Because the bible tells you so?

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Sure, I can certainly agree I feel a certain kind of emotion, state of mind, call it what you will. A kind of "this is right" or "this is wrong". However, I'm aware this is my intuition/subconcious at least some of the time. I try and check myself by seeing if I can logically support the conclusion.

For example, I was doing a puzzle my wife showed me. I had the feeling that a certain number was the answer, I felt about 95% sure, but I couldn't say why. I didn't trust that feeling until I could demonstrate to myself that it was actually correct. As it turned out, I was right.

I suppose the skill is recognising when your intuition/subconcious has leapt to a conclusion, and to rewind and see if it's logical or not. I'm sure I fall foul of it plenty of times, I'm not claiming I'm perfect or anywhere near. But when we're on a discussion forum like this, it's a great opportunity for people to really examine those feelings, those conclusions, those beliefs and see if they can back them up with reason. If they can't, that's fine, they have no obligation to. But if I couldn't back up my beliefs with reason, I'd want to know about it and to find out if I was holding phoney ones.