Many of the arguments on here, come from people telling others how things are, how to think, how they should be, what is real and what is not.
I too play my part in this, i have also stated things as truth, when in reality, i do not know the absolute truth, and neither does any one else.
So, if we were to start again, and remember, none of us really know, then this would be a good place to start.
We all have experiences, we all have had our moments of thinking, wow, this is it, this is real, only to be let down.
Many of us base our beliefs on our feelings, or things we have heard that sound good, or that we wish for to be true, but unfortunately, none of us know, so none of us have the right, to belittle others, for not believing what they do, because the person in question who is belittiling another, may also hold onto a false belief as truth.
Noun 1. false belief - a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
fallacy
pseudoscience - an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions
misconception - an incorrect conception
logical fallacy - a fallacy in logical argumentation
pathetic fallacy - the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects; `the friendly sun' is an example of the pathetic fallacy
sophism, sophistry, sophistication - a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
paralogism - an unintentionally invalid argument
Common Reasons for False Beliefs
Misleading information from other people
The "others" that mislead us may be authorities or people promoting a product or friends or parents or just about anybody or everybody. They may believe what they say or they may be intentionally deceptive or they may be blatantly lying. Nevertheless, a great deal of what we believe, true or false, we believe because we have heard it from others. We are forced to depend on others for much of our knowledge, so we need to learn as much as we can about how to separate the reliable from the unreliable.
Cultural assumptions
This is a special case of believing others: when virtually everyone in the culture shares the belief. This can be particularly tricky since we are likely to just assume the belief is true. We may never realize there could be a question about it. In many cultures in the past, it was assumed that women were not suited for leadership roles. Everyone simply "knew" it. It was not something that needed to be justified or explained.
Wishful thinking
It is common to find people who have an unrealistic belief in something because that is what they wish were true. They may overestimate their chances of becoming a professional athlete or writing a best selling novel. They may think their child who is slow in school is really very bright but just never given a chance by the teachers. They may believe that some unrealistic claim for a diet or exercise program or arthritis cure is genuine because they want it to work.
Jumping to conclusions
We may draw a conclusion based on too little evidence or evidence that is invalid. If Joe tripped coming up the steps the first time you saw him, you might assume he is clumsy (but this may be the first time he has tripped in five years). If we read about a couple of airliner crashes, we may assume airliners are unsafe. In this case the evidence is misleading because the newspapers report mainly the crashes - rarely the much more common safe landings.
Quantities too big or small to be intuitive
When a senator talks about a program that wastes five billion dollars and another program that wastes five hundred thousand dollars, both these numbers are outside the bounds of our normal intuition. The first waste is ten thousand times more costly than the second. Small probabilities are a similar problem. How great is the risk of being killed by a terrorist while on a European vacation as opposed to being killed on a ten mile bicycle excursion? We can easily form very unrealistic priorities based on quantities that we can't evaluate intuitively.
Polarization: Emotional attachment to one side of an issue
A common, but very serious situation occurs when we become emotionally attached to one side of an issue. Often the problem starts because someone we respect persuades us that a particular "cause" is vitally important but threatened by sinister and corrupt opponents. We start to think of our side as good and the other side as evil. We trust the evidence for our side without questioning whether it might be faulty, and we hastily reject arguments against our position as deception by our evil opponents. It is difficult for us to evaluate new evidence fairly since we are so afraid of siding with the enemy and we hate to disagree with our allies. We might even become so emotionally involved that we feel violence or other unethical practices are justified. Many bitter political, religious, ethnic, and even family conflicts involve polarization.
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I suppose the reason why iam posting this, is because, im tired of arguing with people, other humans, who otherwise, i would probabaly get along with, if it were not for our tendancy to always be right in our supposed beliefs, and at the end of the day, our beliefs are not truth, so no matter how much we try to defend them, we dont really have a leg to stand on, we are all on shaky ground!
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So~!~Did this post become many of the arguments or false believes, or the true ones.....................?
so many arguing..........................
Words to remember for yourself. If you think your beliefs are immune to being cast off in the illusion you are mistaken
If you canot prove it to anyone else its only in your head. This is called a DELUSION. En Francais c'est "illusion"
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[dih-loo-zhuhn] Show IPAThanks MoL....it's important....to be in the now...to be connected to your inner self, your inner being. That's how things become truly real. And you know....I'm learning now how very powerful that truly is...and if you're able to master it...you can literally become or make real anything you want. But..on the contrary...and I'm learning this too...if you haven't quite mastered it...you can become and make real things you really won't like lol Like Tolle says, the power of now....the power of the inner being...the power of positivity...the power of I AM...there's so much power in that....and when they work together harmoniously....I don't think there's much we can't create for ourselves, in our now.
Well thanks lol And I'm at a point in my life right now, where I'm only going by what I can truly realize and understand, deep within my self, my being. Everything else, exists as a belief...and it may be a true belief, it may help us with true realization, but as long as it's a belief....for you...it exists as just that...a belief. It's not something you truly know, or realize, or understand. It may make sense logically...and my mom always says, truth is logic and logic is truth lol But that's not the case, it really isn't. There's alot of things her logic tells her is truth, that clearly isn't lol
And 6th sense is good, I have a pretty good intuition, and can read people and situations pretty clearly. And, like you...usually it's very accurate. But, that's a sense of truth...it's not real true knowing, and I realize that. It's a good tool to get to true realization though.
Well I've made predictions, and have had successes with telepathy and clairvoyance and all that stuff. But I still won't make the jump and say, I knew it. That was reading the energy, that was thought transference, that was a 6th sense, if you will. Inner knowing, or inner realization, from deep within your being...is something totally different. And I think ultimately that's what true knowing is, that's the key to ascension. That's how we truly come to know ourselves as God, as divine, as love. You may think you know, already...yes I'm God, I'm divine, I'm love, oh yes lol But do you really KNOW it. Not know it, or believe it, intellectually...not even as an inner sense. But a true realization, a true knowing. Because by that...there's actually very few things we truly know, at our level right now.
this is a quick try. . I'd assume it has flaws in it. . I have not looked over it long to see if it can hold up over acc scrutiny xD. . so shoot :p
when your building a brick house every brick is truth, when you built the house the house is then truth. . including every brick separately as well. .
someone else did the same as you next door :). . their "house" does not look like your built house. . infact maybe its even not really meant to be used as a house all together. . but you are curious. . so you go check out what cool thing your neighbour built now. .
you go over and say. . "aww man, what a cool truth". . your neighbour looks over at you a little weird and says. . "what"?. .
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The truth is, we can't know what the truth is lol Not at our level. We can have our perspective, our beliefs, our ideas, our intuitive senses...but that doesn't necessarily make it the truth. And it's important to acknowledge that. Any identification, whatsoever, is based in ego. Ultimately, we just are. I am that I am. Everything else, is based in illusion, to some degree.
So it's good to start detaching yourself from your beliefs, just a little bit...because they're not who you are. And, it'll make it easier for you to not take it so personally when people challenge your beliefs, or have different beliefs than you. It'll make it easier to get into a unity consciousness, when there's not this belief system division, and my beliefs vs your beliefs game that everyone plays all the time.
Ultimately none of us know what the real truth is, with certainty. Your mind may think you do, but..you don't. There's actually very few things we truly know for certain, with a full and complete realization. So it's good to keep open to everything, even the things that you don't believe...because ultimately, as human beings right now...we're not at a level where we can truly be in tune with the One Truth.
Hi one, in my view, your categorizing humans into a love and lighter status, does nothing to give a clearer comprehension of beliefs.
The mainstream masses of people following societal systems, are the ones in most need of discerning a hypothesis from a proven hypothesis.
Many of these mainstream masses still believe they are free, in truth they are, though relative to the false beliefs many of them hold onto, that true freedom would be difficult at best to practice, due to many following false beliefs.
As they say, we are our own worst enemy and at the same time, we are the ones we have been waiting for, a paradox.
peace love light
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