What do you believe?

I believe life is good, death is bad and altruism is the key to life longterm.

I believe humble simplicity pawns skillful arrogance although the later is amusing if not taken seriously.

 

Sorry i modded your post to exclude religion.
Religion stole faith and hangs on to it with a will. but faith is not of religion. it is a free word/concept. stolen in the eyes of the many to be of religion.
I. as an arbiter of reason take back faith for those who wish in not to be corrupted by stupid religious stories and abominations like heaven and hell and eternal life.

I think i speak for many who think the same.
Faith is what belief is based in.
Faith that we know what the *** we are basing our thoughts in.
Humans have a method.. it seems to work...

Occam

 

I pawn you boy. Skills rule. humble simplicity is for plants.
I pwn on CoDMw2 multi as well ...Tho running at max spec taxes the Gpu's and sli water cooling...hehe

occam

 

i agree with this statement but do you believe that nothing exist outside of our own experience after death? i mean, no experience after death on any level?

just for clarification

 

For my part, The full attention required to effectively deal with prescient contingency, renders the question moot. "Breakdowns come and breakdowns go.
What are you going to do about it, that's what I would like to know."

 

I believe my morning milk comes from cats.

 

the magic of reality is that it is immeasurably more diverse then any of us is even able to imagine, let alone does, and that it is not even the slightest bit obliged to resemble what anyone pretends to know.

this leaves more then enough wiggle room for all the gods, ghosts and invisible friends anyone could possibly hope for. still doesn't oblige them to look or act like what anyone tells anyone else though.

once we get past our own ego's wanting to know everything and how to control everything, it's actually more fun that way anyway.

even when we don't, it's still not up to us.

even if we pretend it is, we still don't have to pretend the same way it might look like everyone else expects each other to.

i think the strangeness wants to be loved more then feared.
wanting to be feared is too damd close to what evil is to be easily confused with well meaning loving commitment. at least it is for me.

at worst it is no worse then complete neutrality and indifference.
at best, for us anyway, it sometimes hugs and even, though a bit more rarely and somewhat erratically, helps out a bit once in a while.

 

I believe my morning milk comes from cats.

 

Still?

 

yeah, I figured the thread was worth reviving but I don't have any other beliefs, so

again with the catmilk

 

I can't relate to catmilk, but there are some things that I do believe that are important to me. By "believe" I mean acceptance of certain postulates with sufficient conviction to bet my life on them. I believe that belief per se is not a virtue and can be a vice if it resists or claims to trump rationality and science. I believe that all beliefs worthy of acceptance have to be consistent with logic, science, and the available evidence, and that all beliefs worth holding should be supported by substantial evidence--including personal experience, judgment and intuition. I believe in a process of inquiry that holds all beliefs tentatively, subjects all beliefs to critical evaluation in light of new arguments and evidence, prefers naturalistic to super-naturalistic explanations of things, and requires extraordinary evidence to back extraordinary claims. That and dog milk.

 

If I were in need of belief it would be in snake milk, as dogs and cats are universally evident.

 

What do you mean bet your life on them? Some would say they would be willing to die for their convictions. I would say I am willing to live my life according to principle without reservation.

 

I also believe in Occam's razor (both the principle and the person who started this thread), God, and any kind of milk you can name, except from mythical creatures.

 

To me belief is a symbol chosen to represent an unknown variable. You can choose such a symbol or not, however a human being cannot operate without faith.

 

What I mean is that I'm willing to make major life choices based on these beliefs and accept the consequences of being wrong. By choosing Christ, for example, I'm forgoing all kinds of sex and drug orgies, kiddie pron and videos of women having sex with animals, as well as opportunities to cheat widows and orphans out of their life savings, become a drug lord, get myself totally wasted and run over turtles in the street--all for the sake of a relationship with what might be an imaginary friend. Sounds like a good deal to me!

Yeah, I think I agree with that--as long as the faith is open to periodic reconsideration on the basis of new experience.

 

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To me,what I believe is only relevant to my learned prejudices and my faith is the knowledge that when I open my back door there will not be a gorilla standing there.

 

When I learned to drive I did so on the American highway. My grandfather would drive to a highway access and turn me loose. At high speed, cornering is not an automatic appreciation, the immediate tendency to begin turning too soon so my grandfather reminded me saying let the turn come to you first, so there was my first leap of faith. another difficulty on the turns is that oncoming traffic looks like it is coming right at you. This makes you very tentative and jerky. My grandfather said you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the road is going to do what he is supposed to. My driving became much more relaxed. My faith is like that. I assume there is order in the world that is generally benevolent.

 

Wise grandfather.