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By Jack Joseph Smith
As thought, As Adventure
No matter of its form,
No matter of its fear,
Believing in God is
the joyess point; how
it comes down, gets
tough
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This fragment reads like a hard, compressed note on belief, fear, and how conviction toughens as it comes down into lived experience.
The corrected line `Believing in God is / the joyess point` changes the page's tone. It no longer sounds mainly defeated or hopeless; instead it reads like a severe statement that belief becomes difficult, embodied, and exposed once it descends from abstraction.
A short codicil to Religion. As thought, as adventure — no matter of its form, no matter of its fear. Believing in God is the joyess point: how it comes down, gets tough. A one-sentence toughening of the longer page before, where belief has to survive its own descent.