belief is a rash
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HERE'S WHAT I THINK
belief is a rash
Think about it, a rash is a temporary outbreak of nodes. If something is rash, then it is done out of haste and is ill conceived. Both senses of the term are in direct correlation to the idea of belief. A rash is also a symptom of something deeper that is broken.
Most of the notions [symantic nodes] we hold onto are not really thought through. I believed that chair would hold me. I believed that person would make me happy. I believed in this cosmology until I discovered _______. What is worse is that many of the notions we cling to are the result of someone else's thinking. Most of the time, that is considered because of the value of another person's belief system spread to our own.
Belief is of great value, my challenge is to examine it deeper.
Consider the source.
YOUR TURN!
belief is a rash
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coffeejunkie79 says:
Nietzsche would agree and I can see your point. Beliefs are an assumption of truth, which is a falsely... especially since truth doesn't exist... just ask Nietzsche
Posted February 12, 2008
No way, Monkeybrain!
Jon says:
Well, the first definition you give of "rash" is highly specific. There are many kinds of skin rashes besides just those that result in an "outbreak of nodes". For the second sense you mention, something that is "rash" is generally considered "ill conceived" true, but that's only because decisions made in haste aren't usually the best ones as they don't have enough time appropriated to them. However, that's not always the case...
For instance, in driving we often are forced to make "rash" decisions (in the sense of "nimble, quick, or vigorous" as etymonline states). Fortunately, many of those instinctual decisions turn out to be the right ones, otherwise we'd all be a lot more dead.
For all the times one sits in a chair and it breaks, so many other times the story is "I believed that chair would hold me, and it did, and now I'm all the more comfortable for it." Or "I believed that person would make me happy and they did and now I can share that joy with others."
Belief is ultimately a matter of pragmatic presuppositions. Depending upon what belief we're discussing, it might not be thought out at all, nor should it be. We presuppose that we exist as personal entities in an objective reality, but no matter how much thought we devote to determining the validity of that presupposition it really doesn't make a difference one way or another. We can continue to doubt ourselves into the isolation of solipsism or believe in something more than ourselves and walk out into the bright light of a vast eternal world (the cosmology of which we might never fully fathom). Either way thought--in the conventional sense--with all its temporal and spatial trappings is never going to allow us to encapsulate the boundless frontiers of eternity.
At some point you have to simply walk the endless landscape before you see any of it. You won't ever see it all, but oh the joy of walking.
Consider the source, indeed.
Posted March 07, 2010
artistcaleb says:
If truth doesn't exist, then what you said simply isn't true. Or perhaps, coffeejunkie79, you are trying to tell us that you don't exist? Odd, I could have sworn I saw your post, hmm, oh well!
Posted February 12, 2008
silverpoint23 says:
Try this; belief is the map, Truth is the terrain. Many times we think the world is flat until we are willing to explore the places in our cosmology that scare us. Your reference to Nietzsche is a perfect example of an idea rash. God is dead, truth is dead, blah, blah. These are very risky assumptions.
The point to my rant is that we quote therefore we are. I am seriously interested in a belief that coffeejunkie79 has arrived entirely on your own. It doesn't have to be original, just yours. The fact that some dead German agrees with me both proves my point and makes me want to push you into your own arrivals.
Does coffeejunkie79 have something to add to my own selfish little view of the universe?
Posted February 12, 2008
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