Can you choose what you believe?

[Grey Acumen]

fkusumot said:

mesoteto said:
it depens on the country you live in---in america for the most part you can choose , but in countries like china and middle eastern they have more rules and more regulations on freedom of choice

They have rules about whether you can believe the moon is made of green cheese in ChIna? Reallly? If you can give me a reference for a law that that can regulate what you're allowed to believe in I would be interested.

Well, I could point out how China recently blocked all of the protest videos on youtube for tibet. I think if they thought it was possible to regulate your beliefs, they probably would have laws dictating that. Of course, a question this raises, is if you have a belief, but can never say it out loud, is it really your belief?

But in reference to the original question, it is possible to change your beliefs in a single day, provided you have new informaton or specific motivation behind those beliefs, otherwise it would take a great deal of time to change a belief without any reason at all.