Richard on this rule. Instead of allowing biases to twist one's brief, one must try and escape the effect of the biases and determine the actual truth of a situation. Similarly, when someone fears something may or may not be true, such as that one is not competent enough to fill one's job responsibilities, then he may actually believe that such is true. When someone hopes something may or may not be true, such as that a friend did not betray him, then he may actually believe in a lie told to him by another, or told to himself, that the friend did not betray him, when in actuality the friend did. Two of the most powerful biases are hope (or, described differently, optimistic belief that something may be true) and fear. Such biases twist the mind into believing some things are true, when they are not. The mind is ruled by psychological biases. “ People will believe a lie because they want it to be true or because they're afraid it might be true. hardcover editions unless otherwise stated. In the sections below which explain them in more detail, all pages given are from the U.S.
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