Comments on: believe in nothing

By: moe

moe — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:15:33 +0000

I recently read this, and I think it applies:

http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/hsin.htm

By: leandra

leandra — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:20:42 +0000

thank you for giving me something to think about.

By: fladap

fladap — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:14:32 +0000

point taken. thanks for enlightenment leandra.

By: leandra

leandra — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:52:00 +0000

fladap, i concur that believing in ‘nothing’ is believing in ’something,’ but it is definitely a dramatic paradigm shift.

you go from “i think this is important” to “i don’t think necessarily think it is. why or why not?”

it will be however dramatic you allow it to be. when you start to look at social conventions such as relationships and marriage, religion, social, economic and political structure, beauty, education, etc., you can get into some really deep things. and your mind MAY change about a lot.

this is an interesting path to travel down because the hardest and most important part isn’t the releasing of what you formerly believed, but what you begin to believe after that process.

it is totally freeing, yet ridiculously scary, to release your preconceived notions in order to define your own world. i’ve done it once before and i need to do it again.

By: fladap

fladap — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:42:27 +0000

I totally understand where your coming from with this idea, it reverts to Ghandis yearn for us to “question everything” and find truth in us and the world around us.

But to not “believe in nothing” is the SAME as “believing in something” because in the end you hope that your decision to believe or not was right for “defining your life”. So there couldn’t be a drastic paradigm shift.

“…I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else” c s lewis