How important is it for a person to believe in something/anything?

Answer 1

if you don't believe in something, and have no passion about it, then what does your life stand for? jsut to work all day every day and then die?

Answer 2

It's in a list of top priorities. If you're surrounded by love ones, then you know how often people can get hurt, I know I do. Point is, its easier to help the people you care most about when they're down if you believe in something. If you believe in God, then quote something from the Bible in his good word. If you believe in Buddha, spread faith and wisdom. If you're atheist, then you can probably relate a situation you had similar or exact. If it got better, you could tell them how you pulled through or that you could help them so things dont turn out as bad. Believing in things keeps us going, not just love and friendship

Answer 3

I think it was a cliche in my mother's day that if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything....I do think it's important to have values & a belief system. You have morals and beliefs to provide structure & guidance in your life. How can you really know yourself if you don't know what you believe? & if you don't know yourself how can you find happiness in life? If you are lost & not sure what you believe you may be easily led by the wrong people and be manipulated by negative influences. When you have a strong sense of who you are & what you value then you can not be so easily manipulated.

Answer 4

From the moment you are born, you memorize. This memories and the skills you are born with produce a background, against all new receptions are evaluated and filed. Based on this filing system, you have a believe system and everybody has one, or is a vegetable.
If you feed a young mind a lot of religious crap, then the kid grows up, thinking there is a god and it needs it. Another kid grows up with rather intelligent parents, who don't fill the kids file system with useless bible or islamic crap and it grows up to be happy, successful and doesn't need to go on the computer, waisting time to ask questions, which aren't real questions.

Answer 5

Believing in the existence of the space-time universe is vital, because every mistake you make in thinking or acting toward it will be a failure.
Believing that things can be defined according to functional and prioritized definitions of their normative inner workings is vital, since a failure to achieve such categorizing comprehension will result in you being unable to understand, act toward or profit from your life's activity in some degree.
Believing in the hard-and-fast (non-miraculous) reality of reality is equally important because everything you ever try to do depends on the dependability of what you know about reality being true before, during and after you doing your investment of life-positive self-owned value (capital) surrendered in work solely in order to create a profit, regardless of how you then consume or dispose of it.

As for beliefs in supposedly very different--much better or much worse) otherworlds, infallible, almighty deities or those who claim religio--inspiration of such annunciator claimants to leadership by said deities--it's important that you either reject all such claims as immoral, not workable on Earth; or else that you give up thisworld, reason for faith and enter a monastery to avoid contamination.

That's what you need to believe in--reality, categorizing definitions, realism, work and your selfish responsibility to get value decisions right.

Answer 6

It's important to have something to believe in, whether its a religion a person or your self, if you don't have something to believe life doesn't have that extra taste

Answer 7

According to my own generally philanthropic system of ethics, contribution to greater society's well-being is valued. Contibution to personal well-being, too, is valued. Then in this context, believing in something is THE most important thing...Feeling inspired by something is what allows you to inspire others...

This will allow you to create change amongst the peoples in the greater community and beyond...Only when you are motivated can you motivate others...

Do you want to contribute to your society? Do you want to make a mark on the canvas of your world...? If YES then, find something to believe in and make waves with it...

Or do you want to go unnoticed? If YES to this, then believing in something is not a priority for you...

Answer 8

It is very important that a man believe that he or she does not have the intention of causing harm to people.

Answer 9

Believing in something (religion and the such) is good as long as it doesn't take over your life. I have seen people who don't believe in anything and the could be a lot happier if they did. I have also seen people whose religion takes over their life and serves only to interfere with daily life.

Answer 10

Because you can't know all the answers. Sometimes you just gotta believe that everything will turn out all right. That the sun will rise in the morning.

Answer 11

I recommend the following article from the NYTimes. It asks the question, "are we hard-wired to believe in God?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html?ex=1330837200&en=be2b80235e0bbc91&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink