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What if

Dec 07, 2004 02:05

What is belief ( Read more... )

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airborneranger December 7 2004, 14:30:29 UTC

Smartass answer: If belief is gone, its disbelief then.

\Dis*be*lief"\, n. The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.

But I'm guessing you are going on a deeper scale than that. What are you choosing not to believe?

Btw, those emails almost had me crying, I was laughing so frickin' hard.

wizardprs December 7 2004, 20:16:19 UTC

Let me assure you I meant every word of every one of them
haha

hmmm autoharmony December 7 2004, 15:51:30 UTC

I definitely agree that believing something is a decision that you make, however I think I want to take it a litte further. I think that a belief may be more than just deciding that something is true, I think it also means acting in accordance with that belief. If I believe that smoking is going to kill me, I'm not going to go smoke a cigarette. However, I can still smoke a cigarette and know that it is going to hurt my body, I'm just choosing to put that knowledge aside for a moment. There's a difference in knowing and believing. A belief is more than knowledge. A person doesn't compromise his beliefs and doesn't live outside of them. I would say that if you were to decide that everything you've been taught up to this point or certain things that you had been taught were not true, and that you didn't want to believe it anymore, then perhaps you never believed it in the first place. The reason I say this is because I think that it would take a great amount of conviction and courage to decide that something you had been taught ( ... )

Re: hmmm airborneranger December 7 2004, 16:00:10 UTC

Referring the last part of you reply, the only time I have had beliefs destroyed were when I was a child. Namely, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, tooth fairy....stories that our society teaches to young children who, with their innocence and gullibility(sp?), believe them 100%. When I found out the truth(by actually seeing my parents place the presents, etc), it sucked. Its the destruction of an illusion that was a blanket over the real world.

belimshes December 7 2004, 21:06:13 UTC

Well,

I believe that I want a sandwich........ So, maybe I'll go put one together.

We'll talk more later 'bout it coastguy17 December 11 2004, 05:21:46 UTC

We should have a chit-chat on belief when we have our life and death discussion. I believe that beliefs can change. Everyday we're presented with new facts and experiences that teach us a little more. When we were all kids, we believed we'd grow up to be successful. Does that mean that if we decide in high school to drop out, be a bum, and wind up in a jail cell that we never really believed it in the first place? Although beliefs are generally concrete feelings, ideas, and perspectives, they do change. As you grow up, it's healthy to question your beliefs. If there is no basis behind a belief other than the idea that you've always believed it, then why believe it?