Belief!
Belief!
Does it ever matter if someone is made to believe the truth or the untruth? Both ways the end objective remains the same – getting someone to believe. A lot of people believe that there is someone who will come and redeem them of their sins. Others believe that the elected representative is going to take care of their needs. Parents believe that their sacrifices are going to give them a happy old age with their children. Etc etc.
We are all gullible people!
We need that sense of security – we need that cocoon to protect us from harm.
On a different note a dialog from one of my favorite movies “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist”. - Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey) in The Usual Suspects.
While this dialog per se may not be directly linked to our lives – let’s look at our daily lives, we read the newspapers, watch the news, listen to people – politicians, celebrities etc. They tell us something as we believe or do not believe. We classify them, worship them, ridicule them, adore them – setting for ourselves perceptions of what they really are.
Some political parties for instance, and this came up while I was discussing with a colleague, promote their agenda of being religion based, caste based etc., and we choose to hate them or follow them. Incidentally we do not realize that those who do not promote themselves live off the remaining flock who do not owe allegiance to any agenda based party. But for most of us we believe that they are nationalist parties. Well they made you believe that, didn’t they?
The list goes on – at the bottom of it one thing comes out clear, we are gullible to the concept of belief – I wonder what would happen if we didn’t believe at all?
Does it ever matter if someone is made to believe the truth or the untruth? Both ways the end objective remains the same – getting someone to believe. A lot of people believe that there is someone who will come and redeem them of their sins. Others believe that the elected representative is going to take care of their needs. Parents believe that their sacrifices are going to give them a happy old age with their children. Etc etc.
We are all gullible people!
We need that sense of security – we need that cocoon to protect us from harm.
On a different note a dialog from one of my favorite movies “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist”. - Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey) in The Usual Suspects.
While this dialog per se may not be directly linked to our lives – let’s look at our daily lives, we read the newspapers, watch the news, listen to people – politicians, celebrities etc. They tell us something as we believe or do not believe. We classify them, worship them, ridicule them, adore them – setting for ourselves perceptions of what they really are.
Some political parties for instance, and this came up while I was discussing with a colleague, promote their agenda of being religion based, caste based etc., and we choose to hate them or follow them. Incidentally we do not realize that those who do not promote themselves live off the remaining flock who do not owe allegiance to any agenda based party. But for most of us we believe that they are nationalist parties. Well they made you believe that, didn’t they?
The list goes on – at the bottom of it one thing comes out clear, we are gullible to the concept of belief – I wonder what would happen if we didn’t believe at all?
posted by Jolvin Rodrigues at
7:02 AM
4 Comments:
If we didn't believe at all then unknowingly we are believing the other part of the belief...This means if we are not believing the truth then we are with the false aspect of life.
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Prashant Karkera, at Tuesday, March 06, 2007 10:15:00 AM
@Prashant - That's a lot like what's not yours is mine :)
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Jolvin Rodrigues, at Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:51:00 AM
As a skeptic I'd ask for evidence believing pretty much anything.
Know that skeptisicm is the default position of science.
By
Reflection Nebula, at Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:04:00 PM
@ nebula - I'd agree too - though a lot is still to be proved...point is do we have the time to wait for proof.
By
Jolvin Rodrigues, at Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:15:00 PM
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