Believing In?
What do you believe in?
The Beauty of Believing
Published 04/09/2011 | 
When You Believe
Believing into something is what we live for in our lives daily and without these sets of beliefs we would not live a single day.
The way we live everyday is the reflection of our respective beliefs in life. Take for example a vegetarian will not live up on eating vegetables daily or if he or she does not believe that eating fruits and vegetable will be good for his or her health, is not it? Or does a Muslim live in an Islam way if a Muslim does not believe in Islam?
Believing on something whether on health or on religion or whatever you wanted to believe, you automatically grafted it on your lifestyle or way of life. If believing in magic makes you ecstatic, you tend to have many books about magic enchantment in your shelves and always dreamy; or if believing in prayer exhorts and comforts you in times of trouble and despair, you become prayerful when everything gets rough.
It is so easy to distinguish what we believe in even though we don’t tell it to anyone about our beliefs because it is reflected on the way we live our life, in the way we act and behave, in the way speak and utter words and carry conversation, and in the way we think. Those are believing in Jesus ‘ability to save them will always utter and profess Jesus as their personal savior; Likewise when one is notice of being defending Islam religion. For one who obviously saying that believing in Islam religion is the only way to worship God, you already get what is revolving in his or her mind.
However, some says they don’t have any belief, defining the word belief as mere believing God. But contrary to what they believe that the word belief is equal in believing in God, the word beliefs means a general attribution of any of what you think of and live for even though you are an atheist you still have belief, that is, not believing in God and your personal sets of beliefs you have and live by. See, you have belief and the word belief does not always refer or connotes as believing in God’s existence.
It is obvious that we could live our live without any belief we keep and live up and hold onto. The best belief we all have is we believe that we exist and do not stop believing it; else if we stop believing we exist every day, I think we are all dead and non-existing.
See, when we believe we Live. We hold on to that belief whatever it is and if we let go of one belief, we adopt then another new belief to be grafted on our way of life or lifestyle. Thus, we never let go on believing even though we change our beliefs and don’t believe on what others believe. We never really stop believing on anything and whatever we would like to believe in.
However, sometimes what we believe in leads us to danger and peril if what we believe in is not right but perverted like syndicates and criminals.
Please Don’t Stop Believing
Published 04/09/2011 | The Mystery of Believing
Faith is what we have inherently in our nature but if it is use without intelligence by just believing in anything what is said to you without assessing it logically, that faith could ruin and devastate your life.
Faith is really mysterious because you are believing in what you are not certain and sure of and what your eyes do not yet see and touch. Believing in to something quickly like for examplebelieving in God’s existence deviate the realm of logical thinking as some rationalist would say. Before believing in to something immediately, you got to see first that it exist and it is true as most rationalist and realist would suggest if you don’t want yourself to fall into the trap of fraud. Yes, because most people so often given quickly their trust to anyone, they sometimes end up being trapped on a fraudulent activity or become a defenseless victim of the one who deceives them into believing that this and that could make them rich, could give them health, could give them a supernatural powers like in believing in magic formulas, believing in prayer requests which sometimes have charge disguised in a form of donation, believing in love matches which so often not true, and most of all believing in religions’ empty promises of salvation and afterlife which are evidently hegemonic in nature, exploiting people’s money through so called “tithing” and enslaving people through instilling fear and “master-servant” mindset and hate to other religions which does not belong to their own religion which only causes disunity, animosity, discrimination, prejudice, and atrocity to their fellowmen instead of harmony, unity, love, understanding, peace, kindness, respect for life, and equality.
Yes, these would be the result or eventualities of too much faith or too much believing into something. There is term for too much faith beyond already the realm of reason and logic, that is, fanaticism.
Fanaticism is no more spirituality because it is already a blind obsession on something or so called “blind faith” because fanaticism and the fanatics have only one eyes and one sided mind. That is what they only see is the one they obsessively adore, worship and believe in but blind to other things happening around them and their logic, reasoning and intelligence have been eclipse by their fanaticism. Yap, they have been transform into what their religious leaders or religious masters want them to be – slaves and servants. Is this salvation anyway? Perhaps, enslavery and mind control.
What I have discussed above is one of the failures and disasters or in a euphemistic term, a disadvantage of too much believing in to something. Too much faith could make any one blind. Yap, it is the “much” that is always wrong because too “much” is no longer good as what they say.
But faith or believing in have of course good side or advantages, it is only the “too much” that will lead us into a wrong way or will mislead us. Actually, faith and trust keep us work together peacefully with other people or which keeps our community, society, and our world working together harmoniously. For without believing and trusting other people, we could not build any relationship that builds and strengthens our community, our society and our world.
So all I can say don’t stop believing.