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.
Believing in Religion and Magic
Published 04/07/2011 | Defense and Attack Mode
Defense mode that is we defend our belief systems against someone who will attack what we believed in, and Attack mode in other hand, is our attitude of attacking other people’s what they believe in. Take for example, if one believes in magic, the other one who does not believed on it will attack the believers of it. Like in Christianity, believing in magic is said to be satanic and demonic, for to believe in magic as modern Christianity teaches is not believing in god at all. For believing in magic is believing in witchcraft, which of Satan or devil, as the modern Christianity teaches. And from this standpoint, it is evident that Faith divides humanity rather than uniting them.
The Effects of Believing in and not believing in
What does believing have brought into us? And similarly, what does not believing on anything have also brought into us?
We have already discuss above that believing in on anything and not having a consensus to your fellow men who have an opposite belief or contradictory belief to what you belief in will only cause dispute, strife, intense argument and even slandering act, which is sometimes becomes the major reason for war outbreaks like the Muslim-Christian Crusade Wars in the middle ages.
Even today this Muslim-Christian has not ended both parties were throwing muds to one another, that according to them both have corrupted the Abrahamic scriptures. Is this a good example to drive converts to their respective belief systems? Certainly it is not, for because of this useless wranglings, many now despises in believing in religion that causes only strifes like these two major religions of our world causes. Thus, many inquire about meditative religion such like the Buddhism or Hinduism religion.
Therefore if believing in has somewhat not good effects to us humans like we have discuss above, what does “not believing” on anything bring the non-believers?
A non-believer or one who stop believing in to anything (but this is impossible, for any being even if one is an atheist has its own set of beliefs, for if one does not have any beliefs, that one is a Dead thing) if there is one, that one is a living dead. For how can one live if one does not even believe that he or she is alive?
Anyway, a non-believer, for example on Islam or on God will lose some important ideas and insights regarding such beliefs but if a non-believer to it cares (of course, one does not care because one does not believe on the ideas of Islam or about god), that would be beneficial to one’s intelligence or spiritual journey.
Believing In God, Jesus, Prayers, Love
Published 04/07/2011 | Believing in to anything you would like to believe will surely have a great impact on your way of life, because believing to something is choosing what way of life you will live.
Believing in to something, like believing in love, believing in god, believing in magic, believing in prayer powers, et cetera builds up sometimes our spiritual confidence and spiritual ego. However, sometimes it ruins us if what we believe in is actually wrong and destructive in nature once we realized its true colors and effects on us. But despite of all of this negativity, some still don’t stop believing to what they believe but remain steadfast.
Furthermore, believing in to something and not believing to something as well, is a matter of choice and motivation of our mind. It is on our hands which one we will embrace on our way of life. That is, ifbelieving in Jesus or believing in Islam makes our life complete, so it be.
Why does believing in is so powerful to control us?
Yes, have you ever wonder why our life is wrap up on believing into this and that, we can’t breath as long as we do not believe we are breathing or alive. That is really an amazing fact and mysterious truth that perplex us. How such faith on anything molds our entire way of life.
We wonder why this is so?
Faith is really an integral part of our existence and the motivation of our mind. It is the on and off button that turns our mind to be programmed like this or that, and our pre-programmed mindset is reflected on the way we live our lives. Take for example, if our minds have been programmed that eating fruits and vegetables makes us healthy, we then live up that belief buy really eating fruits and veggies in our diet or daily meals, we even then buy or plant ones on our backyards or courts. Moreover, some even make a pro-active campaign for it or a promotional campaign that supports and that advocates it, that eating fruits and vegetables makes us healthy.
However, in the contrary, if one does not believe that eating fruits and vegetables makes us healthy, that non-believer will not support such campaign but rather counter-ruin it by exposing ideas or insights or another belief contrary to it. Moreover, you can also see on the daily meal or diet of this non-believer a zero fruit and vegetable servings; neither can you see any fruit-trees or vegetables plants on one’s yard or courts.
This is just a simple example of the major reasons why world-religions today, especially Christian and Muslims were opposing one another or in war against one another.
What you believe in Causes division
Disputes, fightings, strifes, contentions, Wars, and similar sort, what do they have in common? They are clashes and collisions of one’s personal belief systems. One argues that believing in these things is blasphemy or idolatry but the other one argues that believing in these things is not a blasphemy or not idolatry at all as one’s opponent trying to argue or fight. And when both parties does not have consensus to what they argue about, war starts!
See, what does believing in Jesus, believing in god, believing in Christianity, believing in Islam,believing in religion, et cetera has brought into us humans. Believing in whatever we believed sometimes put us in a defense mode or attack mode to our fellow human beings who have different belief systems against us.