05-24-2014, 04:45 AM
(05-24-2014, 03:24 AM)Folk-love Wrote: Do you think we are irrational for believing in this material and all the other things which come along with it? etc life after death, spirit guides, aliens and so on. I've been asking myself why I believe what I do lately, and I can't really answer it intellectually. I believe in something for which there is no real evidence or proof and I will always believe I imagine. And I don't really know why I will continue to do so. According to skeptics we would be classified as irrational, deluded and even crazy. People usually cite their personal experience as evidence for their beliefs. A typical argument against this is that people are simply seeing what they want to believe rather than looking at things from a scientific perspective. I kind of agree with this and notice myself throwing 'supernatural' reasons at experiences which I suppose could be explained as something like my 'mind playing tricks on me'. Sorry for this jumble of thoughts. What do you guys think?
I think that most of us here, if not all, are wanderers. So for most of us there is really no "choice" perhaps of whether we "believe" in this material or not. We simply remember it, even if we have no conscious memories of that. If we are Wanderers, and we had an existence as stated in the material for say billions of years, then yeah, there should be some traces, some recognition, *something*, when "stumbling" upon this material by "coincidence". This entity put it for instance very eloquently in one of his posts.
About seeing what one wants to believe in: firstly, if you are *wanting* to believe in something, where did that will come from? Where did you pick up that there are greater things that one can see and touch? And secondly, Ra already said that we are not part of the material universe. We are dancing thoughts. And are not imagination and beliefs thoughts? Which we are dancing?
