Or have you a third option...
2007-04-16 07:34:07 · 16 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Both ways really.
2007-04-16 08:00:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people see something, & percieve it to be what they wish/want/expect it to be, although others may "see" it quite differently. So, seeing is believing.
I had an assignment in college (psychology) to select a picture from a newspaper, & write two totally opposite points of view. (In this case, I chose a racial issue.) I was amazed at how easily, how "passionately" I could "get into" both points of view & actually "feel" them. I'll never forget that exercise & what I learned from it. (That's perhaps what led me to psychology as a profession, but it's valuable in every day life.)
Considering the first part of my diatribe, it seems they are the same. In believing, one sees what they wish to see. So, believing is seeing.
2007-04-16 20:07:07 · answer #2 · answered by Valac Gypsy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Living through faith sucks! I thought that I would always have to have the same level of faith at the end that I had in the beginning. This meant that I would always have this evil little devil on my shoulder whispering you've been snookered! However, as I continue through life, I see my God in many things. I find that as time goes on my faith is less and less because He becomes fact, more and more. Sorry, that's the best way I can describe it.
2007-04-16 22:12:04 · answer #3 · answered by delux_version 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing and believing are two entirely different entities, although each may nicely compliment the other, they are entirely capable of existing individually. For example:
A cynic may refute even that which is, although amazing, right there before their very eyes and yet...
A blind man does not need sight to have faith.
2007-04-16 15:54:40 · answer #4 · answered by ami_707 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Believing is accepting something regardless of the presence of physical substance. It can be attributed to either the physical being proven and shown or it can verge on the religious aspect of it and become faith. Faith is the act of believing without seeing.
2007-04-16 15:28:58 · answer #5 · answered by You Ask & I Answer!!! 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Seeing for me is they ability to sense the world around, to perceive it without the aid of any of the five sense. A sort of sixth sense, anti-sense. So I suppose, being able to see(my way) creates it's own beliefs.
2007-04-16 15:23:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For those who can those statements are true.
For others they can see and still not believe or they can believe but what they see may not be the truth.
2007-04-16 21:35:49 · answer #7 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Makes me want to travel to the North Pole and visit with Santa.
2007-04-16 14:38:55 · answer #8 · answered by jon_mac_usa_007 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing is believing what you can accept. Believing is seeing what others can't accept.
2007-04-16 14:43:45 · answer #9 · answered by Gustav 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's both, just as the sensation changes the mind, the mind changes its perceptions.
2007-04-16 14:41:13 · answer #10 · answered by Said 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a saying, "you can't believe your lying eyes....believe nothing you hear and half of what you see..."
2007-04-17 01:06:02 · answer #11 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋