If you tried really really hard to believe in something, would it become true for you?

Question

Like if you believe in magic, is it true for you cause you believe it. And it's not true for someone who doesn't believe it.
Or if you try really hard to believe in miracles, will a miracle happen to you?
Or is it just pure coincidence?
Your opinion please.

Answer 1

In quantum physics the theory goes that the past affects the present and the present affects the future...if that is so then the act of being affected gives the affected aspect a power over the cause...hence the future affects the present. so, the present as you know it was created in tune with the past and the future.

There have been studies that show that actually conceiving of an outcome actually affected the course of events...If you played the lottery and never thought of winning or actually thought you would never win, it would lessen the chance that you would in fact win.

In quantum physics, the benefitter does not need to be human or even alive...it could be a particle with the "expectation" of a certain result...if it is remotely possible, they find that it happens often.

so, yes..by quantum physics.

There is another one however...actually in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about this guy who wanted to fly. To do it all you have to do is, "just jump and try to not hit the ground"

Answer 2

If you believe really hard in aliens, does that mean aliens exist? If you believe really hard in an earth that is flat, does that mean it could be?

First of all, you have to define what a miracle is.

A standard definition of a miracle is "an intervention by God". Are you defining "a miracle" as winning the lottery? Or is that just being lucky?

Some say that they have miracles happening all around you right now. For example, some people believe the laugh of a child, watching a sunset, or just being alive is a miracle. Once we stop taking little things for granted, I think it's easy to see how life can be the greatest miracle of all.

Answer 3

In answer to the examples you give, I'd have to say no. That's like saying that if I believe hard enough that gravity doesn't exist, I would one day float off the earth into outer space. Once on the way to outer space I would have to quickly and accurately believe that I could exist without oxygen or I would implode.

If however, you are asking can you believe in a God you can't see physically, then yes, you can. Read Psalm 119.

Answer 4

Actually, I think if enough people believe in something, that thing can be made to exist. Essentially, it doesn't matter so much that such a thing be physically true for it to be virtually true.

For example, many people believe in God. There's no physical evidence for a god, but people live their lives as if His existence were certain. In this case, the physical reality is far less important than the virtual certainty which motivates people day-to-day.

If enough people believe, something can be made to exist from absolutely nothing at all. That is the mystery of consciousness.

Answer 5

you dream at night don't you?
ever heard of astral travel? witches?
all those are REAL. more real than this msg i am typing.
when u believe sometin, i might b unseen.
but it is there. that is the metaphysical or the spiritual.
just as we have the good and the bad in this world, out there exists demons and evil/foul creatures.
if u "believe" something, you are actually applying some unseen principle. just make sure you are with the good spirits, because its sure going to work out.
never trust in magic.
it works, but it is not of God.
God aint need no magic

Answer 6

Shakespeare addresses this difficulty in one of his history plays, Richard II (Act I, scene iii, lines 294-303). There is a dialogue between a father and a son. The son (Bolingbroke) has been exiled, banished from England. Bolingbroke's father, Gaunt, tells his son that he should change his attitude to the "banishment" (think of it as a "vacation" not as an "exile", not as a punishment). Bolingbroke completely rejects the "consolations of philosophy." Bolingbroke refuses to be consoled. Here's the dialogue:

Gaunt: Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure.
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Gaunt: All places that the eye of heaven visits / Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. / Teach thy necessity to reason thus: / There is no virtue like necessity. / Think not the king did banish thee, / But thou the king. Woe doth the heavier sit / Where it perceives it is but faintly borne. / Go, say I sent thee forth to purchase honor, / And not, the king exiled thee; or suppose / Devouring pestilence hangs in our air / And thou art flying to a fresher clime. / Look what they soul holds dear, imagine it / To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou comest. / Suppose the singing birds musicians, / The grass whereon thou treadest the presence strewed, / The flowers fair ladies,and thy steps no more / Than a delightful measure or a dance; / For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite / The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

Bolingbroke: O, who can hold a fire in his hand / By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? / Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite / By bare imagination of a feast? / Or wallow naked in December snow / By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! The apprehension of the good / Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore.

Answer 7

If I believe with my whole being that there is no such thing as gravity and I should be able to fly, would that make it true when I jumped of the Empire State building?

There are certain absolute truths that no amount of 'believing' can change. One's beliefs really only hold water when they are based on truth.

Answer 8

Are you talking about realitve truth or absolute truth?

If you are talking about realtive truth then it would be true for you because you believe in it. For example if you believe that a blue truck you saw was red and let's say that you are mistaken but you really do think the truck was red; the truck WAS red.

However if you are talking about absolute truth then your belief has no affect on the truth. For example, if you believe that a blue truck was red, you would be wrong because the truck was blue. Absolute truth lies outside of a person, a group of people, or even everyone.

Answer 9

Anyone can be deluded by anything, example: 80% of the earth's population believe in some form of organized religion or higher being. A distorted worldview takes "really really hard" belief systems, especially when there's no hard evidence except faith.

Answer 10

It really depends, in my opinion. If it is a wild thing, like growing wings, i highly doubt it will happen. However, is it is something fairly simple, like going to the Olympics one day, it might happen. That is, you will have to work hard for it to come true. it's not like, shazam, you were sitting on the couch one minute eating potato chips, and the next you are on the track team for the olympics. in other words, if you work hard for it, your dreams might come true. Yeah, sometimes, luck is on your side. But i doubt it happens a lot. It is just a coincidence.