What Does Your Belief Influence?

To help keep another thread on topic, I thought I'd start this thread to proceed with another topic that was started in it.

What do you believe your "beliefs" (or even religion), influence in your life?

Can it play a role in making you smarter? Stronger? More fit?

How relevant is it in these ways if at all?

Belief is intrinsic to every aspect of consciousness, from how we view ourselves (thus influencing our actions) to how we view and interact with others.

I can believe I can fly, I can be even confident in that belief, doesn't make it so.

Confidence doesn't give you muscular strength, your training does.

Training trumps belief every time.

maynoth wrote: I can believe I can fly, I can be even confident in that belief, doesn't make it so.

Confidence doesn't give you muscular strength, your training does.

Training trumps belief every time.

Why did you start training? Because you believed it would work...

Zenchi wrote:

maynoth wrote: I can believe I can fly, I can be even confident in that belief, doesn't make it so.

Confidence doesn't give you muscular strength, your training does.

Training trumps belief every time.

Why did you start training? Because you believed it would work...

I observed it would work.

maynoth wrote:

Zenchi wrote:

maynoth wrote: I can believe I can fly, I can be even confident in that belief, doesn't make it so.

Confidence doesn't give you muscular strength, your training does.

Training trumps belief every time.

Why did you start training? Because you believed it would work...

I observed it would work.

lol, Call it what you want, I call it bad English...

English sucks. Words are irrelevant. Don't make it into a semantics debate.

Maynoth: you mean you saw something happened and you realized that with training you could accomplish something similar. Practicality only.

Zenchi: Belief can apply to the ideas above. Our brain interprets EVERYTHING we ever ingest (through any sense). So, yes, everything is a belief. But, at the same time, in our functional language, belief implies a suspension of reality. Like, I believe in "god". I believe in "you". I believe in this "box". It's separated from the realities of god, you, or the box.

Yes.

Watching people lift weights and grow muscular as a result, stimulus and response, direct observation.

So, to answer the OP: Belief influences EVERYTHING. It can inspire you to work harder, to work for a cause, to do anything worth doing.

If you do not observe or believe in something, then it is very hard to live a purposeful life.

Connor Lidell wrote: So, to answer the OP: Belief influences EVERYTHING. It can inspire you to work harder, to work for a cause, to do anything worth doing.

If you do not observe or believe in something, then it is very hard to live a purposeful life.

Well what you believe may help you get your life together sure... but believing you are super strong and can bench press 500lbs doesn't make it so.

Training, hard work, diligence, correct methods, that's what will make you bench press 500lbs, not a belief.

That's what I am getting at.