Where our beliefs begin

Onkel Neal · 10-15-19, 05:15 AM

While reading an article that challenged my beliefs, a few thoughts occurred to me; how do we frame our beliefs? Of course, from our first hand experiences, and from what we have been told. We consider the evidence and the source and we cast our beliefs from that mold.

Quick question: When the first Europeans arrived in the Americas, they brought disease which spread through and devastated the native population. Do you believe that's true and accurate? Ok, good: now before you go scrambling off to Google, how did you acquire that belief? Do you remember the day you heard that theory? Do you recall the exact form of information? Was it a lecture by a professor or an article in a journal? Was it in school or on a BBC website?

So, let's say you believe this. Certainly you must have been introduced to this theory, you considered it, accepted it, and stored it away in your consciousness, and when the subject arises, you trot out this as something you believe, right?

10-15-19, 05:15 AM	#1
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,289 Downloads: 534 Uploads: 224	Where our beliefs begin While reading an article that challenged my beliefs, a few thoughts occurred to me; how do we frame our beliefs? Of course, from our first hand experiences, and from what we have been told. We consider the evidence and the source and we cast our beliefs from that mold. Quick question: When the first Europeans arrived in the Americas, they brought disease which spread through and devastated the native population. Do you believe that's true and accurate? Ok, good: now before you go scrambling off to Google, how did you acquire that belief? Do you remember the day you heard that theory? Do you recall the exact form of information? Was it a lecture by a professor or an article in a journal? Was it in school or on a BBC website? So, let's say you believe this. Certainly you must have been introduced to this theory, you considered it, accepted it, and stored it away in your consciousness, and when the subject arises, you trot out this as something you believe, right?