can thoughts and ideas really change the world?

Answer 1

Unfortunately No. And the answer is simple. Who's thoughts and ideas do we go with? 6 billion people, 60 billion different thoughts and ideas.

I believe there's no way to please everyone (even god has failed at this task) but I also believe that's no excuse not to try.

My thought is this...We need to find a way to govern people that will allow them to do what their heart desires without trampling on the rights and wills of others. If we can do that...I think the world can change. But that's going to start with the leaders of individual states being humble and I don't see that happening.

Sorry for the pessimistic answer.

Answer 2

There can really be no doubt that thoughts and ideas can change YOUR world.

How you percieve something, what you think about things, and how those things make you feel are dependant so much on your pre-existing thoughts and ideas that it is sometimes difficult to untangle the two. If you know a lot about something, it's easy to see the subtleties within each example, but if you know nothing about it, you may not even rate it as important enought to pay the slightest attention to. That is just one example.

Whether a change in your world is going to affect everyone else depends a lot on you, of course. It is probably pretty easy to imagine how changing an idea here or there in certain people's minds might cause them to do vastly different things. And if that person is a leader of a nation, it's likely to have a greater effect than if that person is a hermit alone in the woods.

But even if you're not a world leader, don't sell yourself short. Almost everything has a way of affecting things beyond your ability to perceive the effects. You never know when you might be holding the pebble that can start an avalanche...

Answer 3

Thoughts and ideas technically (that is philosophically) do not change the world but move it.

That is, for example a man believes in an ideal of have all the money he can get, so he lives that way. If a most of the humanity believes in the ideal of have all the money he can get, as they really does, then the humanity lives more or less in that way, some against the idea, but most pushed in that direction by the sheer force of numbers.

So think that the impact of modern life worldly accepted ideas like relativism make the world as bad as it is now.

The awful truth is that humanity simply changes some stupid ideas for others and wars, suicides and others continues.

So if you want to change the world try to get good ideas to start with, only to find that already another people think similar things before you, because they like their ideas, and you are part of the world.

I am catholic exactly for that matter, among others like you know God love me. Nobody every likes to love his enemies and consider him/her a sinner, and it is humanly impossible to be a saint so if nobody likes that, that means applying Murphy's law (that is if the worst can happen, it is surely does) that in a world who almost everybody search a morally comfortable life that is the truth not other.

Answer 4

That would depend on what you mean by "thoughts and ideas." If you mean can we change the world just by thinking really hard, then no. But I don't think you meant that.

Thoughts and ideas change the world all the time. The wheel began as a thought--and with it came new thoughts (like "Hey, now we can move stuff!"). The first time someone got the idea to take some of what he owned and trade it in another community, commerce was born. Magna Carta began as an idea, as did the Bill of Rights. Scientific theories are all ideas that were begat by thoughts stemming from observations stemming from experiments begat by questions--which are thoughts. And so it goes.

Answer 5

I like your question by the way. Yes, I believe that thoughts and ideas can change the world and let me tell you why. Thoughts on a brain scan show up as energy and very powerful energy at that. Studies show that a runner imagining himself running a race will activate those parts of his(her) brain as if he (she) is running the race. I also discovered that I have changed the way I feel by changing the way that I think. It's like in the book/movie called, "The Secret." Those who say that they win all the time, do. And those who say that they never win, do. By thinking of my own personal relationship as being better (thought), I became happier. And that was picked up by my girlfriend, who bettered our relationship with one another. My thought became an action and changed/is changing my part of the world. Thoughts and ideas change the world one person at a time. I am a man of peace and I advocate peace with others in my own life. One day, the man/woman I create peace with will create peace with another. If enough people do that, then a thought/idea has changed the world.

Just look at how our anger and our rage at another/others has created war in the world and you see what I mean.

Answer 6

Yes - we are all connected. Look at it this way..... Imagine a pond or lake. There are many throwing in a stone in there which cause ripples ever spreading and interacting with all the other ripples. That is the ever changing matrix we are an integral part of. Thought energy is an all pervading force interacting with all. The more uniform thoughts of the same or similar kind there are from many, the more pronounced, dominating the changed pattern.

Answer 7

No, thoughts and ideas alone cannot change the world. The thoughts and ideas must be put into action. However, there is no guarantee they will produce an intended outcome.

Answer 8

Only if it is supported by others. No one man can change the course of events by himself. Their enertia is just too great. It take vast tides of people to make major changes in the world. One person can alter those events close to him which may expand to affect several others, but it is almost always an unintended consequence and is frequently damped out by the mainstream of events.

Answer 9

Yes, they can change the world. Your thoughts/dreams could become a reality, henceforth changing the world.

Answer 10

Of course. When I was born, almost no one had a TV or air conditioning just to name two. Now everyone has TV and keeps in national touch by the hour. The desert how has air conditioners, who would have thought of that? Someone did.