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Beliefs 2/19/2021 12:58:53 PM
Beliefs are a strange part of human consciousness. Some Interesting "facts" about beliefs:
• Beliefs are the brain’s lazy short cuts. Much of life is often overly complex, chaotic and complicated. So, we need a way to simply all this messy complexity so we can be assured that we have a reliable way to understand, predict and control life easier and quicker to be happier and more successful.
• We reduce a virtually infinite series of facts into a simpler template that we can use to cut to the chase in our own thinking and discussions with others--without needing days and weeks and a library of books to explain the hidden details of what we believe in.
• Beliefs are often how we explain the unexplainable, fill in the blanks, invent cause and effect relationships or connect the dots between unrelated things. This is a matter of expediency and convenience though, because we just don’t have enough time.
• Seeing is Believing. Yes, this seems to be the case, but then again there are optical illusions that can convince you that you are seeing movement and color when none is there (Just Google “best optical illusions).
• We tend to believe by assumption that our beliefs are rational, based on real experiences, true, defendable, and provable, although none of this is required.
• Most beliefs are much more emotional than rational and that is why we can’t be argued out of having a certain belief, as our feelings protect the belief, and they are not accessible by rational thought.
• Wrong beliefs seem to be impervious to changing, even when there is compelling evidence to dispute the truth of the belief.
• We often argue to defend the beliefs which we are least informed about.
