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Re: A psychological question: "choose to believe" [message #442902 is a reply to message #442714] Tue, 18 January 2011 03:35 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Spoony wrote on Sat, 15 January 2011 13:18


I'm asking if anyone else can, after making a choice, will themself to believe something.



Absolutely not, and most faiths require that true belief. Faking it simply wont cut it.
Perhaps you can kid yourself for a while maybe, but I would imagine that to be able to truely claim you can will yourself to believe something, you would have to be mentally disturbed.
I think that people can believe there is a chance of it being real, and that's all that has been needed for religion to exist.



 
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