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  • I haven't seen her face
  • not as most people think.
  • I am a believer in a great many things..and a non believer in several others :)
  • Yes i am just not in a religious way.
  • I'm a believer, when i seever.
  • I am now, i didn't use to be but i am now.
  • I believe in myself, if thats anything to go by....
  • During 1800s, Anthropologists had a problem as to how to classify human beings. One researcher proposed the expression "intelligent animal". After advanced studies on monkeys, it was dropped. Another researcher proposed "tool using animal". After observing some animals making wooden tools and sharpening them with knife like stones, it was dropped. Another researcher proposed "weapon using animal". A decade ago, a rare film was shot by an amateur in an African forest. One short monkey was hit very badly by a big monkey. The short monkey prepared a wooden knife using stones and hid it on the top of a tree. After some days, when the big monkey came to attack the short monkey, it ran up to the tree for the weapon it has hid and killed the big monkey. The one thing that the anthropologists found with any group of human beings, even if they did not have contacts with the out side world for thousands of years, is that they have spirituality with some form of religion. So, man is a "spiritual animal" if you want to call him that way. The Upanishads say that "Manush" (human) was so named because he has "Manas" a mind higher than that of the animals which realizes the divinity in creation. It was present since the creation of human beings. Religion is the characteristic feature of most of the human beings. It was not attained through reasoning using mind. Illiterate tribes located in inaccessible forests also have religion. It is as eternal and and as unchanging as the Almighty. Disbelief by a few will not affect it. "The percentage of atheists in the world is less than 5%" http://www.positiveatheism.org/india/s1990c48a.htm "Atheists are all scientists" ? http://www.non-religious.com/statistics.html Religion is not a blind following. It is a sub-consciously driven group ritual. It calms the 'collective unconscious' mind. The religious culture brings unity and belongedness among the followers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious " Are Atheists More Depressed than Religious People? In recent years, the view that religious belief and participation in religious acts of worship has a positive effect upon the well-being of man..." http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=buggle_20_4 "Is a Belief in God Beneficial? Or, What's an Atheist to Do? 1) Religious attendance is correlated with longevity. 2) Religious belief has been associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms. 3) Religious beliefs may help with addiction. 4) Religious attendance is correlated with lower blood pressure. http://jewishatheist.blogspot.com/2006/01/is-belief-in-god-beneficial-or-whats.html I am not only a believer, I am a knower of Almighty. I have seen spiritual visions.
  • First, what can we look at? We can say, 'I believe I'll have another drink', but that's not it. 'I believe in myself', well if pressed you might be able to define that. It might have something to do with the fact that there is scant belief in the other. I believe the Jets had a good chance this year. Hope there. The essence of belief is conviction. After long painful debate a jury reaches a state of mind, they believe a man guilty of a crime so unshakeably they are forced to accept the consequences of that. They have convicted the man and as a result he may well die. If you have become convicted of the benefit of the Buddha's teaching, Jesus' teaching or the law of Moses, your belief will determine your practice. Not because your family does, or because it's social to. Otherwise, you will go around throughout your life saying you are a believer and wondering why you feel like such a phony. In that sense, I believe.

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