Thursday, July 28, 2011

My thoughts about belief

In my opinion, religion is a specific kind of belief and it is included in the region of belief. Nearly all the things in the religion can not be proved or seen by the people around the world, but people still try to be loyal to the tenets , the words by their religionous leaders. Just like what I have said on the class, in some religions, poeple are told that if they do something good when they are alive in the world and you will go to paradise after death. Itself is quite weird, because nobody has ever seen the paradise, but these loyal people still stick to these tenets.

Maybe religion is a kind of belief that may has something to do with the God. However, normal belief is quite common in our daily life. The belief is in our mind and we do what exactly what the belief requires to do and always hope to get what the belief has promised to give us. For instance, children in remote area of China are always told to study hard and try best to be admitted in some famous universities in big cities like Shanghai, Beijing, and then you will find a job in the big cities and stay there to have a more comfortable life that is much better than the miserable and poor life in the remote area. This is just the belief that exists in millions of teenagers in these backward area, and they stick to it and pay their efforts without hesitation. When they finally pay whatever they can and ask for the belief to make his promise, the Mr belief says that I am a wrong belif, and I can never give you what you originally want, because job competition has bacome so firece that it is hard for these children to find a job in big cities and the price of apartments is so high that it may take their lifetime to purchase them. It is so pathetic... Being rebelled by one's belief can be some kind of the most cruel things in the world. The pain brought about by it can hardly be measured by money and energy. Someone lose heart for good after they are rebelled by belief, Some still keep going and sticks to their original belief, others change their belief and went fighting with the new belief. Life is just like a gambol, and belief is just your stake and you go gambol with the reality and objectivity. Someone is the winner because he always make his belief closer to reality, while someone owed a huge debt to the reality, for he is always make his belief far away from the truth and the ability that he has. What kind of people do you want to be? Winner or loser?

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  2. I agree with you about the relationship between religion and belief. Belief is very common in our daily life and religion is just a special form of belief. Almost everyone has a belief which often become the rules of their behavior or the goal of their life. Relatively speaking, religion is more formal and noble. It has become a serious belief shared by billions of people. It has developed for a long time and has become a kind of culture now.

    In fact, either religion or belief is a kind of inner sustenance. People need inner sustenance otherwise they don't know what they live for and they will feel lonely and fearful. Religion and belief are just like nourishment for the mind. They are the power of spirit that help people overcome difficulties and give them hope of life.

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