And we all know the story about opinions don't we?
2007-10-14 07:58:05 · 21 answers · asked by GOLGOTHA 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah, they're like asssholes, everybody has one!
2007-10-14 08:01:00 · answer #1 · answered by Brutally Honest Babe 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Belief is the psychological state in which an individual is convinced of the truth or validity of a proposition or premise (argument). Belief does not necessarily confer the ability to adequately prove one's main contention to other people, who may disagree. It is much more than an opinion.
The relationship between belief and knowledge is subtle. Believers in a claim typically say that they know that claim. For instance, those who believe that the Sun is a god will report that they know the Sun is a god. However, the terms belief and knowledge are used differently by philosophers.
A false belief is not considered to be knowledge, even if it is sincere. A sincere believer in the flat earth theory does not know that the Earth is flat. Similarly, a truth that nobody believes is not knowledge, because in order to be knowledge, there must be some person who knows it.
Later epistemologists have questioned the "justified true belief" definition, and some philosophers have questioned whether "belief" is a useful notion at all.
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2007-10-14 08:04:31 · answer #2 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOGIC and reason dictate that there has to be an ultimate uncaused cause of the Universe(space and time) because there can not be an infinite regress of events or time.
What is not only unsensical and foolish but also contrary to logic and scientific observations, is to blindly believe, contrary to the all obersvations that all physical effects have a beginning and a cause, that the universe (matter, time and energy) has always existed eternally, without a beginning and is uncaused. That's not only silly, but against all observations.
There is an ultimate, uncaused cause outside of time and space who created all things.
2007-10-14 08:11:56 · answer #3 · answered by LogosOfTheFather 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All opinions, but it is something to believe in
2007-10-14 08:15:51 · answer #4 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are ill, do you go to a doctor, or my 5 year old? If you say "doctor", then you do not believe what you are saying in your "question". This kind of thinking NOONE sane believes.
2007-10-14 08:05:32 · answer #5 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... certain things really are logically impossible despite what I may feel.
It's not "opinion" that a "three sided square" cannot exist. The concept is nonsensical and cannot logically exist.
So too is it true that the god concept is contradictory and nonsensical, and deities cannot logically exist.
2007-10-14 08:00:16 · answer #6 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Sure! Everyone has an opinion. No one can be proven right or wrong as far as their religious/spiritual beliefs are concerned.
2007-10-14 08:04:47 · answer #7 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no belief in god. I did not Choose not to believe. The belief in him is not there. I can not make myself believe. So, your premise is false.
In this case it is not an opinion, but a fact, that I have no belief in god.
2007-10-14 08:08:34 · answer #8 · answered by punch 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Agreed. Two people in the exact same situation can have entirely different experiences based on their personal "lens" or way of seeing things, and how they interpret what they see.
2007-10-14 08:03:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why of course I do. I don't think that my way of thinking is the only right way, and I certainly don't think that everyone should believe the exact same things as I do.
2007-10-14 08:00:45 · answer #10 · answered by xx. 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!! Everybody is convinced they're right in their opinions! I have an open mind and will find out the truth only when I die!
2007-10-14 08:00:42 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋