Are your beliefs yours????

rehabreject:

WeFoundTheDuck:

Nothing we believe is really ours. We've been conditioned since birth, although when we reach a certain age we tend to branch out on our own and form different beliefs.

unless you make up our own religion or political party or something, beliefs can never be 'yours'
you'll always follow someone elses ideas

Which is why people should question everything, even thier own beliefs.

I would have been content to wind up like my parents, a narrowminded Catholic idiot, until I opened my eyes and took a good hard look at the world.

It's all up to the person to decide his or her fate.

rehabreject:

WeFoundTheDuck:

Nothing we believe is really ours. We've been conditioned since birth, although when we reach a certain age we tend to branch out on our own and form different beliefs.

unless you make up our own religion or political party or something, beliefs can never be 'yours'
you'll always follow someone elses ideas

I disagree.
The idea may be someone elses, but what you believe is what you believe.
It's yours.

druscilla_nesser:

rehabreject:

WeFoundTheDuck:

Nothing we believe is really ours. We've been conditioned since birth, although when we reach a certain age we tend to branch out on our own and form different beliefs.

unless you make up our own religion or political party or something, beliefs can never be 'yours'
you'll always follow someone elses ideas

I disagree.
The idea may be someone elses, but what you believe is what you believe.
It's yours.

But a person's belief has everything to do with his surroundings. A child growing up with Catholic will most likely become a Catholic himself.

I really believe that people are conditioned from an early age, and they have to make a decision to break away from that.

WeFoundTheDuck:

druscilla_nesser:

rehabreject:

WeFoundTheDuck:

Nothing we believe is really ours. We've been conditioned since birth, although when we reach a certain age we tend to branch out on our own and form different beliefs.

unless you make up our own religion or political party or something, beliefs can never be 'yours'
you'll always follow someone elses ideas

I disagree.
The idea may be someone elses, but what you believe is what you believe.
It's yours.

But a person's belief has everything to do with his surroundings. A child growing up with Catholic will most likely become a Catholic himself.

I really believe that people are conditioned from an early age, and they have to make a decision to break away from that.

And once they make the decision, their beliefs are theirs.

druscilla_nesser:

WeFoundTheDuck:

druscilla_nesser:

rehabreject:

WeFoundTheDuck:

Nothing we believe is really ours. We've been conditioned since birth, although when we reach a certain age we tend to branch out on our own and form different beliefs.

unless you make up our own religion or political party or something, beliefs can never be 'yours'
you'll always follow someone elses ideas

I disagree.
The idea may be someone elses, but what you believe is what you believe.
It's yours.

But a person's belief has everything to do with his surroundings. A child growing up with Catholic will most likely become a Catholic himself.

I really believe that people are conditioned from an early age, and they have to make a decision to break away from that.

And once they make the decision, their beliefs are theirs.

True, true.

But I still think to truly believe in something, you need more than just conditioning, and being influenced by the things around you, which is what most people base their belief systems.

Not everyone, of course. But a lot of people I know just blindly follow, and think that they've made the decision themselves, while they're really just being led around on a leash from the time they were brorn.

If they believe in their discisions, then their beliefs are truely theirs.

My beliefs are mine. I don't believe in God. Not in a I hate God way. but I think there are things that make better sense to me. My mom would KILL me if I told her that. My dad is super Republican. I'm pretty liberal, i guess my grandparents are too but i didn't know that until recently...

*Blinded*By*The*Silence*:

My beliefs are mine. I don't believe in God. Not in a I hate God way. but I think there are things that make better sense to me. My mom would KILL me if I told her that. My dad is super Republican. I'm pretty liberal, i guess my grandparents are too but i didn't know that until recently...

Kinda the same here. Both of my parents are Republican, and my dad is both Super Republican and Super Christian.

Although I won't deny that I"ve taken a few things from my parents, I tend to think for myself. Which is hard sometimes, because my parents don't like it when I have different beliefs about God and politics.

I'm not necessarily an atheist or an agnostic, but in no way do I belong to a certain religion. I used to be an agnostic, and then I changed to an atheist, but now I'm just someone who believes in another bigger Force somewhere out there, but not necessarily God. And that's what religion is, believing in something greater than yourself. People often associate religion with "believing in God, capital G," so that definition has been distorted over the years. There's also a difference between being spiritual and religious, might I add.

My own choice.
I grew up in a Roman Catholic family.
Now I'm atheist.
I have no idea what political party they follow, but I don't like politics all too much.

Come to think of it, my parents never imposed a particular religion, political stance, social expectation, anything on me. I was Christened, but I pray to Buddha. My mum told me to be conservative in my feelings, my dad told me to be expressive in my opinions. My dad became a Muslim and I read the translations of the Qu'ran. I've always been creatively free with whatever I do. All my parents want is for me to do well in school, that's all they really ever ask.