Your Views

It doesn 't make any real difference whether you arrive at your views based on reasoning or not . This is true but only to some extent . The idea is that reasoning allows us to make intelligent choices . It makes our views educated and thus , always logical . And if we decide to follow a course of action , the ones based on reasoning would always win out in the end . Not so , all the time

Sometimes we don 't do things as a result of the reasoning process but still succeed or accomplish what we

set out to do . Sometimes it doesn 't or won 't matter how we came to hold a particular viewpoint because the end isn 't always what logic would tell us as the inevitable effect . It is not our personal views and how we came to hold those views that matter all the time . Sometimes we simply accept what other people think and tell us to believe and it is good enough . Sometimes , too , we simply listen to someone or something and then we accept the point for fact just because

When we follow intuition , for example , we are acting out of gut feel When the act requires courage because reason and hours of plotting and planning dictate that something is impossible to achieve , we could listen to that inner voice and make that jump . The world has seen many great achievements because people didn 't let reason dictate them . They simply make the plunge

When we are subordinates in an organization , especially one which follows a stiff line of command , our actions will be dictated by our superiors . We are not expected to arrive at our views on things independently . We are ed to follow and accept . If ever we come to a differing conclusion , it will not matter in the end , because what we believe and like to do won 't be what will be enforced , anyway

Finally , faith is the act of believing without examining the logic behind one 's beliefs . In many instances , allowing skepticism to come in and thus set the individual into questioning his faith , only leads to losing one 's convictions and in turn , peace of mind . The irony is that the person who blindly clings onto his faith , who proceeds with fatalism and acceptance , is the one has peace of mind compared to the skeptic who constantly scoffs at acts or views made without empirical reasons behind them...