When you are reading something and you realize it goes against your beliefs, do you stop reading? Do you avoid anything that doesn't agree with what you think? Or do you keep an open mind, just in case you might have been wrong?
2007-11-06 07:59:44 · 9 answers · asked by phil8656 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The truth is outside of and beyond such human things as fear and pain, desire and pleasure.
It is like trying to force an infinite absolute into this finite probability. Our minds just don’t stretch that far. We come snapping back to our focus. Mine mine mine mine mine…
2007-11-06 09:24:30 · answer #1 · answered by grey_worms 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would read it. I want to know all points of view and I hope I have an open enough mind to learn something new every day. If it goes against something I already believe, I would for sure read it. I would not be scared, rather, I would want the chance to see if my beliefs will stand the test of a challenge.
good question!
Lady Morgana )0(
2007-11-06 17:57:25 · answer #2 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have an open mind and am open to logic. However, we all judge what we read by what we believe is the truth.
Yes, the truth can hurt. Not wanting to accept at first my daughter was autistic, the realization that the tests were right, really really hurt!
2007-11-07 08:30:57 · answer #3 · answered by JerZey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth can be scary. But it is very good, to find out you are wrong in some way. If everything you believed was right, then you could not improve your position spiritual, by making a correction. I like to have very good spiritual ideas. I have been wrong in my ideas an awful lot of times, I am more confident in my ideas I have now because they have been battle harden by constant questioning. I am still a perfectionist, so I keep trying to get closer to the elusive truth.
I do a lot of meditation/mind-body exercise, healthy eating, not overindulging, and checking out all sources of spiritual ideas accessable to me. I push the edge in the mind-body exercise, and get away with it, due to good spiritual tuning, I believe. I have over 30 years, developed an Astrology system, to tune me in spiritually. I am very dedicated to upgrading the spiritual level of this world.
2007-11-06 16:17:59 · answer #4 · answered by astrogoodwin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a very open minded person, so I would most likely continue to read, I am interested in knowing other peoples beliefs, I may learn something.
2007-11-07 00:04:56 · answer #5 · answered by robink71668 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe.
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2007-11-06 16:05:04 · answer #6 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No I think the truth always sets you free it might hurt for a while but it sets you free to love to be and do other things if you are in denial you will be stuck and that is not where you want to be.
2007-11-06 16:40:30 · answer #7 · answered by Rita 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I eat it up. I look for more and more until I'm confident that I know the other persons position better than they know it. I welcome it.
Imagine if you bought a bullet proof suit. Wouldn't you get a thrill out of walking into gun fire? That's what it's like.
now go and ask a Mormon why Horus and his kids are pictured with Abraham in their bible....that hurts.
2007-11-06 16:05:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
can you handle the tooth
2007-11-06 17:37:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋