(March 5, 2014 at 6:19 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: What if you choose to expose yourself to only Christian literature, discuss religion with only Christian people, and avoid trains of thought which head down tracks you don't wish to consider?
In the sense of, I can't choose to have diarrhea, but I can choose to eat half a pound of figs.
In that sense, one probably could.
But is that choosing what to believe, or is it choosing a path that reduces the anxiety of cognitive dissonance?
I thought of the question in these terms: Could I choose to believe as true, something that I currently think is a load of codswallop?
I do not think that I can.
