I have faith in?

boo3000

If a tree falls in the woods and lands on a politician.......
I'm taking an estimation an awful lot of people here have lost belief in politicians and Irish politics, but what do we have faith in? This won't be a very scientific poll, but who do we believe is doing a good job and actually contributes something to Irish life rather than just looking after their own self-interests? Do any of our institutions? or am I being overly pessimistic by even asking? I've included the private sector here, not that it's expected to be socially motivated but is it functioning well? I'm trying for a state of the nation that isn't just the economy or politicians.

John Doe1

The orange instituton

The King of Moo

I have faith in Johnny Giles. Honesty of effort counts more than anything else for me.

Bell Butter

GOD.

Diego Maradona

Karma

smash

boo3000 wrote: »

If a tree falls in the woods and land on a politician.......

If a fat person falls in the woods and there's no one around to see it, do the trees laugh?

how awesome i am

frozenfrozen

I have faith in money. yes those pieces of paper are worth that car.

M cebee

dept. of social protection

Micky Dolenz

Myself

Sarky

I believe in Harvey Dent.

Schism

I've a feeling none of the above is going to win in a landslide.

Bell Butter

There's no GOD option, the church are **** and I hate organised religion but there needs to be a GOD option

cloud493

Sarky wrote: »

I believe in Harvey Dent.

Yeah, nice slogan Harvey.

holystungun9

DOG end mi disleksia talbets.

boo3000

I know that a lot of people believe in God but im looking particularly for social institutions here. I could have also included me, my friends and family, the goodness of humanity etc.

Schism

Sarky wrote: »

I believe in Harvey Dent.

And what looks like Skeletor too, if your avatar is anything to go by!

Aenaes

As the great philosopher/social thinker Tony Montana said, "I trust me."

Brilliant documentary made about him a few years ago.

Lawrence1895

(X) Myself :cool:

Where To

YOU!

Duffman K

the ability of Irish goverments to continuously fcuk up and the ability of the Irish people to complain about it.

Laura_lolly87

Could the church option not be religion? I have faith in my religion which is not the RCC.

sheesh

gravity.

boo3000

It's the church as social institution not in terms of personal belief, you could say i put in the gardai, why not the fire brigade? Im going for what would be generally accepted as a major social force. Why the RC church is accepted as, or is, a major social force in irish life above others is probably beyond this thread, sorry!

Kylo Ren

I have faith in me never being able to complete those Animal Bar puzzles.

Bastards the lot of them!

Pottler

Apparently, if a tree falls in the woods and there's noone around to hear it, it makes no sound, just moves some air a bit as sound is the function of air movements pressing on an eardrum - without the eardrum there is no sound. Faith? err, not sure. Faith that they will do what exactly?

Captain Darling

Jebus.

I_smell_fear

But... ya gotta have faith

boo3000

Pottler, what about a dog's eardrum, that part of it could go on forever! For your other question I just mean do we trust them, are they doing good, or trying to, or just me feiners?

dark crystal

I have pretty good faith in our education system.

We have one of the highest rates of literacy in the world at 99% and college enrollments are up year on year.

It's not all perfect, but I believe Irish children (and adults) are able to avail of a great education in this country.

flutterflye

I know not every body has got a body like me.

Aenaes

Pottler wrote: »

Apparently, if a tree falls in the woods and there's noone around to hear it, it makes no sound, just moves some air a bit as sound is the function of air movements pressing on an eardrum - without the eardrum there is no sound. Faith? err, not sure. Faith that they will do what exactly?

So leaving a tape recorder to capture the sound won't work?

Always hated that tree falling thing.

View

I have faith in politics to represent us in all our dysfunctionality and incoherent inconsistencies. :-)

As the saying goes - In a democracy, an electorate gets the politicians they deserve....

af_thefragile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu3VTngm1F0

Shryke

I believe in a thing called love, just listen to the rhythm of my heart.

Cookie_Monster

I have trust in the fact that the Church will do whatever it wants to further it's own agenda(s) at the expense of everyone else, does that count?

I_smell_fear

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

I have trust in the fact that the Church will do whatever it wants to further it's own agenda(s) at the expense of everyone else, does that count?

Do I detect a hint of cinnamon and sarcasm..??

Cookie_Monster

I_smell_fear wrote: »

Do I detect a hint of cinnamon and sarcasm..??

maybe some cinnamon...

cocoshovel

I actually have faith in the health system. Despite what some think, we do have great medical care here. (Boohoo, you had to wait 8 hours). If you can afford it, well thats a different story. I think people expect too much of it.

uch

I Have faith in Mustard!, never lets me down,,,


oh and where's the " Stick it up your Hole " option in the Poll?

humbert

Having been in an accident recently my faith in the health system is an an all time high. The admin people are spectacularly bad but the front line people were amazing. Friendly, professional, efficient and busy as hell.

The gardai on the other had have been the most work-shy unprofessional, and at times quite thugish, collection of absolute wasters I've encountered personally(as in, first hand).