Why are humans so confident in beliefs that can’t be proven?

[AaronStar]

Why do you think some people are so little critical?
What do you think makes these people start believing blindly in a concept?
What is the mechanism and the reason for superficial confidence in one's beliefs?

[Hologram8]

I believe religion is bondage
I also believe it is evil
I don't like holidays
I think it's all a false abomination
everything is cultish - it bothers me

[inavalan]

Can you give some examples of beliefs that can be proven?

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by AaronStar

What do you think makes these people start believing blindly in a concept?

Because many that seem as if they are blindly believing have had direct experiences to the contrary. They are not blind at all.
(I am not a fan of Blind Faith, btw. I believe seeing is believing.)

Another reason is they are 'Right Brainers'...the artistic, intuitive side of the brain
Left Brainers do not understand Right Brainers.

Another reason - Right Brainers have a 'memory chip' in that Hemisphere that allows them to remember
past life knowledge they gleaned of how the Universe works...meditating for decades and/or sitting
at the feet of a Master many lives, for instance.

Left Brainers usually, imo, have been intellectual and logic leaners for many lives...making it very hard
to be flexible in matters of the Unseen.

From what I have learned? We are all in our perfect places.
My take, hope it helps a little.

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Right Brainers have a 'memory chip' in that Hemisphere that allows them to remember
past life knowledge they gleaned of how the Universe works...meditating for decades and/or sitting
at the feet of a Master many lives, for instance.

Made me think of Matias Stefano from Gaia tv. That ad has been popping up a lot.

I saw you in the Dolores Cannon thread!

Hi : )

[Still_Waters]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Because many that seem as if they are blindly believing have had direct experiences to the contrary. They are not blind at all.
(I am not a fan of Blind Faith, btw. I believe seeing is believing.)

Another reason is they are 'Right Brainers'...the artistic, intuitive side of the brain
Left Brainers do not understand Right Brainers.

Another reason - Right Brainers have a 'memory chip' in that Hemisphere that allows them to remember
past life knowledge they gleaned of how the Universe works...meditating for decades and/or sitting
at the feet of a Master many lives, for instance.

Left Brainers usually, imo, have been intellectual and logic leaners for many lives...making it very hard
to be flexible in matters of the Unseen.

From what I have learned? We are all in our perfect places.
My take, hope it helps a little.

When I was a child raised in the Roman Catholic religion, I firmly believed that eating meat on Friday was a mortal sin and that I could go to hell for doing so --- even accidentally --- if I did not make it to confession first. My parents believed that. My teachers at Catholic school taught that. My friends, who were all Roman Catholic , believed that. The priests taught that. The "infallible Pope" had stated that. Everyone I knew supported that position so I didn't even question it. Since we were not allowed to attend non-Catholic services, I was not exposed to other views on that subject. It was a "FACT" based on my conditioning.

Now, obviously, I know differently and can laugh at this former "deeply held religious belief" along with other previously held beliefs of a similarly dubious nature.

Like Miss Hepburn, "I am not a fan of Blind Faith, btw. I believe seeing is believing."

Fortunately, what drew me to my primary spiritual mentor was her opening statement when I first met her: "Question everything, even what I say, and, if a teacher can't point you to the direct experiences, then go elsewhere."

Seeing is believing, as Miss Hepburn so aptly articulated.

[r6r6]

Originally Posted by Still_Waters

Seeing is believing, as Miss Hepburn so aptly articulated.

Humans could not see a picture of spherical earth until 1960's yet humans made such assessment long before seeing that picture.

Also these days we can see all kinds of pictures that are not based in actual 3D reality. So seeing is not really believing in those circumstances.

We have not quantised nor quantified gravity yet most scientists believes gravity { mass-attraction } exists.

I'm sure there are more examples I'm not thinking of

[Still_Waters]

Originally Posted by r6r6r

Humans could not see a picture of spherical earth until 1960's yet humans made such assessment long before seeing that picture.

Also these days we can see all kinds of pictures that are not based in actual 3D reality. So seeing is not really believing in those circumstances.

We have not quantised nor quantified gravity yet most scientists believes gravity { mass-attraction } exists.

I'm sure there are more examples I'm not thinking of

One frequently performs "weigh and measure" reasonability checks and operates under certain reasonable understandings until proven otherwise.

However, keep in mind that there are indeed ways of "seeing" from a totally different vantage point whereby all questions are answered with no exceptions whatsoever.

Originally Posted by Still_Waters

When I was a child raised in the Roman Catholic religion, I firmly believed that eating meat on Friday was a mortal sin and that I could go to hell for doing so --- even accidentally --- if I did not make it to confession first. My parents believed that. My teachers at Catholic school taught that. My friends, who were all Roman Catholic , believed that. The priests taught that. The "infallible Pope" had stated that. Everyone I knew supported that position so I didn't even question it. Since we were not allowed to attend non-Catholic services, I was not exposed to other views on that subject. It was a "FACT" based on my conditioning.

Now, obviously, I know differently and can laugh at this former "deeply held religious belief" along with other previously held beliefs of a similarly dubious nature.

Like Miss Hepburn, "I am not a fan of Blind Faith, btw. I believe seeing is believing."

Fortunately, what drew me to my primary spiritual mentor was her opening statement when I first met her: "Question everything, even what I say, and, if a teacher can't point you to the direct experiences, then go elsewhere."

Seeing is believing, as Miss Hepburn so aptly articulated.

Interesting. I grew up in the Roman Catholic Church, and we ate meat on Fridays all the time. We tended to avoid it during lent, but even then if you slipped up unintentionally, it was an accident and no big deal. I later realized the range of beliefs that people in the same church held. They had a term for Catholics that picked and chose what parts of the faith to follow...which was pretty much all of them..."cafeteria Catholics". My mom is a devout Christian and die hard devotee and defender of the Catholic church, but it seems she is more of a picky eater.

She has more of a taste for the spiritual love based teachings of Jesus rather then the ordnung of the church. Gluttony has is own dangers....imo.

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Because many that seem as if they are blindly believing have had direct experiences to the contrary. They are not blind at all.
(I am not a fan of Blind Faith, btw. I believe seeing is believing.)

Another reason is they are 'Right Brainers'...the artistic, intuitive side of the brain
Left Brainers do not understand Right Brainers.

Another reason - Right Brainers have a 'memory chip' in that Hemisphere that allows them to remember
past life knowledge they gleaned of how the Universe works...meditating for decades and/or sitting
at the feet of a Master many lives, for instance.

Left Brainers usually, imo, have been intellectual and logic leaners for many lives...making it very hard
to be flexible in matters of the Unseen.

From what I have learned? We are all in our perfect places.
My take, hope it helps a little.

What have you seen that was not of your own mind?