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Belief is an amazing thing. It has the power to move mountains (quite literally), and the power to move people. Belief is inspiring and helpful. It can also be a force for evil.
Belief misused or misguided can cause disaster.
The most remarkable thing about belief is that it doesn’t require proof.
Belief is like faith in that respect, but belief is not always the same thing as faith.
For example: some people believe that a vitamin C tablet (or 8 or 9) taken daily will successfully prevent colds. Those people who put themselves under that self-prescription will sing the praises of it at the drop of a hat, and if they catch a cold, will have ample “proof” that it would have been worse without the C, or that it isn’t really a cold.
Now, before you get all up in arms… I’m not putting down belief. We all live with it. In fact, without it we couldn’t survive a day.
We BELIEVE, for example, that we can drive at very high speeds on a two-way road, and that a yellow line will prevent an on-coming car from taking us out in a head-on convergence.
We BELIEVE that locking our windows at night will prevent break-ins.
We BELIEVE what candidates for political office say, they will do. (In spite of that seldom—if ever—happening in practice).
We BELIEVE in doors. Imagine if we have to first figure out what a door was, then test it scientifically, every time we wanted to leave a room. We would be endlessly hampered.
Why am I bringing this up?
Because I have decided to believe a new thing. I have decided BELIEVE what Dr. David Agus says in his new book, End of Illness. I have decided to BELIEVE so strongly, that I’m adopting his ideas so that I might live a better, stronger, and longer life.
After all, dead writers can’t produce new stories and books.
Do you BELIEVE that?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio... and isn't it time you experienced some of them?
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I definitely believe that keeping good health is largely dependent on one’s state of mind. (Learned that from the Buddhists)>
I certainly agree with that. I’d had a terrible time sticking to any kind of weight-loss plan, but once I finally made up my mind, the process has been by far less difficult. Now, committed to exercise, eating better, and watching meds and glucose levels, I’m feeling stronger, more energetic (and lighter!)
Ricky,
Excellent post! I don’t think there is a human being without belief. The self-called atheists refer to others as “believers” but thinking, embracing, or whatever that there is no G-d; that is a belief. A belief that it is not tested not explored by the atheist.
In regards to the books and the medicines, alternative medicines, that appear everyday; we can give them a try as far as we don’t put our lives at risk.
I believe in the strength of believing. It moves us ahead. It gives us something to work on and get inspired every day.
I agree that everyone believes in something. Of course I do not mean only in a spiritual way. Spiritual beliefs are not for everyone, but, as I pointed out above, we could not survive without taking certain things as truth in the Universe.