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Snoogans775	Date: January 29, 2005 @ 10:31 PM well here's a conflict, the phone, the phone scares us when it rings, becuase it represents possiblility, the fact! that we doubt that we will enjoy the vocal company of our mystery interrogator. So fear, is built from doubt, and Decartes, in all unbalanced truth, stated that "I think therefore I am", he also wrote that thinking is doubting, so, "I doubt therefore I am" and the only thing one can be sure about is that one doubts. Doubt creates fear. Fear leaves us easily saddened by the world. Which we have no defense against. Doubt leaves us weak. The opposite of doubt, is belief. 1. Belief leaves us full of bliss. 2. I think, therefore I suffer. 3. Belief is only a word, and the meaning it attempts to create can not be perceived through language, so emotion may be the key, what do you think the key to true belief is?
JackalSlayer	Date: February 21, 2005 @ 11:35 AM I think the true key to belief is probably ignorance. Those who aren't very intelligent will probably not worry about consequences or something acting out of contingency, so they will be more likely to believe in something that is risky. Those that are intelligent think about the possibilities, and are less likely to believe in something that is risky. Therefore, if you don't think much, it's not that hard to believe in things.
figfarmer	Date: February 21, 2005 @ 3:53 PM The key to true believe is being brainwashed by someone who knows what they're doing.
Hatsy	Date: March 25, 2005 @ 6:52 PM Belief in anything is possible...finding reasons to believe is achievable but proof that it is right is the tricky one... - The phone creating doubt is a definite possiblity! Who could it be? I agree ignorance is bliss
leplume	Date: March 26, 2005 @ 12:09 AM I can't agree with jackalslayer. Belief is not ignorance. I think belief transcends any intelligence or thought process that would analyze rather than act. Belief is already knowing the possibilties - postive and negative - and contiuing on knowing that you will accept whatever the outcome. I also can't agree that ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is dangerous. A complete lack of knowledge doesn't lead one to bliss, it keeps one stationary and unable to move at all. I think the key to belief is the understanding we are powerless to completely control the outcome and the willingness to take the plunge anyway.
Woof	Date: March 26, 2005 @ 4:00 AM Belief is easy to come by. Maybe the phone doesn't really ring at all. Maybe you only hear it ring, because you believe it. We believe all of the time, and those beliefs can be horribly off the mark, or they can be incredibly accurate. We wait for a taxi, because we've called for one, and believe one will arrive. We go to sleep at night believing that we'll wake up again, or we wouldn't be able to sleep at all. We sort of believe we'll die... someday... but we certainly don't believe that day is going to be tomorrow! We trust our perceptions, and believe that what we touch is real. We believe that the food we eat won't make us sick (or else we wouldn't eat it in the first place), and we believe that what we type in these little boxes will appear on other peoples' computers. All of these things might be real, or might not be. Like opinions, everybody has a set of beliefs, which is pretty much equal to saying that everybody has a philosophy. The tricky business here, is determining which beliefs are true or false. Toes reality, as we know it, actually exist? Or are we living in some kind of matrix? There are those who believe that, too... To venture farther into that territory can be madness, and so to avoid that, we trust our judgment, our philosophy, and our beliefs. IMHO, it is when we doubt that trust, that we become frightened, and I think that's a very accurate statement up there, that doubt and fear have a very close relationship. The old saying that we fear the unknown seems fairly accurate as well. When the phone rings, it's not the ring that causes fear, it's the not knowing who or what's on the other end of the line. Who is calling me? Is it bad news? Has somebody close to me died? Will my carefully made plans for the day collapse because of some new responsibility thrust upon me? Until we actually pick up the telephone and find out what the message is, the ring itself represents all of these possibilities, and then some. My point is, that truth is what one needs to seek. True truth. That's much harder to come by, than true belief. Thanks for an excellent topic!
Woof	Date: March 26, 2005 @ 4:02 AM Err... that's "Does", not "Toes". Sheesh! Well... I believed I typed it correctly
IvoryKeys	Date: March 29, 2005 @ 10:49 PM Belief is understanding without evidence

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