Monday, January 25, 2010
"Seeing is Believing"
Throughout most of our lives many of us were taught that if you can see then it is real. Now as we grow older we come to learn that not all things are real, and that we can't believe everything we see. As children we latch onto ideas easily because someone simply has said it is that way, this could in fact be the complete opposite. Although seeing may not really be believing, for many it probably helps associate an idea the best way possible.
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I've always taken the phrase to mean something different. I don't believe that the statement means that ideas solidify into indisputable facts in our minds as soon as we're introduced to them. Rather it means that when we see something in front of us it is an undeniable fact that it is there. Now, just because someone shows me a movie with dinosaurs firing lasers at F-22s, doesn't mean that I believe that they're real.
The existence which I cannot deny is the existence of the film itself.
If there is an apple in front of you then you will believe that the apple is there. Should the apple feel waxy when you touch it you realize that it was a false apple. Just because you believe in something doesn't mean that that belief is permanent.
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