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environment around you? Do you think there is something bout our mind we don't know about... like if I sincerely believe that my lucky charm works is there more of a chance it will make me win at bingo?
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Do you think if you strongly believe something, your beliefs directly impact the
GraFiK MunKieZ
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An average person believes what they want to believe and fear what they want to fear.. same thing along the lines of when "your imagination runs away from you"
Alan Turing
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No. Beliefs do not directly influence the environment any more than any other supposed paranormal behavior.
Although beliefs have caused many people to lose their jobs, marriages, families, and even their lives because of beliefs so strongly held by so many people that their acts of abuse were not seen as being hostile.
The only thing that beliefs actually influence is how deluded the believer can become.
Although beliefs have caused many people to lose their jobs, marriages, families, and even their lives because of beliefs so strongly held by so many people that their acts of abuse were not seen as being hostile.
The only thing that beliefs actually influence is how deluded the believer can become.
Alan Turing
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No. Beliefs do not directly influence the environment any more than any other supposed paranormal behavior.
Although beliefs have caused many people to lose their jobs, marriages, families, and even their lives because of beliefs so strongly held by so many people that their acts of abuse were not seen as being hostile.
The only thing that beliefs actually influence is how deluded the believer can become.
Although beliefs have caused many people to lose their jobs, marriages, families, and even their lives because of beliefs so strongly held by so many people that their acts of abuse were not seen as being hostile.
The only thing that beliefs actually influence is how deluded the believer can become.
GraFiK MunKieZ
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An average person believes what they want to believe and fear what they want to fear.. same thing along the lines of when "your imagination runs away from you"
You walk a narrow line with this question. If you believe a truck is not humming down the highway, while the person next to you, and the driver of the truck, believe that one is, whenever you step into the road in front of the truck you will likely get hurt very badly.
However, not all of the environment is as obvious as a truck. In the sense that many factors, both cosmological and scientific, are not as obvious as a truck, belief in these factors may, in many instances, affect your response to your environment, thus changing the reality of the environment for you. This change may well not include others who are not convinced.
In either case, the environment is not changed by your belief, but your response and interaction with the environment is influenced by your belief, creating the impression that your belief has altered the environment.
I once became so convinced that the Peter Pan thing about flying simply by being convinced, with the addition of a little fairy dust, would allow a person to fly. I have had super-real dreams of doing just that. Levitation! In the back of my mind, I still am convinced of this obvious fiction....if it moved to the front of my mind, would I be able to fly? Probably not.
Belief in your lucky charm probably helps you judge events as being lucky. It does not actually have any effect on them.
However, not all of the environment is as obvious as a truck. In the sense that many factors, both cosmological and scientific, are not as obvious as a truck, belief in these factors may, in many instances, affect your response to your environment, thus changing the reality of the environment for you. This change may well not include others who are not convinced.
In either case, the environment is not changed by your belief, but your response and interaction with the environment is influenced by your belief, creating the impression that your belief has altered the environment.
I once became so convinced that the Peter Pan thing about flying simply by being convinced, with the addition of a little fairy dust, would allow a person to fly. I have had super-real dreams of doing just that. Levitation! In the back of my mind, I still am convinced of this obvious fiction....if it moved to the front of my mind, would I be able to fly? Probably not.
Belief in your lucky charm probably helps you judge events as being lucky. It does not actually have any effect on them.