everyone believes that they have the correct belief for them
they have enough personal experience to convince them that they have made the right choice
that every God/Goddess is the true God/Goddess for the believers
and that there is no God for the Atheist
no one is any more right than the next person and no one is wrong
can we all agree on this at least ?
2007-02-07 10:04:11 · 18 answers · asked by Peace 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
oh i know milo
2007-02-07 10:09:16 · update #1
vinslave you have a good point and yes perhaps i should have said it that way
2007-02-07 10:11:08 · update #2
Hi Pangel,
I like the way you say things, and yes you are right.
Someone in these answers said someone has to be right. Well, not always.
I went to a seminar once, where we all took the Myer Briggs personality Profile test. The seminar was led by Bill Jefferies, who had done the same seminar for Pres. Reagan's staff. We hired Bill to do this for the leadership where I worked and we included our spouses. He started by selecting 10 people and split them up and asked them to define time on a flip chart. Would you believe not one definition between both groups was the same, and they were both right. One group was a sensing group, and the other was intuitive. The sensing group had words like minutes, seconds, days, years, etc, They were saying what time is. The intuitive group said words like, change, motion, space-time, the 4th dimension, Einsteinian in concept, etc. They were trying to define time. This was a homogenous group of people with 4+ year degrees and they could not agree on what time meant, or how they perceived it.
In Y!A, we have the same problem. One person senses reality one way, the other, another way. Both are right, within what they sense, and both can never see, the other side, for that is not how they are built.
My solution is the One Coin Concept. Look at one side of a coin, you see materialism, or atheism. Look at the other and you see the immaterial dimension of consciousness, or soul and God. Look at the coin and you see reality, both sides, humanity.
The best answer is your answer, to accept that people are different, and they believe different, that is all.
Kisses to you too,
Ted
2007-02-07 13:01:39 · answer #1 · answered by Cogito Sum 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sounds fair to me, but then I don't claim to know the truth. For all I know, gods and goddesses could simply be spiritual entities created and fed by the energy of belief that comes from humans. If that were so, then every god would believe about themself what their supporters believe, and - as you say - they'd all be right, simultaneously, within the bubble of their own universal view. The universe would have been created in a bunch of different ways, all at the same time, and every god would believe that they were there, because their believers think so. What fascinates me is the idea that maybe, one day, one of the big gods will wake up one morning suddenly convinced that they don't exist after all :o)
lol - it's all very quantum, I know :o)
2007-02-07 21:16:32 · answer #2 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"no one is any more right than the next person and no one is wrong can we all agree on this at least ?"
No that's total rubbish and illogical. If one group believe there are gods and one group believe there aren't, then one clearly IS wrong.
With no proof of the existence of any gods and none likely to be forthcoming, we can assume that those who believe there are no gods are correct.
2007-02-07 11:55:53 · answer #3 · answered by mainwoolly 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you want to use the terminology valid perception vs. correct perception I'll agree that other people's perceptions of their religion, as it applies to themselves is VALID for them, but not correct perception. Sorry. Reality is really reality... there are some realities that exist, can be experienced and have logical patterns to them that exist whether anybody else believes in them or not. Example: just because somebody doesn't want to believe in global warming, it still exists.
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2007-02-07 10:09:48 · answer #4 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"no one is any more right than the next person and no one is wrong can we all agree on this at least ?"
I can agree that we all believe we are correct, but I know that someone is wrong.
2007-02-07 10:10:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I think along these lines.
I never talk about this, because I do not need to hear people force their beliefs on me 24/7, (or call me names). I maybe need to trust that people will not be bad, nah, I can't do that - people are terrible.
You are very courageous, Pangel.
2007-02-07 18:06:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes i will agree with your statement 100% as everybody makes a personal choice to choose what they want to believe or not believe and everybody feels that they have made the right choice for themselves
2007-02-07 10:10:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well everyone claims to me right, so how can we agree no one is more right?
When we all know Atheist are the only ones with THE TRUTH
lol sorry i know its mean.
2007-02-07 10:09:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not when there is physical evidence to the contrary of somebody's belief. Or when a belief is the result of a logical fallacy.
2007-02-07 10:08:26 · answer #9 · answered by mullah robertson 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Does anyone know the year Jesus is supposed to have been born? Is there any evidence at all to clarify that he did exist?
2007-02-07 10:09:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋