the optimal decision for what belief to choose might well to be to ignore that and believe something else.
Can you describe what you mean by “choosing to believe” in something? Right now it’s raining where I am, and I don’t seem to be able to choose to believe otherwise. I have the same difficulty in choosing to believe things I don’t know the truth of, like whether it will stop raining by the time I go home.
On the other hand, I know someone who became interested in paganism, tested it by believing in it, and found it worked, so continued to believe. I would have been fascinated to probe him further on the matter, but I didn’t think I could manage to not sound like an anthropologist inquiring somewhat condescendingly into the strange superstitions of tribal savages.
Worshipping the Goddess that infuses Nature made a difference in his life, or something like that. As I say, I didn’t feel comfortable about pressing him on the subject. It would have been like asking what sex is like.
On the other hand, I know someone who became interested in paganism, tested it by believing in it, and found it worked, so continued to believe. I would have been fascinated to probe him further on the matter, but I didn’t think I could manage to not sound like an anthropologist inquiring somewhat condescendingly into the strange superstitions of tribal savages.
how exactly paganism worked for him? pagan rituals were cool and pagan chicks were hot ;-) or it was pagan magic that really worked?
Can you describe what you mean by “choosing to believe” in something? Right now it’s raining where I am, and I don’t seem to be able to choose to believe otherwise. I have the same difficulty in choosing to believe things I don’t know the truth of, like whether it will stop raining by the time I go home.
On the other hand, I know someone who became interested in paganism, tested it by believing in it, and found it worked, so continued to believe. I would have been fascinated to probe him further on the matter, but I didn’t think I could manage to not sound like an anthropologist inquiring somewhat condescendingly into the strange superstitions of tribal savages.
how paganism worked for him? pagan rituals were cool and pagan chicks were hot, or something more? :P
Worshipping the Goddess that infuses Nature made a difference in his life, or something like that. As I say, I didn’t feel comfortable about pressing him on the subject. It would have been like asking what sex is like.
how exactly paganism worked for him? pagan rituals were cool and pagan chicks were hot ;-) or it was pagan magic that really worked?