Isn't it odd to think that we could be wrong about something that we never had any reason to think we were wrong about?
2007-11-05 19:48:47 · 15 answers · asked by Uh-oh 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Very good question. It isn't bad to sometimes doubt our own belief. To think that we could be wrong is an act of humility. It is also a good attitude towards dialoguing with others. Our insistence on our set of beliefs oftentimes blinds us to see the facts that others are showing us.
We should go beyond "either or" attitude. There is a "both and" alternative.
2007-11-05 20:08:38 · answer #1 · answered by Dencel 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Common sense is in the eye of the beholder. It is a question of what resounds within yourself and what you have been conditioned to believe.
Thus Jews and Muslims believe it is common-sense not to eat pork, many Indians believe arranged marriages make more sense than "falling in love" and yes, for centuries people believed the world was flat because it FELT flat. Now we know otherwise, and judging from your answers, some people's common-sense still tells them the world is flat.
So I would say that many times it is the perception that counts, not the actual facts.....
Common sense does not account for many instincts, beliefs, rites, superstitions and little theories that get many people through their lives.
2007-11-06 04:07:27 · answer #2 · answered by simon2blues 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually as soon as people became intelligent enough to apply principles of discovery (reason) they became aware that the earth was round . You can clearly see this on the horizon at sun up . Also it was clear that the moon and sun were round . It was just one of those silly superstions of the uneducated and fearful that you could fall off the edge .
See you were wrong because you didn't do your homework ! You just wanted a reason to bash common sense to give your own belief some validity . Doesn't work that way ! You need facts and logic .
2007-11-06 03:58:29 · answer #3 · answered by allure45connie 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
common sense is only as good as the era and society in which it comes from. common sense only allows a person to function with in the parameters and scripts of that society and time... if you believed the world was round in 1400's Europe you might have a problem working and living amongst that culture....semantics of common sense " *...aspects of meaning, as expressed in language or other systems.... .Common sense ideas tend to relate to events within human experience (i.e. good will), and thus commensurate with human scale. Thus there is no commonsense intuition of, for example, the behaviour of the universe"
being wrong has no correlation to common sense
2007-11-06 04:07:08 · answer #4 · answered by Firemedic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are plenty of beliefs in modern society that will seem just as ridiculous in a few generations. People will be looking back at the consensus reality of today and thinking "how could they have believed anything so obviously wrong?"
2007-11-06 06:01:10 · answer #5 · answered by Morgaine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea where you're coming from, but the Bible does NOT say the world is flat. Scientists thought it was flat. Heads of state thought it was flat. Ordinary people thought it was flat. None of it was for religious reasons.
2007-11-06 06:22:42 · answer #6 · answered by sailaway 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even in the times of the prophet Isaiah, the people of God had already known that the world is round and not flat........
Isaiah 40:22 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Note: The Word of God said .....'circle of the earth'..... Pretty mind boggling to have a 'box-circle'.
2007-11-06 04:06:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You're right. There could be a whole lot of things even today which we concider common sence but of which we could be wrong because we have no other evidence to go against it.
2007-11-06 04:56:44 · answer #8 · answered by Skippy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biblical common sense was believing the world was flat.The Greeks figured out otherwise before Christ came along and yet flat earthism made its way into the New Testament. When Jesus was tempted by Satan he was taken up the highest mountain and shown all the kingdoms of the earth. That can only be possible if the earth is flat!
2007-11-06 03:54:25 · answer #9 · answered by penster_x 4 · 3⤊ 6⤋
Oh mean it's not?
How do planes get from one place to the other without going into space then?
2007-11-06 04:02:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋