3am musings (Humans)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, September 07, 2011, 04:05 (4625 days ago)

It's late and I am jet lagged, so I apologize in advance for the mad ramblings that follow... but sometimes just writing them out is therapeutic. -
I was having a coffee and a smoke on the bridge, thinking about my ex-grandfather-in-law and some of our past interactions. When I was first married, he was a staunch Catholic and was extraordinarily persistent that I raise my children to be so as well, which I vehemently disagreed with for reasons that are inconsequential to this post. However, recently (almost ten years later) he has changed his tune saying that he doesn't care what they believe, only that they do. This led to a rather strange train of thoughts. Does it really matter what a person believes, or does it only matter that they DO believe in something? What is there to be found in belief? -The answer that struck me has me scratching my head. See, the answer that struck me is that EVERYTHING is found in belief. Sound, music, language, color, mathematics, science, religion, philosophy, art, love, everything. In fact, I am hard pressed to think of a single thing that doesn't depend on it. Even physics, with the Heisenberg Uncertainty principal relies on observation, or lack there of, which involves either belief in what you are seeing or faith that what you are not observing is happening. -I would love some feed back on this line of thought. Perhaps it is just the jet lag talking, but it is somewhat troubling to me.