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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I read through most of this post, skimmed through the parts I've heard so many times before... What's interesting is: People tend to hurl themself with all their power against what they think is not correct according to their teachings, trying to rip it to shreds and remove every evidence of it ever existing. Why? Only very few things can trigger such an emotional reaction. The most likely one seems to be fear. Fear of being proven wrong, riddiculed because they've [i]known[/i] something for so long and it turns out to be utterly wrong. Haven't you ever misunderstood something, and then long after realized what you [i]knew[/i] was completely nonsense? I bet it made you extremely angry at first. You have been living your life in perfect harmony with what you [i]knew[/i] until one day it was shattered, everything turned upside down and you had to reavaluate lots of your related [i]knowledge[/i]. We fear being wrong, which makes us [i]believe[/i] what we have been taught even more until we [i]know[/i] it to be true since we've found somehting supporting the [i]belief[/i]. Until somebody finds the pillar holding it all up, and tips it over. Here's where doubt comes in. If you doubt what you know, only believe it. Belief is not knowledge. Be careful when knowing what you believe. Doubting beliefs doesn't hurt half as much as doubting knowledge. Each and every religion in the world, in some way, says they know their beliefs to be true. I say, it's still beliefs, thinking you know it doesn't make it more true! People will only get irritated if a believer keeps repeating he knows his beliefs are true whey they themselves don't believe. If the believers were satisfied with believing, we'd not have half the troubles caused by religion today because they would be generally more accepted. If you believe in x, it's fine by me as long as you don't say you know x to be true, for then you're automatically in conflict with other peoples beliefs [i]and[/i] knowledge. My point is: Okay if you offer to put forward your beliefs and the related arguments, I have nothing against that, but there's a reason to why it's called belief in the first place. Hmm, I think I lost my track somewhere, oh well... might as well stop talking and let someone else wear the cozy tight jacket with long arms and sit on the center chair... Btw, go watch that episode of SouthPark, it does have a point, as has been noted before in this thread. /TwoD Loading...
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