Belief

Belief

Belief is the state where people hold a premise or statement to be true.

What does that mean? Knowledge and Belief have to be understood for that. If the Earth is round but people believe it is flat, then the Belief is there, but it is no Knowledge. Knowledge would be that the Earth is round, not perfectly, but the general shape.

At least that is if you follow the conventional scientific explanation. From our point of view the universe has to obey certain laws and each time we find something that does not fit into that we believe we haven't found the right explanation yet. Knowledge is what is our Belief.

However, can we be sure that our way to explain everything is true and not wrong? Perhaps we just live in a corner of the universe where the rules are as we believe them to be, but in general it's just Chaos, no Order at all?

Law of Nature

As already stated our Belief is the science. (At least for the majority.)

If we take a look at the past, then we will find out or Belief has changed a lot.

First we believed the Earth was the center of everything, until people like Copernicus or Galileo proved stated and even proved otherwise. That is where our Belief has shifted from a geocentric into a heliocentric way.

This progressed into what we have today, with theories of Strings and quantum physics etc.

You may argue now that is the truth, the absolute truth: The Law of Nature. Actually, I disagree. We can only believe in what we experience, and we have not experienced anything else besides our little system yet. Because of that I believe in it, but constantly wonder whether it is true or not. After all it may be that there is more that we do not know of yet.

This is entirely philosophical though, as I believe in no absolute truth (there, Belief again).

Conclusion

So what do we get out of this?

Well, that we always have to believe in something. Be it Gods, science, void or whatever there is... If we had no constant factor, no Order in our lives, how could we experience the next moment calmly?

People already get shaken if confronted with things they do not want to know, and when that little world they built up and live in collapses their sanity goes with that as well.

Or the other method, they only believe in what is their Belief. Why do you think there was the Church saying Earth is the center of the world? Pure belief, and they held onto it for a long time. Even now I bet some people follow that or at least similar things, for example that God created us in 7 days.

As such we might want to experience new things to broaden out horizon, and we may want to question our Belief. Should we really follow it blindly, even if it gives us happiness?