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belief - 01-06-2006, 04:09 PM

The most important thing to know about psychology is that the only way the mind knows anything is by what it is able to believe. As such all knowledges and truths are merely simple beliefs. In this manner scientists are kidding themselves to think that their knowledge is not based on belief. Knowledge is belief; there is no arguing the fact.

Now when we see things which substantiate our beliefs it makes us believe very strongly in our beliefs. Some may call this proof, but it is not so, it is merely very convincing. So in reality proof is a misnomer, and there is only belief.

Therefore science is a misnomer which believes itself. Science is no more than a dressed up religion that is very convincing. Until science can admit to belief, it is weak, and it is self limiting. Now this is not to say that religion is better per se, religion has it's drawbacks as well in the way it is actually rendered. Sometimes religion thinks it is more than a system of beliefs, and that is when religion gets out of bounds. Plus sometimes religion is less convincing than science with regard to examples which serve to convince.

The Theory of Everything on the other hand is better than science OR religion. It is not so much an awkward fusion of the two, as it is something completely different and unprecedented, which takes the best of both worlds. The TOE acknowledges the foundation of belief, and this is why it does not believe itself as science does. The TOE is based on virtue and nothing else. To understand it you must believe in it, but to do that is irrelevant, for the TOE is true no matter what you believe in. Thus belief is only logical.

Last edited by zeroca : 02-03-2006 at 03:18 AM.
  
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