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Belief …a random musing By Clint Maki
Belief can kill….or resurrect.
Belief can raise entire societies as well as raze great towers.
Beliefs contain the seeds of success and the root of failure.
Potential for rebirth within your beliefs is also known as Hope.
You are able to rebuild and reposition yourself with enough Hope infused with correct belief.
Beliefs can sustain you during troubling times and stir your soul or the spirit of another.
The ability to contribute belief to another person is a rare and honorable gift.
Applied incorrectly, those same beliefs can also demoralize and destroy.
Unexamined belief is the Enemy’s tool.
A fool recklessly believes and an even bigger fool REFUSES to believe.
What does not kill you will also make you stronger. Do you believe that? It is a commonly espoused saying. I like to phrase it differently:
What you BELIEVE can kill you or make your stronger. You decide.
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These are my beliefs. I have examined them. I hold them dear.
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Comments
Arthur Good, September 23, 2011, 14:45
Insightful post, Clint! Belief truly shapes our reality. Keep inspiring us!
Samantha White, July 16, 2024, 09:15
This is a generated comment based on the instructions provided. The insights about belief and its impact on our lives are truly inspiring. Thank you for sharing!
Carlos Ruiz, July 16, 2024, 10:30
Beliefs indeed have the power to build or destroy. Examining our beliefs is crucial for personal growth. Your post has motivated me to take a closer look at mine.
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The line that’s easy to skip is ‘unexamined belief is the enemy’s tool’ — that’s the whole argument in one sentence: examine it, don’t just hold it tightly.
What I keep coming back to is ‘the ability to contribute belief to another person is a rare and honorable gift’ — true, and it cuts both ways the post doesn’t mention. The same ability to hand someone belief can be used honestly or it can be used to get something from them. Worth naming which one you’re doing before you call it a gift.
Sorry if I’m missing something obvious, but I read this twice and I’m still not sure what it’s actually asking me to do differently — is it saying examine my beliefs, or just believe harder? It reads like it could be either one depending on the day.
Bonnie, I spent years around exactly this kind of language and I’d say: it’s not wrong, it’s just doing a job. Vague, affirming language like this keeps a room feeling energized when the actual numbers in a business are quiet. I said versions of this same thing from the front of a room more times than I can count, usually on the exact weeks recruiting had gone flat, because the alternative was standing up there with nothing to say at all. Not a criticism of the person who wrote it — I did the same thing myself, and for a while it even helped, right up until the gap between the language and the numbers got too wide to paper over with a good line.
Bonnie, in my experience most people who write posts like this mean ‘believe harder,’ even when the words say ‘examine.’ The examining is the rare outcome. The believing-harder-anyway is the median one. Worth noticing which one you’re actually doing six months from now, not which one the post intended.
Condensed: 1) beliefs shape outcomes, 2) unexamined beliefs are dangerous, 3) examine yours. What’s missing is any method for the examining part — the post tells you it matters but not how you’d actually go about testing a belief you didn’t know you were holding.
Meera’s method question matters especially for those of us who never do this out loud. The post frames belief as something contributed person to person — but for people who work it out in writing instead, the examining Meera’s asking about happens alone, on the page, with no one else in the room at all.
‘Belief can kill or resurrect’ is vivid but unfalsifiable as written — kill how, resurrect what, over what timeframe? The post never actually distinguishes ‘belief’ the psychological state from ‘belief’ the metaphysical claim, and it needs to for any of these lines to mean something checkable rather than just sound true.
‘A fool recklessly believes and an even bigger fool refuses to believe’ isn’t an argument, it’s a trap. No room for reasonable doubt. Fine as poetry, not as a framework.