Belief
PostPosted:Tue Aug 21, 2012 5:15 am
I just turned sixteen. Yay!
I decided, as sort of, shall I say, a new goal in life, to stick to what I believe. I don't think many people here are privy to my beliefs, so I shall air them out. Dirty laundry, clean laundry, depending on how you view the clothing my thoughts wear. I care about you people, all of you, believe it or not. I believe it
I consider you all family, and I intend on sticking around. Thence why I share this with you today.
I believe in belief. The only reason something might not be true to any one person, is because they don't believe it. Obviously there are things, being factual in nature, that are not based off of belief. In the end, you either believe it or not. The difference between believing factual things and believing debatable things, is the ability to hold onto ignorance. If it's been proven a certain way through logic and understanding of the world we live in today, and you still disagree with it yet, you are being stubborn. Ignorant. If it's unexplainable, and you refuse to believe it, you are also being ignorant and stubborn. The dividing line that I see between things factual and debatable is simple; is this belief based off of something that can coexist with societies logic today? Are people ignoring this belief because they simply cannot compute the possibility? Many people are ignorant and stubborn for different reasons. Pride. Self-esteem. Egotistic value. Religion. The biggest, Fear. These are only a few I could name off the top of my head.
Slenderman isn't real to a lot of people for one major, apparently mainstream reason. Fear. So he takes your children that hide things from you, obviously not all the children, but the select few, and if you see him, he takes you too. So what? The protection many people use, is simply this; belief. If you don't believe in it, why would it exist in your eyes? If it's unexplainable, how can it explain it's self to everyone, more so those who don't believe? Our thoughts are not just things that exist in our heads. They are all around us, as well. Thoughts can act like a shield. If we think it isn't real, it isn't real. If we think it is, it very well may be. This is also a vast majority of logic's power.
Without society and it's logic, many people would simply stand and whittle their thumbs, eventually forced to form opinions of their own. Sadly, not many people are the blacksheep of their own lives. They go along with other peoples beliefs, thence the term "popular belief". An example of this in every day conversation would be, "Contrary to popular belief, I think all cats are purple." Whether that belief is logical or not, it still happens to be a belief. Simply not a popular one. People tend to be rude to others so bold in their own beliefs because they fear that if they scream their belief too loud, too many people would start believing it. Like a snowball, the security of society and it's logic is eaten from the inside, out. The common obvious is that what people fear, is usually what people don't understand. Not understanding something, leading to fear, can lead to anger. Anger can, and almost always will if pushed to the limit, lead to someones death. Suddenly, the world is filed with purple kitties. Who knew.
The only reason so many people hold onto logic is because it's an easy shield, and part of life is spent building up basic logic in order to protect ourselves when we are very young. Thousands of years have already been spent building up logic, so much in fact, that we subconsciously make decisions based off of what we know. This is partly the reason why most children do bad things, why some children do good things, and why some children don't do anything. They don't know yet, and thence they are experimenting with their beliefs. An example would be ghosts or spirits. Children claim to see people that their parents do not. This is due in heavy part to the lack of understanding, simply without the fear. They don't know what it is. The natural reaction to something we don't know what is, is to communicate with it. Depending on how our parents raised us, we all see different things. My childhood friend sees dead people all the time. Why? Because her mother never shielded her from it. Nobody remembers who they talked to when they were wee little, and that's because our parents work hard to establish ourselves with a pre-defined defense against things in this world. As we get older, the shell of logic simply slides off, or stays on, depending on what you decide to do with your life.
Forgive me if this seems shy of insanity at a young age, I'm merely trying to capture the bigger picture.
I decided, as sort of, shall I say, a new goal in life, to stick to what I believe. I don't think many people here are privy to my beliefs, so I shall air them out. Dirty laundry, clean laundry, depending on how you view the clothing my thoughts wear. I care about you people, all of you, believe it or not. I believe it
I consider you all family, and I intend on sticking around. Thence why I share this with you today.I believe in belief. The only reason something might not be true to any one person, is because they don't believe it. Obviously there are things, being factual in nature, that are not based off of belief. In the end, you either believe it or not. The difference between believing factual things and believing debatable things, is the ability to hold onto ignorance. If it's been proven a certain way through logic and understanding of the world we live in today, and you still disagree with it yet, you are being stubborn. Ignorant. If it's unexplainable, and you refuse to believe it, you are also being ignorant and stubborn. The dividing line that I see between things factual and debatable is simple; is this belief based off of something that can coexist with societies logic today? Are people ignoring this belief because they simply cannot compute the possibility? Many people are ignorant and stubborn for different reasons. Pride. Self-esteem. Egotistic value. Religion. The biggest, Fear. These are only a few I could name off the top of my head.
Slenderman isn't real to a lot of people for one major, apparently mainstream reason. Fear. So he takes your children that hide things from you, obviously not all the children, but the select few, and if you see him, he takes you too. So what? The protection many people use, is simply this; belief. If you don't believe in it, why would it exist in your eyes? If it's unexplainable, how can it explain it's self to everyone, more so those who don't believe? Our thoughts are not just things that exist in our heads. They are all around us, as well. Thoughts can act like a shield. If we think it isn't real, it isn't real. If we think it is, it very well may be. This is also a vast majority of logic's power.
Without society and it's logic, many people would simply stand and whittle their thumbs, eventually forced to form opinions of their own. Sadly, not many people are the blacksheep of their own lives. They go along with other peoples beliefs, thence the term "popular belief". An example of this in every day conversation would be, "Contrary to popular belief, I think all cats are purple." Whether that belief is logical or not, it still happens to be a belief. Simply not a popular one. People tend to be rude to others so bold in their own beliefs because they fear that if they scream their belief too loud, too many people would start believing it. Like a snowball, the security of society and it's logic is eaten from the inside, out. The common obvious is that what people fear, is usually what people don't understand. Not understanding something, leading to fear, can lead to anger. Anger can, and almost always will if pushed to the limit, lead to someones death. Suddenly, the world is filed with purple kitties. Who knew.
The only reason so many people hold onto logic is because it's an easy shield, and part of life is spent building up basic logic in order to protect ourselves when we are very young. Thousands of years have already been spent building up logic, so much in fact, that we subconsciously make decisions based off of what we know. This is partly the reason why most children do bad things, why some children do good things, and why some children don't do anything. They don't know yet, and thence they are experimenting with their beliefs. An example would be ghosts or spirits. Children claim to see people that their parents do not. This is due in heavy part to the lack of understanding, simply without the fear. They don't know what it is. The natural reaction to something we don't know what is, is to communicate with it. Depending on how our parents raised us, we all see different things. My childhood friend sees dead people all the time. Why? Because her mother never shielded her from it. Nobody remembers who they talked to when they were wee little, and that's because our parents work hard to establish ourselves with a pre-defined defense against things in this world. As we get older, the shell of logic simply slides off, or stays on, depending on what you decide to do with your life.
Forgive me if this seems shy of insanity at a young age, I'm merely trying to capture the bigger picture.
. I cant remember ONE thing, which I would thing is 100% logic. There is even a difference between perceptions logic by variant people. 
The reason most people are stubborn specifically, is because they fear what would happen if they didn't have anything to believe in.