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This is the first of a series of threads I plan on doing in which I seek your counsel, the regulars and visitors of TOE quest. Please everyone offer your opinion as counsel to me, because it is extremely valuable for the evolution of the truth as well as for my health. Your opinion is valuable whether you believe I am someone who has discovered the TOE or whether you believe I'm a big fat liar. It does not matter either way for the purposes of this thread.

So the question of this thread is is faith important for those seeking enlightenment? This will obviously bring about an argument between religious and non-religious people, but I invite everyone to put spiritual distinctions and divisions aside and just consider the question from a purely reasonable standpoint.

The reason I ask this question is because I've been working under the assumption that faith is somehow important. I was under the impression that people should put their faith in someone who claims to be the TOE discoverer. I assume that the actual TOE discoverer would expect people to put faith in him, and he would then share the TOE and justify everyone's faith as a faithful response to them having offered it. If people will not offer faith, which is just another word for optimism, then the TOE discoverer would not feel compelled to show them the TOE.

Am I wrong for making this assumption? Perhaps it is everyone's right to not believe ANYTHING until it has been specifically spelled out to them and proven. Maybe we should not be expected to believe anything unless we have to or we have no other choice? Please help me, I need to know. if faith really is or is not important. The TOE discoverer it seems would have to act on faith, but maybe the people don't. Please let me know if I have messed up by assuming faith was important. If you think faith <i>is</i> important, please let me know that too. Thank you all so much.