Fear Fuels Belief  Acharya Prashant - video Dailymotion

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00:00Decades and decades of indiscreet belief

00:03simply kills your

00:05faculty to investigate

00:07if you don't believe, something bad will happen to you.

00:09That belongs to the same genre

00:11as the kind of people who

00:13leave comments

00:15on social media saying, if you do not

00:17subscribe to my channel, your mother will die.

00:19And they get ample subscribers.

00:21They are exploiting your vulnerability

00:23to beliefs.

00:25They are exploiting your exposure

00:27to fear. They are exploiting

00:29your lack of certainty

00:31in the truth. They exploit your

00:33risk averseness. They know very

00:35well that they can serve any

00:37kind of horse dung

00:39to you. And you will

00:41not comprehensively reject

00:43it. Why? Because you want to play

00:45safe. You want to say, what if I reject

00:47it and some harm comes to

00:49me? What if there is a 0.1%

00:51chance that all this is true?

00:53Why should I be the first one

00:55to run the risk? Everybody else seems

00:57to believe in it. Let me also believe in it.

00:59Let me belong to the crowd.