Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “Do we have a need to believe in something?”, Leave a Reply below!
Do we need to believe that we’ll be reunited with loved ones? Sure, it’s comforting but no one knows if it’ll really happen.
We can believe all we want to but can’t know for sure.
Could just be darkness… wait… that’s too much for my frail human brain to handle… I think I’ll stick with hoping for heaven… more comforting and fun.
Don’t want to face the prospect of eternal darkness, nothingness – can’t process that right?
Belief is comforting without which we’d be messed up psychologically.
So I have a quote, in lack of my paraphrasing skills I will just drop the quote because I think it fits, “I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” Mark Twain
This depends on the something in question. We have a need to believe that without food and water we will weaken and die, that it is advisable to avoid harm, etc. In a more numinous sense, no. The existence of nihilists, absurdists and existentialists quite merrily going about their business demonstrates categorically that this is so.
Believing is a kind of acknowlegement of “the way things are”. If you like power or status then you have to believe something about where you want to be. If you believe that “winning is the only thing”, you will have a little trouble withdrawing from that game.
It is kind of like asking “how much do you need an overriding bias in your analysis of things? How much do you need “a game changer bias” to feel satisfaction?
People could probably get along fairly well without “belief enforcement”. i think human interface has excessive amount of bias that have to be accepted as normal or common knowledge. This means you can become inured to some very strange status quo kind of common beliefs. This can wear on you, while somehow seeming normal or acceptable.
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Clearly, some will say no. On the other hand, it is a need for some but not for all who do believe.
“Some people say seeing is believing. Actually, though, not-seeing is believing. We don’t need to believe in the things we know. We only need to believe in the things we’re not so sure of.” (Jonathan Cainer )
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I don’t believe so. I think we have a need to be free from fear and, it seems to me, that whatever we believe about the nature of reality (religious or otherwise) provides some measure of this freedom. Nevertheless, our basic fear is apparently well-founded: eventually we all have to die and, regardless of what you believe happens thereafter, I think it’s an extremely rare human who is absolutely at peace with death. In the end, I am persuaded that it’s what happens BEFORE death that really matters.
If by “something” you mean “reality” then, yes. If we don’t accept reality we are screwed.
If by something you mean “a mystical force” or “god”, then no. I am proof of that.
A vaguely worded question. If by something, one means the supernatural, then we clearly don’t.
To start with, a belief in God is a very good thing to have. The miracle of creation is just too fantastic to think it happened purely by accident. As you earnestly pursue the spiritual path, you will come to see the proof that God exists. You have to have proof, otherwise you’re just engaging in blind faith. If some priest puts water on your head and says you’re baptized, do you believe it, just because they have a Doctorate in Divinity? Are they authorized to give baptism and speak for God? We have fanaticism today because of blind faith, so discretion must be used in what we accept as true.
Obviously we believe many things. We believe our image of the whole thing. It informs our decisions.
We all believe in some things. I believe there is life on other planets. The real question here would be: Is there a need to worship? This need to worship something is taught to us in a theistic society. Worshiping something is a senseless/mindless activity.
Yes, well specifically our brains are integrating machines that crave order and explanation in the best way. And so we also need “beliefs” if you want to call them that. (If by “belief” you mean a system of values, if you meant a “belief” that is blind faith then no)
Human beings have to ask and answer the primary questions posed by reality: what is the world? how do we know anything” is the world malevolent or benevolent?
Every person implicitly lives carrying with them their personal answers to those questions even if they don’t know it.
Yes, otherwise we would have no basis for understanding the world. We must believe in the physical world, that it functions through comprehensible, reliable, natural processes if we are to be able to survive and thrive in it. Anything that would negate or deny our natural perceptions is inimical to our (natural) existence.
we believe in something. my personal belief is to not believe in anything except that which can and is proven with empirical evidence. but other people need different beliefs