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RE: Daily Discussion No. 10: Where Do Your Beliefs COME From? Interactive Exercise!
I would say I threw out what my parents taught me as soon as I hit 18 and started college. I would say my beliefs come from my education and experience. I spent a lot of my spare time in college reading about every religion I could find and studying sciences. I met people along the way who influenced me with their own "great" ideas. My beliefs are from my own efforts to learn and from the people I've met on my journey through life.
I am very grateful to my parent for (a) teaching me to think for myself and (b) even though they were not aware of it at the time, teaching me the fundamentals of critical thinking.
I have ready a great number of religious and spiritual texts, and "sat at the feet" of an assortment of spiritual teachers and "gurus" and learned many things in the process. Perhaps what I have most learned is that the vast majority of humans are extremely uncomfortable with "not knowing" things... be it the origins of life, or what they are going to have for breakfast. Uncertainty scares us.