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A believer of reality or in own faith?

What do you believe in life? I don’t mean all those obvious surface stuff.. i mean something you believe deep down in u..some thing you hold on to in hard times..something u base ur life decisions and direction on to..

hmm..a simple example for easier understanding..In general– if you’re a believer of “good”, you won’t make decisions that will harm others (if it was in ur power to do so, or at least not purposely). On the other hand, if you don’t believe in good ( doesn’t necesarily means u believe in “evil”), then you might focus more own how to benefit/etc when solving somekind of conflict or problem.

There are things that we choose to believe and there are things that we are trained/influenced/taught/shaped to believe in. Depending largely on what continent in the world you were born and what colour of skin u have and etc. In many cases, education of our caretakers (ie. Parent) and also ourselves.

That leads to my 1st curiosity of the amount of people that actually consciously choose their believe(s)? Some friends i know just goes along with what people “usually” do. hmm, forgot about the term used in psychology,there is a theory on this kind of behaviour..where people have the believe that what the majority is doing is the correct/safest/best way of doing things. hmm..I’m not judging, but that is,e….half true~ as what we learn in history of mankind, that there are lots of time where the minorities were the ones with the correct believe. But if often seems that lots of malaysian has that kind of to do what others do mindset.

Well, I suppose i should not be saying lots of Malaysian as I never read about this particular study. XP

Anyway, back to the main thing, believes. Have you have any believes that you hold so tight on being proven by your experience in life,  that it is incorrect.. For instance, people use to believe so strongly that earth is square, when they were proven wrong, how did it effect them??Which leads me to where i’m really going to…how will a shattered believe effect some one (or izit affect? lol XD)…well, it’s common sense..It depends on what you believe in and how does that thing works around your life.

Going in a little deeper.. For instance, you believe strongly in science, or at least logic thinking and proves…and you also believe in Karma…and lets just say your believe in Karma leads to you being a good person (doing good deeds and all). Assume that suddenly some lunatic empirical study proves that there is no karma, just how people deal with their deeds makes the difference (or whatever theory he can come out with). Would you change ur behaviour and be more “self-concerned”? What about hell and heavan?? What if there is really nothing after life?? Won’t you think lots of people will want to get more in life rather than just pleasing other ppl’s thoughts?

If you believe that you would not change and still continue be the “good” guy, can you be sure that you are not doing it just because everyone is doing it, and NOT because YOU BELIEVE in it? then what makes u sure that you won;t change when others changed? Anyways , if that is the case, then why have that believe in the first place?? So have something to hold on to? as a guide line? or is it because we were brought up to believe in those behaviours?

Which sometimes leads to the believe of doing something to serve own purpose to be “selfish”. Don’t think that’s true? try looking at it this way… A person who just likes to use lots and lots of plastic bags…bad for environment, good for himself cos he does not want to spend his effort in being environmental friendly…he is ignorant??selfish??a jerk??idiot maybe??

Even the believe of what’s right and wrong would change…Well, i don’t mean that everyone would suddenly kill another person to get their money, but maybe more will be more straight forward in achieving what they wanted (maybe will show more in work life kua) and public perception of backstabbing might just change to just a kind of strategy in obtaining result. (btw, i know there are people with this kind of thinking and still, for me, It’s not right or wrong, it’s just what they believe in)

Anyway, the focus is on the effect of shattered believes/logics/rasionalisations..

Well, I believe that we evolve and move forward throught our experience and daily encounters..Althought i do try not to change only after bad experiences, learning throught other’s mistakes and by trying to think a head is so much lesser painful experience although it’s not 1st hand encounter. That said, I have my fair shair of bad experiences non the less~ hahaha

It’s getting late, so that’s it for now… untill next time, bye~

(btw: type this since last night before sleep around till around 1.30am but only manage to publish it this evening thanks to insufficient rest & friendster blog extreemly long loading time)