The biggest conflicts humans have
faced within a society are associated or based on the word belief. The word
holds the ability to penetrate and define a state of mind about a self sustaining
idea or theory using sentimental values as a tool to incentivize inner peace or
identification of self to set barriers and laws based on a hierarchy of superiority
outlining social, moral and spiritual contentment that may be applicable on a
person or group of people with similar weaknesses and strengths to adapt it and
make it ultimate with or without a scientific logical method or an explanation.
“Discrimination is
not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.”
Richard Dawkins
The idea of belief grows like a
seed that doesn’t tolerate a conflicting idea that may question the basics or
detailed explanation based on rational thinking. A human brain has boundaries
but no limits; the potential of a human brain has the ability to expand like the
universe. “A pattern of findings demonstrates that the anatomical structure of
adult human brain can change very quickly, specifically during the acquisition
of new, named categories,” said by Researcher Veronica Kwok of the University
of Hong Kong and colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. This can be understood in a way that process of human evolution is
limitless and is happening fast.
“Beliefs are propositions about
the relations among things to which those who believe have made some kind of
commitment that could be pragmatic or emotional. A proposition's credibility
may appear obvious from experience or a proposition may seem to be the most
prudent assumption on which to act. In either case the commitment has pragmatic
basis. Emotional commitment to a proposition occurs when a person wants to feel
a need for it to be true because of what its truth implies about things that
matter.” As suggested by Ward H. Goodenough
Goodenough’s study does not
include ‘rational thinking’ as a major pillar to base belief as an act to
associate the ultimate both religion and science are trying to find.
Historically we have lost a lot of information that we still have hard time
understanding and decoding how it happened. But the information did leave some
clues or proves of their existence in fossils and monuments and stories and
myths. Using this statement to define everything that has been logically proven
under scientific laws is something a belief hinders and rejects to exist and
uses sentimental and psychological tools to reassure its existence thus belief
breaks certain boundaries but rests in limits constrained by pre-existing ideas
of the ones who understood the need and use of belief to rule or remain in
power.
The capacity of belief cannot be endless because it demands submission of a person’s thought process. The idea of belief and energy are like two brothers fighting for royalty, where both have suppressed and oppressed each other in the course of history through a chain of command that uses similar tools like fear, spirituality, hatred, diplomacy and peace all leading to conflict for the gain of power or survival.
Belief resists the idea of
knowing beyond limits, it escapes it by either refusing to acknowledge the
endless capacity and capability of our brains to understand, adhere and possess
infinite knowledge or the second escape is by putting barriers to the endless
capacity of our brains to understand, adhere and possess infinite knowledge to
label yourself superior among men and inferior to belief or energy. A human
brain has tissues just like all other muscles bound by to give an outcome based
on its use. The way we can build muscles on our arms and legs we can also train
our brains to enhance our capacity of thinking and refining our thoughts for
conclusions. This makes the limit of thoughts to become endless as associated
with the diverse factors of both pure and social science. Yet we have no
quarrel on accepting the existence of time and energy to be the building block
of life and existence.
Hence it is difficult to rely on
belief for conclusion rather than rational research justifying the findings and
not the belief itself to an individual, leading belief not to require logical
acceptance to many findings and proven theories. Since submission to a higher
power can be diplomatically more rewarding but it will end up creating copies
of information that seizes the idea of growth in all aspects that cross limits
known sacred to a belief with slight alterations while energy remains neither inferior
nor superior it may vary in magnitude but does not vary in core and nature.
The tool used by belief here is
merely the idea of growth that grows different branches all connected to the
same roots and refusing to accept the existence and possibility of different
trees around it. It doesn’t mean the fruit it grows would not be sweet or the
sweetest it may be, but the sweet is not the only taste a fruit is bound to
have, unless all you consciously or unconsciously want to taste is only sweet
nothing other than that is unacceptable even if it exists naturally too. This
can be the core of conflict between energy and belief, the science and
religion. Mostly led by belief through superiority based on the factors that
offer awards like acceptance and endorsement in society, power in society, end
of resentment within a group or a feud.
The idea of putting all your
queries on to a higher being or a more purposeful existence of God and His most
valued followers, leading to an end of your purpose or keeping you within a
barrier or a group that may only end up making you a branch, a fruit or a leaf
of just one tree standing over the same roots.
