Friday, July 10, 2026

"The WILL to BELIEVE"

                                                           I have yet to formulate a suitable definition for "Will" .   It's obvious that >Will< is also a guarantor of Effort, and when I suggest that it requires Effort to actualize Effort from where does this Energy reside besides in the location of Interest ?    /Will\ must be considered Instinctual, because of the "Will to Live" via the Instinct of Self-Preservation .   I still consider this THIS clumsy if not flat-out Awkward .   

                           We can ascribe the Force of Nature to Will, but there is scant comfort in that .   I'm hard-pressed to qualify Effort as a "Force of Nature" but it's there with all the rest of Cosmic Forces .   Unsettling, like, or sure .   

                             I turned to my HERO Dr. William James and his volume, THE WILL TO BELIEVE and other essays in popular philosophy in the hope of finding just one key sentence, but I put very little Effort in my search and found what is below to place in its stead :

                                    "Does not the recital of such a fight obstinately waged against such odds fill us with resolution against OUR petty powers of darkness, ---machine politicians, spoilsmen and the rest ?   Life is worth living, no matter what it bring, if only such combats may be carried to successful terminations and one's heel set on the tyrants throat ."

                                    I LOVE this.

                                     This is me .

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