Dominique C.

Cain Composition: Huckabee

This I Believe
Longing, yearning, resolving, willing, trusting, believing, signify all of them simple mental acts that cannot be explained, or defined; and yet are understood by all the world something that everyone takes part in unknowingly, every human being familiarly acquainted with them as they pass through his or her mind aimlessly. When I say that I believe God rose on the third day, that Lincoln was the sixtieth president, or that the King of Britain has thirteen children, everyone believes that, because theyre facts and can be proven but that doesnt justify that fact that anyone has to believe those statements. On the other hand, when I say that I do not believe in ghost, and the Lockness monster, or Mahomets tomb being suspended in the air between two stones, people say that Im foolish, unwise, or senseless; yet those are things that cannot proven, but its an belief system. So what is this belief system? The ideology of having faith in something devoting every second of your day to it. Or is it the idea of having hope in something - that wishing on a star kind of thing, though you already know what your true fate is? Maybe it could be a religion, where you pray every night to some deity that by your standards exist, but could only be a figment of your imagination. Belief could even be the state of philosophy were one applies his mind to the whys and hows of life, and broods every five seconds. Hence it is that no writer has thought it necessary to analyze belief, to break it down particle by particle but what if we did? If we analyzed belief, broke it down, and really understood it, it may just disprove everything that humanity has proven. So what then - what would there really be for the human race to believe in?

Dominique C. Cain Composition: Huckabee The hold purpose of the belief system is to distinguish reality from fiction and truth from falsehood it is of the utmost importance to every human being. On the contrary, belief can be described as something that shouldn't be change nor challenged - however, it is. We challenge each other by trying to twist the minds of one to not agree with something, and agree with us instead. However, what's so good about our side that isn't shown on their side? Is it facts, opinion, can it be proven - if so, can't someone else prove it wrong; someone to challenge our thought process, and veer humanity into a different direction than the one it was already going in before. In a system deviating so widely from truth, no just statement is to be believed, nor true delineation of something. True history takes fast hold of the mind, and presents itself in a livelier phase than any exquisite narration can do. "Every man must judge for himself by creating his own opinion"- but doesn't that just create more problems, and challenge us further. For opinions, no doubt, takes faster hold of the mind, than any fiction or fact. Sometimes indeed, belief is the result of a lively impression. A dramatic representation of Shakespeare's finest work, when it affects us so much as to draw off our attention from every other object, and even from our selves. In this state, we do not consider the statement to be true, but conceive it to be the very thing whose belief system is simply based off of opinion. Although, we its understandable to have opinions, we still perceive the statement to be only just a statement, though it can prove. This belief however is but momentary. It vanishes like a dream, as soon as we are stirred back into the consciousness of ourselves. Nor is the lively impression, even in this case, the cause of belief, but only the occasion of it, by diverting the attention of the mind from itself and its situation. It is in some such manner, that the idea of a

Dominique C. Cain Composition: Huckabee spectrum in the dark, which fills the mind and diverts it from itself, is, by the force of imagination, converted into a reality. We think we see and hear it: we are convinced of it, and believe the matter to be so. And it is us that are the very poison to our belief system. But that's what the belief system is - disagreement. We cannot believe the same thing. For if we do, we become the poison to the apple, the acne to the stomach, and the break to the heart. For if we do, we create a horizon that is level, expect for the pit of unreasonableness that we are forced to live eternity in. Because of our disagreements on what we believe some places in the world have reached their Pax-Romana, and innovations have started from the spark of a disagreement. We as humanity have agreed to disagreement - we've thrived off a system that's foundations are opinions that we try to prove with facts, some easier than others. And it's these three words that will continue it: This I believe...