WHCH of these BELIEFS would u giveup LAST: Belief in God, in TrueLove, in Life's purpose, Goodness of Humanity

Question

& why is it so important 2 let go?

Answer 1

The goodness of humanity. After the illusions and wishes of God and love fade, we still have to face ourselves, each other and the wider ecology of an earth and cosmos. We have to see the beings we are as they truly live. And then we have to GIVE without reservation, from our greater energies to open more expansive and inclusive possibilities within which living beings can thrive.
Frankly, the other options are the kinds of delusions we give to children who cannot deal with complexity. Simple one shot abstractions and wishes that the growing variety of life, the proximity of conflict, the complexity of differences between and among us, no less between us and our environment do not allow. These infantile simplicities that are now tantamount to outrages and violences against what our responsiblity truly entails. We have to observe, discern, learn, deepen and connect -- and in a way that fosters futures for all that we encounter.
Reducing to big Ones -- God, Love, "purpose" -- and then demanding that of others, imposing those kinds of monolitihic, ideological (by psychically satisfying passifers) results in nothing but neo-cons, ideologues, religious true believers, wars, genocides...

Answer 2

Life's purpose would go last for me. True love is an ideal, as is the goodness of humanity- I would like to hold onto those, but I could still live without them. With no purpose whatsoever, I would be lost, so to speak. Belief in any god, is second to all of these I think. One can live in the present and not worry about any god presiding over you, with purpose and some hope of love and goodness.

Answer 3

The belief in God is the essential belief of a human. This is the essential part that differentiate a person from any other creature. As for giving up any belief I think it is fundamentally wrong because one does not believe in something unless a full conviction is associated to it. So no one gives up a belief and if this happens it is fully personal and cannot be analogous to anybody else beliefs.

Answer 4

Belief in God. I would never give that up....simply because He is my reason for living. Honestly, without Him my life would be pointless.

For me, that is where my sense of life's purpose comes from. Goodness of Humanity? Follow the 10 Commandments...given by (guess who!) God.

If you read in Matthew, God is all about true love! So any way that I look at it, God is the source of all these things.

But because of sin, these ideals are quickly "going down the drain."

So...for me, I'll stick with my belief in God.

Answer 5

Since the rest of them are gone, I'd have to say belief in God, at least some of the time I believe, just in case. Its not a bit important whether you let it go or not, its just one of those things that give you something to think about when you are drunk. Along with the nature of God and how to achieve world peace by keeping everyone high.

Answer 6

first let me say that once someone believes in GOD and know him, That would be the last thing one would ever let go of. For TRUELOVE is unconditional love and GOD showed how much he loved us when he sent his only son to this world to save us from our sins, SECOND, when you read GODS WORD from the bible he will show you lifes purpose and lastly GOODNESS of HUMANITY will become part of you. For I believe when we really enter into an intimate relationship withGOD, our eyes are opened to the truth and the truth shall set you free! Just ask him in your heart and I guarentee that your life will never be the same again.

Answer 7

I would give up ALL those BELIEFS, which reside in the mental world for the knowingness of SOUL of all the above. There's a vast difference between believing and knowing. Until one lets go of the mind constructs and gets out of Soul's way, one will not have true KNOWINGNESS.

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Answer 8

Belief in God as there is one out there that guides you through life so all the rest will fall into place if you are watching and open to yourself .

Answer 9

From my experiences, I at first forfeit my belief in God. That was the most difficult because I was raised a Catholic and I took an oath to believe in a deity during Confirmation. Thus, giving up my belief in God felt treasonous to what I swore. Reality, however, had no place for God as I became increasingly secular and reliant on the scientific process and empricism. It was this empirical trend and my embracing a methodology to intepreting fact, information and truths that brought about the gradual dispensation of 'believing'--in general.
The next to be dispanded was my belief in the 'goodness of humanity.' As I became more aware of human psychology and social dynamics, I came to understand how much of an animal a human being truly is. At first I was disgusted by the violence, crime and nefarious capabilities of humankind. The fact that an uncle could rape his 11 year old niece or a queen could blind her own son was hard to digest while trying to reason that humans are inherently 'good.'
Rather than excusing heinous behaviours or classifying deviants, I came to discover that it wasn't the humans that weren't being 'good' but that 'good' wasn't intrinsic to humankind. "Goodness" is subjective and contextual because it can't be empricized without a frame of reference or a point of comparison. Regardless of this, 'goodness' tends to be defined as justice, righteousness, virtue, and everything that isn't conducive to harm. Since humans are naturally inclined to harm and war, considering them to be 'good' is not a belief, because it runs contrary to fact. It is instead, self-deception.
Humans are more complicated than that. They embody both 'goodness' and 'harmfulness'. We are paradoxes.
'True Love' was next to follow on the casualty list of beliefs. As I came to learn that love is a neurochemical response comparable to addictions that originate in the nucleus acumbens (check that one on Wikipedia.org) the whole shroud of love soon became a natural process. Part of it involves fixations, part has to do with imprinting (see the work of Konrad Lorenz on wikipedia.org), and still another part has to do with learning. There are also genetic predispositions involved as well as hormones. Since love can be deciphered scientifically, there was no need to believe in anything. The juggernaut of empiricism went forward until it trampled the last of my beliefs.
The last to go was life's purpose. I lament that one the most. Even though evolutionary science does qualify life's purpose as fitness, reproduction, and survival, as well as all the secondary activities that contribute to this trinity, I went the way of Zen.
On account of death, I had to define life in vain.
The Egyptians used to believe that so long as people remember their names, they would live forever.
But what use is being remember when one has no belief in an afterlife? Since one can neither perceive nor enjoy the events that occur posthumously, what one enjoys in life may only be enjoyed once, and never thereafter.
That's the toughest one to endure--but rather than casting aside life's for not having a preternatural purpose, I simply designated my own and carry it out fully conscious of life's vanity.

As for the final part, it is important to let go of beliefs only if acting on them causes us suffering or the suffering of others. Since life is not eternal, it is better endured when we minimize suffering. For some, it may be better to hold onto beliefs because they do serve well as a coping mechanism for billions. With that said, 'letting go' is conditional on what works best for the situation at hand and the people involved.

Answer 10

Perhaps they could all be the same belief. I think that for many people if they give up one of these beliefs it would be the same as giving up all of them.