How sure are you of your beliefs?

Discussion in 'Philosophy and Religion' started by MyLee Jones, Oct 1, 2012.

  1. anthrax

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    I live by my faith, I cannot deny Him, so if you must, if you can, pull the trigger. Praise be to God.
     
  2. Meliai

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    I believe that humans are too limited in knowledge to know anything for sure.

    I'm not willing to die in the name of agnosticism, that's silly. Ill be whatever you want me to be if you're pointing a gun at me.
     
  3. verminous_plague

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    Nobody truly knows what happens when you die. But you can be sure of something because you believe it or have studied it for a while. There may not be proof but you can be mostly sure or have a good hunch. As far as an afterlife, you just hope there is one that is relatively pleasant. Nobody wants to go to hell that's for sure. But if you believe in heaven you also believe in hell so. I believe in other dimensions and parallel universes living close to our world. Science is beginning to prove that too. there is more to it all then humans evolved from a monkey. way more to it. but it's not for us to know fully until we die. it's the last mystery to life, what happens when we die? but i do believe things will be crystal clear afterwards and there will be reason for all the seemingly irrational parts to our life.
     
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    Life goes on. Not for the dead but for the living. Death then is not a momentous occasion to life, i.e., it doesn't matter. How we live evidently is of great concern. I am grateful that we do live.
     
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  6. scratcho

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    Discretion is the better part of valor. Say anything to live so that you can live to fight another day. Then sneak back and take care of business.

    My beliefs are mine ,but they don't matter too much. Only to me and my family,I suppose.
     
  7. themnax

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    well i'm pretty much sure that what people pretend to know, outside of science, (which doesn't claim any conclusion to be absolute and final, even if it turns out eventually to be. and there are endless logical reasons for this) is people pretending. i'm equally even more certain, that there is more that is not known, then everything in the universe capable of knowing it, put together, ever can or will know all of.

    these things i see no real reason to doubt what so ever. as for something invisible giving great hugs, well i've been hugged by this, so that part is very near impossible to deny too.

    so as long as i confine my belief to knowing that there is much that is not known, i see no reason not to feel completely confident of THAT.

    but of course i don't confine my beliefs only to that, but it is really still at the core of them.

    you know, i've felt things and seen things, and i don't mean under the influence of substances either, i gave up have much expectations from that quarter a long time ago. recognizing that my speculations based upon my experiences are still speculations, the are none the less, for the most part reasonable ones. and more so then those of more familiar name brands of belief, such as major religions. or even major forms of minor ones.
     
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    Reason and logic are my allies while faith is my enemy.
     

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