How comfortable are you in believing something you will never undertand or comprehend???
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Blessed is he who has not seen and yet believes!\n\nYou pour yourself a pitcher of water.  To make this pitcher of water, you make ice water dyed yellow, boiling water died blue, and clear room temperature water.  \n\nThe blue water goes in first.  Then carefully, tilting the pitcher, pour the clear water down one side.  Then, still tilting, pour in the icewater.  You will only have a couple of minutes to observe.  \n\nIf you look at things through the pitcher sideways, parts are normal, parts are yellow and parts are blue.  If you pick it up and look through the top or bottom, everything is green.  It is still only one pitcher of water, yet depending on how you look at it, things seem different, but yet remain the same.  That is about as close as our finite minds will ever come in this lifetime to comprehending an infinite God.
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I do believe truth has nothing to fear from investigation.\nI have a belief of my own, my faith.  where did it come from. \nWell it wasn't something my parents passed on to me because i left that belief system.. \nI searched for something for at least a good 10 years.\ni followed what was natural to me. what i felt worked when i tried it.\nafter so long trying things reading different peoples ideas i came up with my own views. \nThis sort of fits in with a belief system already out there. Also called Natures Religion. as its nature based. \nI believe i test my own thoughts and ideas.. (only to make sure I'm going going completely mad. most of the time.).\nWhere i see some follow there belief blindly not seeing reason or knowing what is good or bad. "its for the faith" or " its for god" .\nQuestioning brings our minds back from the clouds and hopefully gives us the grounding we need to answer them. \n\nJust my thoughts. \nBlessings ALD
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It depends, ok here one thing u can add to all the other responses. Do u believe in sixth sense or nor.\nI dont.
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I wish I could answer that with a Full Yes or a Full No but the thing is... I dont know! I chose to Believe in Good, and  I Chose to believe with my Heart. I know those are 2 things that have never let me down before. I wont believe everything I hear, or see because my heart, soul and spirit controls me... If its something that God himself wouldnt do or believe then nor would I.... That may sound stupid but its the best I can answer... Im sorry:(
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Yes. Not all of it is true (factual, historical), not all of it is false (fictional, mythical).\n\nCan you handle the truth? or the falsity?
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You are thinking how unlikely someone is going to be able to guess what you are thinking
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Absolutely not.\n\n"i" see everything. "i" can tell "You" are a tad clueless but perhaps "You" need to tap into "Your" senses a little more to get it.\n \naww hell, who am "i" kidding..... "i" dunno\n=)~
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I can definitely listen without judging. But do I feel safe? I feel .......uninformed. What scares me is that others will speak of things I know so little about. If they stop and explain to me about aspects of the religion I'm not familiar with, I know I would feel so open and so much more comfortable to intelligently discuss beliefs. It is my fear that people will mistake my lack of knowledge for ignorance and judgement against other religions. In truth.....it is me reaching out saying........."show me." If everyone can have tolerance for our differences, for our beliefs and for our levels of knowledge, religious discussions could be and would be amazingly interesting.
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do you believe yourself?
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Yes definitely.  I seriously never believed in it until I met my husband.
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Do you really believe in that crap?
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Are you willing to say that ignorance IS bliss?
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Hi Brenda--let's put it this way: "Most" people who haven't got it don't believe in it.  I've no choice since I've got it.  Sometimes I wish that I didn't. There are various "categories"--one that is often painful to me, is the non-intellectual floating senses about someone, often at great distances, of "concern." I'm always COMPELLED to find this person; for some reason that seems almost serendipity, I do, & discover (without exception) either that they have died, or are in a very tenuous health/emotional situation. In the latter case I do "help" by simply listening, or being able to provide suggestions. I find this quite draining, however. Precognition is different in that I've prevented potentially fatal incidents, or been able to "warn" someone & direct them in ways that preclude what would have been a disaster. Not always! but often. I'll also feel a good "energy" & discover that all my friends are experiencing positive things & gaining insights. My "night" dreams, (there are many different kinds of dreams also), have given me profound messages. I do not have the single psychic ability my mother had. She knew the instant of someone's death. I'll never forget her running out into the freezing Wisconsin Winter night because she heard her brother calling her. We lived in a very rural area, no phone. The following day, my aunt drove out from the city to tell her he had died, & it was at the precise time she heard him. (She had many more experiences like this.) I've had many, many more, but shan't belabour them here. People who know me well have relied on me for the things that I "see" & sense.  Some people will scoff at the very idea of psychic abilities, just as they do about astrology, (I can perceive the 3 major signs in a stranger the moment I meet them, although I can't always be specific of "how" I do this). To the few people who "hassle" me--the disbelievers--I simply say that they aren't "required" to believe, & will NEVER get into a debate with them. I KNOW that I'm psychic, & just used these few rather general examples. I hope no one "jokes" about your question, yet I rather think that SOMEONE will. YOU know what you are, & that's truly all that counts, isn't it?\n\n*** Just looked at your answers. "Amy" must know something about you that I don't; your question asked what others believed, not to tell you if you are. But ThatLady made me aware I hadn't mentioned that I'm only a "receiver." No further comments needed....
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I would not say we don't have a clue.\nBut I will say we do not know everything and wont ever know everything.\nI think if most believers didn't try to push there beliefs down other peoples throat's we would all live better and get along better.\nI never claim to know everything.\nI know what I believe and don't believe but I dont push it off on people and if someone ask I tell them but I dont think I should sit and preach.
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Yes. Skeptics are often as skeptical of themselves as they are of others. I speak from personal experience. I question everything - literally, EVERYTHING. My own personal thoughts are not exempt from this constant analysis.
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Well, that does sound fair. Heck, I'd be happy if the just quit trying to pass off beliefs as facts. \n\n“To believe in something is not the same as knowing something. Intrinsic to the concept of belief is (the) implication that there is an opposite to belief, disbelief. Not everyone will believe something is true, but all sane and rational people will acknowledge an observable fact.\n\nThe only way belief can be experienced is in the mind. Facts can be experienced both in the mind and by the senses...and what is more, unlike a mental hallucination, the sensory experience can be shared with others.\n\nIt is a common error of human beings to allow belief, to allow a mental construct accepted on faith, to become so important, so obsessive, that it is taken as the same thing as fact. Indeed, there are many emotional reasons why a person might be driven to do this, but it still remains that any belief is purely mental whatever it's origin, and the mind can be mistaken.\n\nThis means that all beliefs have as part of them an implied doubt. Facts cannot be doubted, they are observably real.\n\nWhen belief is assumed to be fact, when this mistake is made by a mind clouded by a motivation to assume belief as fact, that belief is considered beyond doubt, just as is a fact.\n\nBeliefs beyond doubt are inherently dangerous. They are dangerous because they are often acted upon as though they were facts, and the inherent weakness of this is that a belief is not a fact.\n\nBeliefs can be, and often are, wrong.” (Jennifer Diane Reitz)
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I am going to be completely serious with you\n\nPros: Truly believing in something is comforting, a built in support system of people who will be willing to help you, and the feeling that you are only living in a harsh and unfair world for a short period of time before you get to go to "heaven"\n\nCons: Limitations on what you can do of your own free will, Guilt, and of course people like Jerry Falwell