What do you feel is the true meaning of the word belief?
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Religion is not a definition to the word belief. What do you think is its true meaning?
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My belief is my personal conviction, my faith and my life's principle. It is at once emotion and mental thought. If I believe strongly, belief is certainty. It is in my mind and heart. I act on my beliefs and I fight for and defend them. When belief concerns my religion and thoughts of God, I act accordingly and live my religion.
My beliefs are at my very core.
Yes our beliefs are part of us as live and as we experiece with others we create either more beliefs or change the ones we have. Our beliefs are part of us spiritually and live them in the physical experience regardless of what they are or how dumb they may be to others.
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Thanks Kellie. Much appreciated! Heidi
To an open mind, it's a transient opinion, subject to extreme modification; to a closed mind, it's a final, completely unchangeable opinion.
Wow - that's a great question, Kellie. I have deleted several times in answering this. I think belief is living your life based on what you trust to be true. Whether you apply it to God, or belief in a government, or trusting your spouse, belief is the result of what you trust. Belief is an action verb more than a noun, in my opinion.
I've always marveled at dictionaries and the panels of people who put them together. What is so marvelous to me is that they find ways to define words with other words without simply using the same sorts of words over and over.
Take "belief" for example ... since you brought it up ... my first inclination is to say that a belief is a concept that you believe to be true. Oops! Believe/belief ... how awkward.
I have a cheap little dictionary on the shelf above my computer to help me out with quick fixes (I have two giant dictionaries for when I want to enjoy some fun with words). That dictionary doesn't even have a separate listing for the word belief. Instead it puts it under "believe:" believe v.t. to regard as true; to trust; v.i. to have faith (in); to suppose. belief n. full acceptance of a thing as true; a firm persuasion of the truth of a body of religious tenets. believable a. credible. -r n. to make believe, to pretend.
You can't really look at words as finite objects that stand alone because we all bring our own concepts to the conversation. But I have an inclination, at times like these when I am asked to assign meaning to a word, to do just that. I find that my little dictionary has, in the first definition given, defined the word "belief" to my satisfaction and I am fine with giving it no more meaning than that.
Total Answers: 5, Total Page Views: 447.A belief is a fixed judgment, on a particular subject. What one determines is the truth.
But there are MANY truths, not just one.
Truth is like an onion with many layers; some people have more layers than others, but no one has the ultimate, full onion, truth.
I think the ultimate version or perception of truth is quite simple. Live without lies, without believing the lie we may be living in. Freedom, simple freedom and
your belief in that
The truth is tightly wrapped and protected, by lies.
Indeed Paul thats exactly that. But is wrapped around it and why is it protected? Is it so the people will never wake up??
It's interesting to think about. What if one wakes up and then another and
another? And they discover they are living in a lie. What then?
Can they use their freewill to choose how they want to live or behave? Yes.
But then what happens to one or many who discover they're awake thus force them against their
freewill to live the way they choose?
Karma my dear Watson, Karma they attract to them and its kind of ugly indeed.
A TOAST to waking up and Freewill
Kellie
I shall drink, to that!
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