Post Your Beliefs Here!

[electroBeam]

I thought it would be a great idea if all of us as a community post our answer's to Leo's worksheet he gave us for his latest video. From my experience, beliefs are so hidden, and deceptive in our minds that sometimes it can be hard to even acknowledge or identify them. Though if all of us post our answers to the worksheet, other people's answers might guide ourselves to look in areas of our mind that we might have totally forgotten, or areas that are so deceptive or hidden, that we wouldn't have even thought of otherwise.

I didn't have enough time to finish mine(have a test tomorrow) but here are some of mine:

Some of my pet theories are...

-       Donald trump is a good guy

-       Gravity is real

-       That thing is a helicopter

-       The belief that I believe everything

-       The belief that freedom is beautiful

-       I believe in space

-       I will be a successful business person in the future

-       I will get a high mark for my exams in 3 weeks

Some things that I know FOR SURE are...

-       That’s a pen

-       I am a truthful person

-       Enlightenment is going to be the thing that makes me fulfilled and happy in life

-       I do not believe in gravity

Some beliefs which would be ridiculous to question are...

-       Santa clause, tea pot monster, there’s an alien under my table are all real, my parent’s think that meditation is stupid

-       Sun isn’t going shine tomorrow

-       The world doesn’t exist

-       There is not an alien outside the front door

-       My parents are not from another planet

-       My homework is not fun

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Some things that I believe but haven’t actually experienced are...

-       The earth is round

-       That mars looks the way that it does

-       Felix thinks im an idiot

-       That enlightenment will give me happiness

-       That success will make me happy

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Some assumptions necessary for my worldview to make sense are...

-       Everything is made of matter

-       That I exist

-       Space exists

-       That the world is physical

-       Cells exist

-      atoms exist

-       there are stars outside of our solar system

-      fire is burnt from heat

-      Capitalism is the best system and better than communism

-     my parents' love is real

-     social justice warriors are evil people

 

Some of my meta beliefs are

-  I am a rational person

-  That I am aware of all of my beliefs

-  That I am aware of what leo is saying about meta beliefs

Edited October 16, 2016 by electroBeam

[Saarah]

There's also some beliefs we try to be open about but are really just adapting them to what we already believe so we're not really being open to them, we create a softer version of them so it's easier for us to be open minded about them 

That could be another sentence

Some beliefs I think I'm being open to, but have really just adapted are... 

For example a religious person might be open to the theory of evolution but by reconciling it with God so as to say God created the process 

or we might be open to the possibility of something 'airy fairy' only to the extent that there's some kind of grounded scientific and logical explanation for it 

might be more tricky to notice

[Self-Mastery]

I believe that I do not have any beliefs. When Leo said this, I just laughed at my stupidity I used to say this all the time; haha.

[Pav]

I believe that all beliefs are inherently wrong and can never accurately represent reality, including scientific models. Concepts can be very useful, interesting, and fun to play around with but they are the map and not the territory itself. 

I believe I only have perhaps a handful of original ideas, the majority being regurgitations of other peoples ideas.

[Donald]

One way to fool yourself thinking that you are making " inquiry " is by challenging only peripheral beliefs ,the ones that are easy and free of heavy emotional charge . If you really wanna test yourself and see if you are doing it correctly check your emotional response . The more resistance you feel the more you are going deep into the " core beliefs" , when you hit those you will really feel what inquiry is .Hope you get lost in the process . lol