You know like god, devil, heaven, hell, ghosts, spirits, etc.
2006-09-08 05:35:05 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Let's find out....
I'm thinking about the big bag of money sitting on the floor next to me....
Nope. Guess it's back to work...
2006-09-08 05:37:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe so, yes. I believe that every god with a believer exists, and only the gods that one subscribes to affect that person. So your god and your hell cannot affect me, because I do not subscribe to them as a follower. My beliefs lack the notion of a hell.
Mind you, just because I believe it doesn't mean that I think there's proof! I believe that everything you can conceive exists on some plane of existence, because after all, there are infinitely many universes with infinitely many possibilities. It stands to reason that what you imagined exists in one of them.
2006-09-08 12:40:27 · answer #2 · answered by fiveshiftone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, truth is based solely on reality. I don't think your disbeleif will make real things not exist either. Otherwise, we would have a bunch of perverts walking around not believing in clothes. You have some mighty presumtions. were you there when several hundred jews saw jesus, risen from the dead, be disowned by their families for beleiving what they saw with their own eyes, and sometimes suffer persecution to the death rather than admitting they were lying. sounds to me like they were pretty convinced of what they saw first hand.
2006-09-08 12:50:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. Of course we can think about things that exist and they still exist. The thought we had exists. Just because we can't see something does not mean that it doesn't exist. I can't see (most) of the air I breathe, but it exists, or else I wouldn't. Is there more to your point, or question than what I am seeing? Whatever you are thinking about obviously exists.
2006-09-08 12:45:48 · answer #4 · answered by wannaknow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not at all. There was a time in the distant past that people thought IF they could imagine it, it existed..this gave rise to many fabled monsters, life forms, etc. that do not , nor ever did exist. Because I imagine I have a Starbucks coffee on my desk does NOT put one there, trust me on that one. Good luck
2006-09-08 12:39:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as long as people have thoughts, people will do anything in their power to make them possible. people will be here for a while so they will have time to interpret these thoughts and either create them (dreams into reality) or prove them (ghosts, spirits, etc) its just a part of human nature, to exceed the limits that have been set.
2006-09-08 12:41:10 · answer #6 · answered by † ¯|¯igerz ßlood † 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An idea is something you can possess and share, sort of like a digital file stored on a hard drive.
So I would say yes, it does exist if only in your mind.
2006-09-08 12:40:29 · answer #7 · answered by lane.montgomery 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is a heavean or hell, humankind probably thought it up. I forget the name of the movie, but the more of similar thoughts from people out there, the more likely it will happen.
2006-09-08 12:43:35 · answer #8 · answered by Suze 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if the person doing the thinking has some groovey, but dangerous power to do so.
2006-09-08 12:42:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...Thinking about only realistic things means it exist...eg thinking about a fairy doesn't mean they exist...You get me?
Then who decides what is realistic?....Society and culture... And unless you can prove to society what ever you're thinking about truly exist...it doesn't.
2006-09-08 12:41:08 · answer #10 · answered by Labo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋