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  • Are the colours an empirical term?
    Now possibly because of some of these anomalies of the concept of color compared to the concept of objects, we feel there could be arbitrariness in the naming of colors. This could be true but how is it relevant?Antony Nickles

    Hello there Antony Nickles. Thanks for your answer.

    Yes I am agree with you that could be so arbitrary comparing or interpret the colours as a objects. Nevertheless, I guess it is pretty interesting how the "world" made a pattern about it, i.e. When we see an apple we say "red" because someone taught us in the school the basic vocabulary. But if randomly you say it is "blue" they would answer you have a Color blindness because you do not see the color pattern as someone previously explained. So you are "mistaken" if you see an apple "red" or "green". The point here is how we stand the patterns or principles in an abstract thing like colors. Like you well said we don't have to because they are not object. Nevertheless, if I say the Sun is "Purple" the people will categorised me as a color blindness.

    Another interesting i.e when Descartes said "perfection is when even dreaming you are not mistaken, like geometry" but I guess someone previously had to taught me what is exactly maths and it is specific pattern of "geometry"
  • Why do people need religious beliefs and ideas?
    I wonder how your background still affects you, and whether it affects you as you go through the day to day experience of life.Jack Cummins

    I am in a period of time (I am 23 years old) that I can't believe in anything neither myself. I don't know if my background has led me to this moment. I feeling more sceptical than ever. Probably due to all the negative experiences I am living since the last year when all my teachers say to me "flawed student"
    But I am not praying for someone or something to have more faith in myself because nobody taught in the past to do so (I even went to an atheist school too). I am just sitting like in a fence wondering if I am going to fall down or still there with zero criteria. Sometimes I randomly feel this things can get better.
  • Why do people need religious beliefs and ideas?
    I hope my country realizes that education for technology has destroyed wisdom and that we return to education for wisdom. That is liberal education.Athena

    This point is so much important. I totally agree with you that educational system is flawed since the day when states decided teaching us the "principles" to just work and pay our taxes. Probably yes we are more practical but we lost the path of wisdom and questioning everything.
    When I say questioning I mean the key of not feeling "full" of what ever our teachers in the school/university teach.
  • Why do people need religious beliefs and ideas?
    Hello there Jack Cummins,

    What an interesting question. I want to stand in the idea that believing in God or whatever religion is not innate at all. Probably I going to sound so empirical right now but look the next point.
    Complex and abstract terms like “God” “Heaven” “souls” are learned to us in our way of life when we are getting to the adulthood. I been raised in a house of atheists people. So in my case I never even been or heard about what is God or a church making me feel so impasible about religion. I cannot remember at all feeling in an innate state trying to find a “way” to understand my meaningless life.

    Nevertheless, I understand your point and I guess we can direct it in other path. Sometimes we have that period of life full of complexity where we ask ourselves questions like “why am I here?” “Why am I living this moment?” “What the future holds?” Etc... some authors name this moment as “personal period of thinking” while some people will find the way in a religious path, others in the philosophy branches (determinism, nihilism, empirical, etc...) So somehow I guess it is innate that feeling of questioning everything in our reality but not the answers.
    What I tried to explain here is that you can’t know exactly what being religious is if before someone never explained to you that way of beliefs.

    Nice to meet you. I wish we can have more debate in the future.