wich one? a study on personal beliefs?
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i will push neither because it will not resolve the situition
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UNDERSTANDING OTHERS THROUGH SELF\n\nTell me if this suits as the statement or not...
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age old question my friend =)\n\ni beleive  each of us has a destiny relative to perception.\nwhat we see as right/wrong is based on past experiences and relationships\n\nto go forward..we must go back
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I agree with mainwoolly (and not for the first time); I suspect that nonsensical beliefs of all kinds actually have a real-world, real-time effect, on the human mind if nothing else.\n\nWe all know people who never make a decision without first performing a tarot card reading, or faithfully check their horoscopes every day, or whatever.  They simply do not hear you when you point out that it's a pile, no, a truckload, nay, a Matterhorn of horse-hockey.  These same people retain enough sense to enable them to pass their drivers' license tests; to get and hold jobs; to raise children who stay out of prison (the majority of them, at any rate).  \n\nAnd they never notice the contradiction, they never notice that their own brains are divided against them.  It's like walking around with a big ole ugly-a$$ nine-hundred-pound gorilla perched on your shoulder.  I've never studied psychology so I can't understand how or why this works for anyone; but apparently it does.\n\nHow much might more have been accomplished already if so many of us weren't permitting ourselves to be held back in this way?  It doesn't bear thinking about, really.
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I have studied most if not all, beliefs. I have taken away a little of them all, most have the same core foundation, just the names and symbolic differ, but never would i follow that is against my beliefs. I follow no one, but the ONE.\n\n                         I AM
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Your beliefs are more important than the beliefs of people on this website.  \n\nYou may find this book helpful: "The Biology of Belief".  It is written by Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.  Dr. Lipton is a cell biologist and former professor at Stanford Medical School.\n\nHere is a quote from the cover: "Stunning new scientific discoveries about the biochemical effects of the brain's functioning show that all the cells of your body are affected by your thoughts.  The author, a renowned cell biologist, describes the precise molecular pathways through which this occurs."\n\nThe book is available at Amazon.com\n\nBest wishes and good luck.
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Try beliefnet.com.  It has a test that will tell you what belief system you are closest to.  From there, you can search the net for info to see if it fits your life.  It's a unbiased third party, unlike any person could be.
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knowing & believing (thinking you know)
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Knowledge of the Self.
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Character is the result of your thinking.\nThinking is effected by your belief.\nBelief is effected by the books you read and follow.
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html\n\nQuiz that will ask numerous questions and the relative importance to you of each issue, and return results of what religions your current beliefs are most in sync with.
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I have looked for and found personal experience with the spiritual world. I was raised Christian, but found the dogma and blind faith to be not enough. I got into witchcraft and formed a relationship with ancient Germanic dieties. I can say from personal experience that spirituality is real and not just all about blind faith and social conformity. Something is there, but it conforms to your expectations so its something that science can easily dismiss as fantasy. I read that some recent study on particle physics showed that some particles can 'pick up' on the expectations of the researchers and thus ruin an experiment by always created the 'desired results'. \nReligeon is a social contruct for the purpose of explaining the unexplainable to many other people who have not directly witnessed the original events or situations. Spirituality, on the other hand, is an innate and highly individual part of each human's psyche. You could try an experiement on this. Choose an ancient god or goddess, look up their associations, create an altar to Him/Her, and pray to them regularly for a specific thing and see if it happens. Dietal associations are things like colors, flowers, stones, metals, incense, objects, animals and other stuff that are representative of that diety. Praying has several parts. Giving of adoration, like saying a flowery speach about he good things you admire about the diety (try to mean some of it). Petitioning is the part where you ask the diety to help you do something, bring something to you, or cause something to happen. Thanksgiving is at the end and its when you thank the diety for its attention.\nPersonal experience is not very scientific and it generally cant be reproduced for another person it exactly the same way with the same results. Religeon is the attempt to replicate the spiritual experience for others. Thats the nature of the spiritual.
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please modify your question and add a study hypothesis of what
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What study do you have that proves this?
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It depends on your beliefs.
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I read Blink too, so I've seen the study you mean. You're right, it is definitely an exercise in introspection. Thanks for your post. I don't know what the other girl is talking about. Maybe we missed something in the rules?
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After reading the article you linked to I can only say that one would probably need to read the research to really understand where the study is coming from. I really have to challenge some of the assumptions that are made such as Britain being a secular society and US being a religious one. My personal experience is exactly the opposite so I wonder what they based that assumption on?\n\nUntil I know exactly how they measured what societies are religions and what are not it is impossible to comment on their conclusions. But one thing I can say is that nowhere in the article do them mention any native religions or non-western ones so that would be a bias that invalidates the study anyway.\n\nNeed to read more on this.\n\nPeace and Blessings,\n\nSalim