I don't want dictionary definitions, OK. Season's greetings=)
2007-12-19 21:06:11 · 13 answers · asked by Aken 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Hmmm...I think the Y!A section is more about 'ponder' and 'wonder' than 'realize'. Anyway, I think that when one comes to a realization, one believes, more or less, the validity of the method used to reach it.
2007-12-19 21:33:51 · update #1
Accepting something whether it's the truth or not.
2007-12-19 21:27:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a form of faith either in the unseen or the proof of your own knowledge. For example: people believe in reincarnation, it doesn't exist but still they have faith that one day they will come back as a rat or a bicycle seat.
Another example: 2+3-4 = 1. They believe that because they know. They know arithmetic and the numbers and symbols equal a numerical value of 1.
These two things are believed either on faith or knowledge.
2007-12-19 21:56:04 · answer #2 · answered by the old dog 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1. A creative imagination in which appears as truth
2. A strong impression in mind which protests anything against it
3. Failure of rational intelligence
4. A thing or event which never changes once understood or as said in step 1 or 2 or 3.
2007-12-19 21:23:04 · answer #3 · answered by Harihara S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To believe is simply to "hold as true". We don't just pick ideas out of thin air to "hold as true", we hold things as true when we need to achieve some goal or get somewhere. For example, I hold a belief as to the weather today in my city because I need to know how to dress. I don't need to hold a belief in the weather on Mars because that is not necessary to me.
To believe is not the same as wishful thinking. Our belief can be rational if what we believe hasn't been proven as false. So a belief in a Creator/God is not an irrational belief.
I find inside of me a desire to know my Creator even though I don't know for sure that He even exists. In order to seek my Creator, I have to hold, i.e. believe, that He exists. Others want to be free of the authority and judgment of God so they hold, i.e. believe, that God doesn't exist.
2007-12-19 21:42:09 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believing is a conviction about a truth that is yet to be proved. As and when one accepts that it has been proved or disproved, the belief goes and is replaced by what we believe to be knowledge. I hope you see the enigma here.... even our so-called knowledge is merely a belief in the proof based on which we accept it as true.
2007-12-19 21:54:20 · answer #5 · answered by small 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Believe...It is more than just a trust, If I believe, then I know it is real. More than the truth. It is a belief.
2007-12-19 21:15:17 · answer #6 · answered by theonesuna 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There must be a creed for one to say they believe.
Jesus taught 'something'. The Bible reveals 'something'. Everything else is sentiment and feely-feely.
2007-12-20 02:45:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First we need to understand the faculties of man: the mental, emotional, physical, and the spiritual or shall we call it his soul or spirit (the non material faculty of man, that others don't know or don't believe, or no consciousness at all, or refuse to know and consider in their life consciousness)
In man's rational and material faculties...harmony and complete or total agreement is necessary in order to be able to say...I BELIEVE.
So in my own knowledge of being a man...anyone of such faculties not in agreement in totality or that absence of any one in that man's faculties...such man has no sense or consciousness of BELIEVE, in its INTRINSIC MEANING.
Believe, total trust, faith, total submission, the truth, I AM, me, I ...could be synonymous in varied degrees...but believe and/or faith ...in my intrinsic understanding is the most superlative word to tell what a man is totally IN....all ready to defend. A TRUE GENTLEMAN.
Just saying I THINK is not totality of man's agreement to himself as a WHOLESOME MAN'S DECISION ON ANYTHING HE STANDS ON. (man, regardless of gender)
Therefore....BELIEVE OF A MAN is his total decision or stand on whatever it is he wish to declare while living...while breathing...while in full normal consciousness....
Changing one's BELIEVE must be progressive...not retrogressive....that is why believing must be a product of total man's I AM" intelligence in the highest degree. The man's excellent CHOICE.
But the reality due to man's FLAWS, weaknesses, wickedness, unrighteousness and indeterminateness....very FEW good and STRONG men has A SHOW OF " I BELIEVE " stand...man by nature is changeable...disrespectful even to his on self...
...money among others...pride...greed...dishonesty...lust...ignorance ...and arrogance...tends man to easily give up his BELIEVE OR FAITH OR BELIEF....
...because...sometime the physical is unwilling, UNHEALTHY, the emotional is IN GRIEF touched and finds easily hurt or outmoded, or the mental capability overwhelmed with ignorance or laziness to discern, or pride is imminent, or arrogance is in high gear...or over zealousness...but, unfortunately always....the spiritual faculties is victimized and always set aside and / or over ride. So BELIEVING IS MOSTLY NOW, LIP SERVICE.
I assure you...I believe...all I've written. bye...
2007-12-19 22:45:16 · answer #8 · answered by johnny N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means to me ''nothing.'' Really.
belief has no value in this section , it is Realise, that is the word.
2007-12-19 21:22:42 · answer #9 · answered by Radhakrishna( prrkrishna) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Believe" means to me that I still have some distance to go. I want to be able to say "I know".
2007-12-20 01:48:25 · answer #10 · answered by Laughing Brook 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋