Is seeing really believing?

Question

I'm just wondering do you need to see it to believe it? or just hear or read it?

Answer 1

i don't know. i dropped a lot of acid in my twenties and i'm not sure i don't believe the experiences i saw weren't real. i think all reality is subjective. in other words, reality is realative. the table in your kitchen is made up of molecules you can't see with the naked eye, but they are there. i think in the light of quantum physics, we are going to find out that this reality we all share
exists soley because we agree upon it. i think kids would be my biggest example. we all remember the things we saw that were real, that parents never believed in. only after years of telling us it didn't exist, did we believe it didn't anymore.

on that note, does hearing or seeing something make it real? a dog whistle can only be heard by animals with the same keen ability as dogs. we don't hear it, yet it exists. we all know that you can print lies, so the written word is no more reliable than anything else.

if a tree falls in the forrest, and no one is there, does it make a sound? this age old question of philosophers has been mangled for centuries. it all depends on the definition of sound (as it applies to the interpreter). if you define sound with the idea that someone has to be able to hear it, for sound to exist, then the tree makes no sound. if your definition of sound is that it exists separately of reception, then yes. so once again, reality is subjective to the person, and their interpretation of definition.

Answer 2

Your ability to read about and hear about is far greater than your ability to see, because seeing requires you to go to the place where the thing is happening. So, many times we end up making decitions based on belief supported by what we heard or read by then even though we haven't seen.

Answer 3

It all depends on what it is. Seeing helps belief, but we all know our eyes can be tricked If you only hear, are you sure? If you only read, what is the author trying to sell? If you only see, did you see it right or where you tricked? Best bet is to have the grain of salt handy and take the path you belief is most likely right.

Answer 4

When it comes to believing, I'm from Missouri five times over.

I have to see it several times. It must make 'sense' in a context that I already accept. It's driver license photo must match its face, and the age match the person in front of me.

There are no prizes being handed out anywhere for gullibility.

Answer 5

It depends. Some things I can believe when I read about them or hear about them, but other things I have to see for myself.

Answer 6

No, if you see something it becomes knowing rather than believing. But if you hear of something and know it in your heart to be real then that's believing. And the longer you believe in it the more real it becomes to you.

Answer 7

Nope, seeing does not equal believing.

We believe in atoms after all, but not too many of us have seen them. (And I must admit I believed they were there years before I saw my first Scanning Tunneling Microscope, or the 300kV TEM )

And when you see an optical illusion, or magic trick, you see it and don't believe it.

Therefore seeing is not believing.

Answer 8

If you are like Thomas the doubter you have to see. I don't have to see to believe. I know that sometime what we see is a trick of the eye, for example magic tricks seem real, but are simply tricks--deception. We need to know what we stand for or we stand for nothing.

Answer 9

ness evidently it's not neccessary to beleive it. That's why so many people beleive in ghost, luck, omens, forecast, future tellling. The beast example is the spiritualworld as billions worldwide beleive in gods, jesus, jehovah, ect and no one has (or no one living) seen either and there is no evidence of either. Except for books such as the bible, koran old goatskin with writings on them ect.
People beleive in UFOs and bigfoot because just like god they want it to be there. People feel they have to beleive in soemthing and expand their thoughts to include them as real with out proof.

Answer 10

Only, in the last 5 to 10 years I have come to feel it's reality.

Answer 11

Not realy. Think about the deepest things that you trust and its not because of what you can see. Does a mother love the baby only when she can see it?