Retrospect and reflection are priceless. It's easy to cherish a belief that we are not prepared to challenge. Like a crab that needs to shed it's shell to grow, for a short time is soft and vulnerable. Soon it is harder, stronger and bigger.
(unless it's a Hermit crab, with a new shell ready)
One of the keys to the manner in which we challenge our beliefs is through learning and experience. Without the unknown to draw us forward, we would run around in circles. Consider the way a child sees the world. It can be valid, but sometimes beliefs belong in the domain of children.
Children can believe a man they barely know gives them gifts for Christmas. There comes a time in their life that they have to admit not so much that this is a fiction, but that the truth has been that their parents have had to work to get the money to get the gifts, with absolutely no credit. (Sorry, I should write Recognition. Credit and Christmas are Mortal enemies)

Spot on for clip and comment. I think language reifies things so that we think of 'belief' as a fixed entity, whereas it is always a post hoc rationalisation, and in a strange way it is the jettisoning of such ossified 'beliefs' that by our thinking and feeling and lived humanbeingness that we flow into a state we can only crudely assign to Belief.

Yes, yes. Have to agree with all of it.

Unfortunately, much of what hardens our shell of belief is tradition.

Tanks for the post pokkets,

we should question everything to find out what is true for ourselves

* If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes

thanks for the quote syncopath, i added it to my site... constantskeptic.com

It's called "conventional" wisdom.

KeyWords: WHAT IF

What if you are all only part of my dream and when I die you all cease to exist...author unknown

What if plants are sacred?
What if we are not supposed to live long lives?
What if babies can see angels?
What if the soul exists?
What if we are a virus that is growing rampant upon the planet?
What if science discovers a way to tap into planck energy and they accidently blow up the planet?
What if we have abilities of the mind to manipulate the universe?
What if there is inhabited other dimensions?

What if we could use the fire how we want?
What if
It has driven us to experimentation ever since we gained reason ability. It has opened our species to invention and wisdom. That question, those two little words, has done more to our species than any other concept or observation. It allows us to grow beyond our current comprehension and drives us on to ever wonderous realms of enlightenment. What if, Don't belittle it. It is the most powerful concept we ever created.

Sounds exciting.

What if, Don't belittle it. It is the most powerful concept we ever created.

I believe that. But I could be wrong.

This often tends to be a time of the year when people tend to reflect having set themselves new goals. Time taken to reflect can often bring up many questions.

What if Homer Simpson IS God?

If you think about how smart he was when he had the crayon he'd shoved up his nose removed, who knows what would have happened if they didn't put it back. Perhaps all for the sake of world peace.
I wonder if young George ever played with crayons.

What if Homer Simpson IS God?

To some, he already is