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Just like it says on the box, we have a kind of poll-esque thingy, but using comments.
So, seeing as how I have little of interest to post at the moment, I thought I'd ask such folk as feel inclined to tell me about their particular flavour of religiosity in a comment.
In more depth: This is entirely optional, but I think it'd be interesting and fun to learn what the people who read my journal think and believe about life, the universe and everything. Feel free to include anything you feel is interesting, noteworthy or pertinent, don't hesitate to mix in links as desired, and don't feel like you have to say anything you don't particularly want to.
The comments will be screened; if you'd like yours to be unscreened, then just say so.
Needless to say, those who use others' comments to spark flamewars will be hacked to bits by hungry, angry cannibals. You have been warned. Hungry, angry cannibals are standing by.
So, seeing as how I have little of interest to post at the moment, I thought I'd ask such folk as feel inclined to tell me about their particular flavour of religiosity in a comment.
In more depth: This is entirely optional, but I think it'd be interesting and fun to learn what the people who read my journal think and believe about life, the universe and everything. Feel free to include anything you feel is interesting, noteworthy or pertinent, don't hesitate to mix in links as desired, and don't feel like you have to say anything you don't particularly want to.
The comments will be screened; if you'd like yours to be unscreened, then just say so.
Needless to say, those who use others' comments to spark flamewars will be hacked to bits by hungry, angry cannibals. You have been warned. Hungry, angry cannibals are standing by.
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Unscreen this if you want... whatever
Date: 2006-04-20 05:25 pm (UTC)There's your regular rock-solid "I know this is true" beliefs that join gravity and whatnot in being not so much beliefs as knowledge - that is, you could be wrong, but it's extremely unlikely.
Then you've got the beliefs that aren't knowledge, but are really really ingrained in your personality so that while you might admit that they don't have such solid foundations, you're not going to stop believing them because that would mean a midlife crisis/nervous breakdown/brain transplant equivalent.
After that are the things that you choose to believe until further notice - that is, big life questions that don't have factual answers, things science might prove in a couple of years, or by 2020 for certain, srsly - whatever: you're fairly confident as to what the right answer will be, but you're aware that it hasn't been proven and it's just a matter of faith. If more religious people placed their beliefs in this category, there would be much less conflict and stuff.
Closely linked with that are things that you choose to believe simply because it's a useful way to think. For instance, philosophically speaking, there is no real value on individual human lives, let alone that of animals - but society would be royally fucked if everyone went around killing people, so you choose to make life sacred because it eliminates a whole heap of problems, vis a vis jail and the breakdown of civilisation. I mean, most people have "thou shalt not kill" in the second category ANYWAY, but I'm just using it as an example. This more usually applies to things on a please and thank you level, up to petty theft.
The last one (I think) is casual beliefs - things you pick up and throw down as the weather changes, that you're not too attached to, you're just believing it until something contradictory comes your way.
I suppose you might count the things that you don't actually believe, you're just using as a starting point for speculation - for instance you don't belive in global warming, but think like you do for a little to write a story about it.