tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343295804928403795.post2896149746360072197..comments2024-03-04T18:22:21.971-05:00Comments on Human Without God: Personal Life Experience vs. ReasonYun Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06311104014692132715noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343295804928403795.post-47414816070604784492010-07-05T09:44:43.257-04:002010-07-05T09:44:43.257-04:00@TT, thanks for your insightful comments!
i assum...@TT, thanks for your insightful comments! <br />i assume your word "beliefs" doesn't mean only religious beliefs. in this case, it is similar to NP's "ideas", i guess. yes, just because we believe, doesn't mean they are true. it's not easy to keep our minds open.<br />i also consider myself internal observer. i consider our inner world is much more complicated Yun Yihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06311104014692132715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343295804928403795.post-11172432119861803402010-07-04T17:50:21.747-04:002010-07-04T17:50:21.747-04:00I believe we are limited by our beliefs. We fierce...I believe we are limited by our beliefs. We fiercely cling to these beliefs without recognizing that ideas, theories and beliefs are not necessarily truths. They are not sacrosanct and ought to be repeatedly re-examined and replaced if and when when we discover they underlay self sabotaging behaviors. <br /><br />The truth is that a belief is not an idea held by the mind; it is an idea that holdstimethiefhttp://thistimethisspace.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343295804928403795.post-39321692664005476162010-07-01T21:43:30.726-04:002010-07-01T21:43:30.726-04:00NP, I think, you are speaking of a higher intellec...NP, I think, you are speaking of a higher intellectual level... When I wrote this I was more thinking about those who didn't know what "idea" was... lol<br />I agree with you anyway. Our ideas (or poor reasoning) can make us fail to see those raw truth displayed by experience crystal clearly in front of us.Yun Yihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06311104014692132715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343295804928403795.post-69527430969763323552010-07-01T20:19:04.602-04:002010-07-01T20:19:04.602-04:00I think it's our ideas that limit us, not expe...I think it's our ideas that limit us, not experience. Experience will always bring us new people, new things, new situations. But our rigid ideas about how things are or should be will always try to squeeze those new things, people, situations into some pre-conceived mold of reality.nothingprofoundhttp://wwwaphorismscom.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com