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Post by hopemax on Dec 14, 2024 18:19:50 GMT
I'm trying to think if I believe in anything that isn't proven... Life elsewhere in the universe? Lots of religious takes, but given the world today people are having a hard time believing in things that have been proven. Are vaccines helpful or poison? Is the earth a sphere or not? Does the HIV virus cause AIDS? Germ theory? So I find the general question more interesting than at first glance Science is being rejected right and left because it's too abstract for most people to understand on their own. Plus, the number of bad actors is increasing, so if you know there are bad science takes being pedaled, how can a person be sure they believe in all the good science takes? Cynicism = people rejecting everything, both correct and wrong, and that seems to be on the rise. |
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Dec 14, 2024 19:15:03 GMT
What gar said: Belief in anything that isn’t proven. We do live in the physical realm run by our physical senses. Do you believe there is anything beyond that? Not necessarily beyond as in after. It reminds me of the spectrum of color. Before the red and after the violet. True. But, of course, you can believe in fact and what is proven. It’s a fact, and a pretty spectacular one, that there is a million different universes out there. With all that unexplored and explored universes -it is literally endless what could or is happening out there. Or happening around me, here standing on a planet. I can appreciate all of that unknown. Or the possibilities associated with it. Will I see a god or my dead relatives when I pass ? That is a mystery. And to think it will happen is to have hope that it will. I was asking dd this yesterday who is now 22. If aligning with science and facts is a belief or is an understanding? Belief to me sounds like something you come to know out of a knowing or faith without it being explained. It sounds like the different hemispheres of the brain. The right side and left side. Imagination and logic. Imagination can sound like something made up like it doesn’t exist. Especially when it’s trying to be understood logically. It can also be put into form, but probably not from its original source. Why do you think there’s a side of the brain that is created for imagination? The left brain is for educational knowledge and understanding. What we learn out here. The right brain is for a knowing and understanding beyond that. My belief is they are meant to be in balance and work together in some way. |
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Post by Layce on Dec 14, 2024 19:19:14 GMT
That’s not true, Lesley. You misunderstood. I.. Look, all I’m saying is, something like that.. that there is plenty of evidence to show that the 2020 Election was decisive, fair, not stollen (lol). Yet, these election deniers insist.
There is a God and the evidence is plentiful. If you don’t want to believe it, then don’t. I can’t keep up with all this back and forth.
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Post by MichyM on Dec 14, 2024 19:41:52 GMT
That’s not true, Lesley. You misunderstood. I.. Look, all I’m saying is, something like that.. that there is plenty of evidence to show that the 2020 Election was decisive, fair, not stollen (lol). Yet, these election deniers insist. There is a God and the evidence is plentiful. If you don’t want to believe it, then don’t. I can’t keep up with all this back and forth. While this has been *stolen* from the web, I think it is apropos: "Ultimately, the question of God’s existence remains a matter of faith, philosophy, and personal conviction."If you're up to it, please share your evidence that there is it fact a G-d. Thanks. |
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Post by gar on Dec 14, 2024 19:48:01 GMT
There is a God and the evidence is plentiful. If you don’t want to believe it, then don’t. . I’m sorry but that’s patently ridiculous! Your personal belief is just that…belief…you are the one choosing to believe in the absence of evidence, not the reverse. |
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Dec 14, 2024 19:57:14 GMT
That’s not true, Lesley. You misunderstood. I.. Look, all I’m saying is, something like that.. that there is plenty of evidence to show that the 2020 Election was decisive, fair, not stollen (lol). Yet, these election deniers insist. There is a God and the evidence is plentiful. If you don’t want to believe it, then don’t. I can’t keep up with all this back and forth. While this has been *stolen* from the web, I think it is apropos: "Ultimately, the question of God’s existence remains a matter of faith, philosophy, and personal conviction."If you're up to it, please share your evidence that there is it fact a G-d. Thanks. I know this wasn’t asked to me but I just want to say that I believe no evidence can show that anything beyond this physical realm can be proven to exist, and I absolutely love that. |
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Post by jill8909 on Dec 15, 2024 6:07:18 GMT
don't understand the question. what would it take for me to believe in something/anything? depends on the thing
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Dec 15, 2024 7:07:30 GMT
don't understand the question. what would it take for me to believe in something/anything? depends on the thing Anything that can’t be proven. Something that you want to believe in but can’t. What would it take to do so? |
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