> If you act as if something is true long enough eventually your brain will force you to believe it, or to stop those acts. So there's a chance you won't ever

> If you act as if something is true long enough eventually your brain will force you to believe it, or to stop those acts. So there's a chance you won't ever believe in it? That sounds liek what I was saying. > Plus anyway believers are neither inherently stupid nor possessing fundamentally different brain structures or anything that would enable a different set of experiences from everyone else. That's the part I doubt. I'm not saying I am or they are smarter, I don't think it has anything to do with intelligence. I just think people can have widely different personal experiences, and some people lack faith. There are a few mentions of this, either being called "dark night of the soul" or "spiritual dryness": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_dryness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_dryness. > All honest believers are also nonbelievers to some extent or at different times. What actions you take in the face of that contradiction is basically what defines your belief these days, as much as your creed does. That's true when you consider people from an external perspective. I was asking about internal experiences.