If you don’t have faith and say you have faith, then you want to deceive people.

Larue 2022-09-15 10:47:00

Just yesterday, I saw a passage like this, and it was a pity that I missed it -

"Those who believe in the dead are religions, and those who believe in the living are cults. Faith is to find (create) a God to believe in, and others are not allowed to disbelieve. Infidels. No belief is a sign of maturity, regardless of Chinese and foreigners. If you have no beliefs and say you have beliefs, you are trying to deceive people."



What changed our beliefs?

What is Faith? Is it the minority? Is it the public? Shouldn't belief be self-confidence, shouldn't belief be a spiritual home?

Why do we change our faith? Why are we shaken?



What is Faith? Did you become a Christian? Or before taking refuge in the Buddha? All things in the world, why are beliefs common to most people? Perhaps, this is something that a non-religious individual like me cannot understand. I'm not a follower of Jesus, nor a follower of any church, but I shouldn't actually claim to be unbelieving because I believe in myself, I believe in truth, and even I believe in philosophy like Sipatia.

But I am ashamed. Because I believe in myself and the truth, but I still question them.

I doubted myself, I was indecisive, I was confused by outside interference, confused and even scared me, I denied it hoarsely in front of my self, why am I shaken? I look like I'm giving in, I'm conforming...but why? I don't have the wrong idea, the wrong expression, I'm just a niche for most people, I just insist differently, that's the reason for compromise...



Faith comes from self-belief, and self-belief in the right truth.

Every moment of our day is difficult. You walk peacefully, no one praises you for being right, but your small mistakes will be magnified. We can't take it lightly. While we think about it, we abandon our beliefs. We say that's because of the environment.

If we are just Christians or Buddhists, there are rules to follow, reasons to follow, and clear leaders, but we are not followers of any sect. We need to learn as we grow, and every day we present new information to ourselves, including Danger and threat.



What are our beliefs? Why waver? Is it that society no longer allows the heroic protection of our faith as long as we sacrifice ourselves?

Voltaire said - if God didn't exist, he had to be invented.

Do you have faith? I have and they are so good that I no longer circumvent them. What we should learn first is persistence. I hate conformity, those dog puppy excuses are all cowardice. To believe that you are harmless, to stand firm and not always compromise.



Wisdom does not need to be equal to beauty, it is a worth.

Dedicated to Wisdom Sipatia.




"City Square" / (Agora)



I really like the name "City Square", which echoes the architecture of Rome, Alexandria, Greece.

This is not a romantic drama in an epic film, it is not love at all, it is a contest between religion, belief, wisdom and politics, it describes a wise Egyptian female astronomer, mathematician, philosopher - Sipa Tia.

This is history, not Greek mythology.

History has religious fanatics who falsely claim the name of God, blind arrogance and stubbornness, and history has blood and persecution that cannot be erased. Seeing how the group of Christians brutally murdered a woman, and seeing how those intellectuals sanctimoniously advocated spiritual civilization, Plato should have laughed, he should have picked up the coffin and beat them. The lack of knowledge makes the society infinitely uncivilized.

And knowledge is so interesting that wisdom cannot stop it.


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Agora quotes

  • Hypatia: Synesius, you don't question what you believe, or cannot. I must.

  • Hypatia: [Looks up at night sky] If I could just unravel this just a little bit more, and just get a little closer to the answer, then... Then I would go to my grave a happy woman.