do you have enough faith that your car will start when you try to start it? if not why try?
2009-05-19T01:19:33Z
DO YOU LIKE THR WORD TRUST BETTER ? IF YOU GET SICK , AND YOU GO TO THE DOC. DO YOU TRUST HIM ENOUGH TO DO WHAT HE SAYS ? IF YOU TAKE YOU CAR TO BE CHECKED OUT DO YOU TRUST THE ONE WHO CHECKED IT OUT TO GET BACK IN IT AND TAKE OFF DRIVING ? THIS THING THAT YOU WOULD TRUST IS ALSO FAITH . YOU HAVE SOME FAITH IN THE DOC. YOU HAVE SOME FAITH IN THE AUTO TECH. STOP RUNNING FROM THIS WORD FAITH AND ANSWER THE QUESTION.
1ofU2009-05-16T18:02:46Z
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You've got that backwards. You don't need to try if you have faith. If you don't have faith, you won't know if it will start unless you try.
I have a reasonable expectation that my car will start when I turn the key in the ignition.
A reasonable expectation based on the fact that it has done so so many times in the past.
Now if I had faith in a god or gods, I would bypass the whole key-ignition part and just pray that the car would start. I think we both know how that would end up. Didn't really think this question through, did you?
It not a question of faith. It's a question of experience. It ran fine the last time I drove it. Nothing has happened that I am aware of that would prevent it from starting the next time I go out.
Because based on experience, my car has a high percentage of reliability in starting when I turn the key. And I need to perform this ritual to get to work.
This is in marked contrast with my previous vehicle, which had a very poor record in terms of actually starting when I turned the magic key. With it, I regularly had to perform additional rituals, up to and including percussive maintenance with a hammer on the starter to get it to work.
That's one of the reasons that particular vehicle was sent to the junk heap.