I believe there is balance in everything including life/lives, but that sometimes the balance gets tipped and there is need for dramatic recovery of it

I believe everyone wants to be loved and that it can totally turn your emotional state around even just a hug

I believe in the power of music to lift the soul and transport you anywhere you want to go

I believe that I've made some huge, huge karmic mistakes both in past lives and this one... and will be tipping that balance back for quite some time to come

I believe the world as we know it will not be the same for too much longer, sadly... and I believe this is solely down to humans being the worst thing to ever happen to it and any life on it

IrresistibleB1tch said:

look, this is all very well and good but what i really want to know is this:


did dumbledore REALLY die or will j.k. rowling bring him back for the last harry potter book, like gandalf in lord of the rings???

XxAxX said:

well - what do YOU believe?

IrresistibleB1tch said:

i believe that dumbledore is eternal, like the forces of good. i think that when he passed, he simply took another form and will return to assist harry potter on some level or another.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

i believe that dumbledore is eternal, like the forces of good. i think that when he passed, he simply took another form and will return to assist harry potter on some level or another.

XxAxX said:

and wouldn't that just be the kicker? succeeding in voldemorts quest without resorting to the measure voldemort did?

CarrieMpls said:

we can only hope...

God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I'll say it again
God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in Tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in Mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in Yoga
I don't believe in Kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me...and that reality

The dream is over
What can I say?
the Dream is Over
Yesterday
I was the Dreamweaver
But now I'm reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I'm John
and so dear friends
you'll just have to carry on
The Dream is over

Natisse said:

you guys crack me up!

God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I'll say it again
God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in Tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in Mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in Yoga
I don't believe in Kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me...and that reality

The dream is over
What can I say?
the Dream is Over
Yesterday
I was the Dreamweaver
But now I'm reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I'm John
and so dear friends
you'll just have to carry on
The Dream is over

purplerein said:

looks like SOMEone woke up on the cynical side of the bed this morning

IrresistibleB1tch said:

dude please this is DUMBLEDORE. if he can't do it no one can.

retina said:

i want to listen to what you have to say!

now expound on this, or my ego will grow exponentially! and nobody wants that!

IrresistibleB1tch said:

True, true...

Okay, so here are a few things:

I believe that despite what people say, everything is not relative.

I believe that it is difficult to be a human being, and that we should cut each other some slack.

I believe that there are no shortcuts to wisdom. You can agree with a wise statement as much as you like, but you will never understand it fully until life has let you live its meaning.

I believe that there are cultural barriers in the world that will never be broken down.

I believe that a lot of religious people forget that God has a sense of humour.

I believe that good parenting is one of the skills that are hardest for a human being to learn, and most praiseworthy when they do learn them.

I believe that it is possible to die of grief.

I believe that it is harder to figure out what to do than to actually do it.

I believe that people often confuse a good listener with a submissive admirer.

I believe that we're still monkeys when it comes to sex.

I believe that self-betrayal is the most harmful form of betrayal, although not the most malicious one.

I believe that there is no such thing as being "blissfully ignorant".

I believe that people that are still pompous after the age of 30 need a good spanking.

I believe that people that are still pompous after the age of 30 need a good spanking.

retina said:

IrresistibleB1tch said:

look, this is all very well and good but what i really want to know is this:


did dumbledore REALLY die or will j.k. rowling bring him back for the last harry potter book, like gandalf in lord of the rings???

XxAxX said:

applekisses said:

well, i still think he'll be back somehow.

God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I'll say it again
God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in Tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in Mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in Yoga
I don't believe in Kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me...and that reality

This I Believe: Edward R. Murrow
(Introduction to 1950s radio series)

This I Believe. By that name, we bring you a new series of radio broadcasts presenting the personal philosophies of thoughtful men and woman in all walks of life. In this brief time each night, a banker or a butcher, a painter or a social worker, people of all kinds who need have nothing more in common than integrity-a real honesty-will talk out loud about the rules they live by, the things they have found to be the basic values in their lives.

We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion. A lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism, or a for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the marketplace, while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply. Around us all-now high like a distant thunderhead, now close upon us with the wet choking intimacy of a London fog-there is an enveloping cloud of fear.

There is a physical fear, the kind that drives some of us to flee our homes and burrow into the ground in the bottom of a Montana valley like prairie dogs to try to escape, if only for a little while, the sound and the fury of the A-bombs or the hell bombs or whatever may be coming. There is a mental fear which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down his house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt-doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we have long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging.

It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong. What truths can a human being afford to furnish the cluttered nervous room of his mind with when he has no real idea how long a lease he has on the future. It is to try to meet the challenge of such questions that we have prepared these broadcasts. It has been a difficult task and a delicate one. Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice-and those thoughts we aren't interested in-people don't speak their beliefs easily or publicly.

In a way, our project has been an invasion of privacy, like demanding a man to let a stranger read his mail. General Lucius Clay remarked, "It would hardly be less embarrassing for an individual to be forced to disrobe in public than to unveil his private philosophy." Mrs. Roosevelt hesitated a long time. "What can I possibly say that will be of any value to anybody else," she asked us. And a railway executive in Philadelphia argued at first that we might as well try to engrave the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, as to attempt to discuss anything thoughtfully in the space of five minutes.

Yet, these people and many more have all made distinctive contributions of their beliefs to this series. You will hear from that inspiring woman, Helen Keller, who despite her blindness has lived a far richer life than most of us; from author Pearl Buck, sculptor William Zorach, businessmen and labor leaders, teachers and students. Perhaps we should warn you that there is one thing you won't hear, and that is a pat answer for the problems of life.

We don't pretend to make this time a spiritual or psychological patent medicine chest where one can come and get a pill of wisdom to be swallowed like an aspirin, to banish the headaches of our time. This reporter's beliefs are in a state of flux. It would be easier to enumerate the items I do not believe in, than the other way around. And yet, in talking to people, in listening to them, I have come to realize that I don't have a monopoly on the world's problems; others have their share, often far, far bigger than mine. This has helped me to see my own problems in truer perspective. And in learning how others have faced their problems, this has given me fresh ideas about how to tackle mine.

I hope as you listen to future programs on This I Believe, that they may be of assistance to you in a similar way.

I believe that we have put on this earth to learn lessons about ourselves, others and how we learn them (or IF we learn them) is completely up to us.
The only currency or something you can go to the grave understanding/owning as your own is how you have treated others while you were learning said lessons.

Always remember the power of your words and how they affect the people you care about. Communication with the people you love and the people who have helped you in life are not just essential but the number one reason for a lot of dysfunction with one’s own family.

Integrity and your actions are all that people use to judge you. Talk about grand plans, talk about what you will do, talk about injustice in the world. Then at the end of all of that talking, take ANY action to move the words into actions that will do something to accomplish what you've been talking about. The world is full of people who have a lot to say about everything but far fewer of those who actually did something to change them.

This (and so much more) I believe

Okay, so here are a few things:

I believe that despite what people say, everything is not relative.

I believe that it is difficult to be a human being, and that we should cut each other some slack.

I believe that there are no shortcuts to wisdom. You can agree with a wise statement as much as you like, but you will never understand it fully until life has let you live its meaning.

I believe that there are cultural barriers in the world that will never be broken down.

I believe that a lot of religious people forget that God has a sense of humour.

I believe that good parenting is one of the skills that are hardest for a human being to learn, and most praiseworthy when they do learn them.

I believe that it is possible to die of grief.

I believe that it is harder to figure out what to do than to actually do it.

I believe that people often confuse a good listener with a submissive admirer.

I believe that we're still monkeys when it comes to sex.

I believe that self-betrayal is the most harmful form of betrayal, although not the most malicious one.

I believe that there is no such thing as being "blissfully ignorant".

I believe that people that are still pompous after the age of 30 need a good spanking.