sun and the rain, can a person still experience the benefits or ill effects if one does not believe in such things?? Are they an illusion or are they real? Does belief make something real??
2007-05-14 03:36:09 · 6 answers · asked by bagel lover 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
A belief is a compensation for what cannot be understood. Once you acquire knowledge about something, you won't need to believe it anymore. Science, doubt, learning, and knowledge are more suitable for the soul than mere illusion or hope.
This is where true faith is, where you come to a clear understanding, where you KNOW for sure; which will be impossible without doubt, research, and experiment.
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom; for we never know what enough is until we KNOW what is more than enough.....William Blake.
Good luck!
2007-05-14 05:18:50 · answer #1 · answered by Alex 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Belief, does not require any evidence. So as long as you believe you will experience benefits you will receive benefits. If you believe you will feel ill effects you will feel ill effects. Belief makes things real for the individual or group but it does not necessarily effect another person or group that does not believe.
2007-05-14 11:38:14 · answer #2 · answered by soulsearcherofthetruth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Experience is all we have. To say, I feel the rain, but do not believe it exists is mre foolishness.
Parmenides of Elea, for example, felt the change and motion were not real; that Truth was unchanging. Yet he couldn ot explain why we experience/observe change and motion. Zeno's paradoxes have long been debunked.
Modern science is based on the premise that what we observe has a basis in reality. Even delusions have a basis in reality in the sense that they are the result of chemical reactions in the brain. Mirages likewise have a scientific explanation and while not "real" are a real, explanable experience.
If you believe that jumping off a building will not hurt you, you can believe that for the rest of your short life.
2007-05-14 10:48:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think some things, especially physical, are real, whether you believe in them or not,, you can decide not to believe in the sun, yet if you go sit outside in it for hours, your body will get sunburned,,,,,, inspite of your disbelief
2007-05-14 10:47:01 · answer #4 · answered by dlin333 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reality requires no belief.even if you don't believe in the rain you will still get wet.you may fool yourself, but you are still dripping wet.a bullet will get you as dead regardless of what you may think.
God bless,
gabe
2007-05-14 10:44:22 · answer #5 · answered by gabegm1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belief has nothing to do with the emperical world.
2007-05-14 10:44:28 · answer #6 · answered by Sophist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋