The difference between believing and knowing.
Is there a difference?

 

Basically everything we think we know, Is a belief. A belief based on theory.
What does theory mean: (An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture.)
 (A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena.)

We don't know anything. We are merely co-existing with objects and people that we think are something we know.
But we really don't know. We only know its characteristic's and the effect its characteristic's have on our senses.

It's like feeling the wind on your face. You know its there, you can feel its effect on your body and face as it blows past you.
But do you have the even the most remote knowingness of what wind actually is? Of course you don't!

You know that wind can be used to dry your clothes, power windmills, makes tornadoes and hurricanes.

Just like you know how to use these objects around you, but you definitely don't know what they are.
You have a name for them that, was taught to you. You certainly were not born knowing what these things were,
As opposed to being hungry, you were born knowing what that was.
You didn't have to be taught to be hungry or know what is was, it just was truth, it is. Truth is.

Ok, we have established that we have many objects around us that, we have no idea what they are,
but we have a name and certain uses for them.

We are basically in a world where the majority of people walking around,
think they know things, but don't really know anything at all.

They are merely regurgitating or repeating what others have told them or read in a book and think they are knowledgeable.
If I tell you a fairy tale and you don't know it is a fairy tale/fantasy,
and you become the worlds leading authority on my fairy tale.
All the worlds governments and corporations are constantly coming to you for consultation on this subject, and you think you are knowledgeable.
Yes you are well versed in my fairy tale/fantasy/work of fiction. But what good is belief in fiction?
After all its just fiction. Your head will be full of meaningless garbage. Even though you have made sense of what I told you.
You are living in a world of Illusion, because the story is false.
You didn't take the time or have the awareness to investigate weather what you were being told was true.
Self hypnosis essentially.

What is Fiction? - An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality or truth but has been invented.

Perhaps you have accepted a particular theory (version, story, reasoning) of how the world
operates and what it consists of. And perhaps this theory has been regurgitating or repeating
amongst the masses for countless of generations. Perhaps there are many other theories out there
that may benefit you much more than the one you are operating on at this moment.
After all nothing is a fact its all theory.

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It is important to have a foundation on which to build an understanding upon.
That is what I am attempting to get you to realize.
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We exist.
We think.
We feel.
We have a body.
We live in the middle of our head.
We don't know how old we are.
We don't own anything.
We don't know anything outside ourselves.
We barely know ourselves.
We believe all sort of things about the world around us,
although these things we believe are only opinions taught to us by others.
We as a society have named objects, events or otherwise and given them characteristics in order
for us all to relate to each other when talking about a particular subject of our beliefs.
We have established that we have many objects around us that we have
no idea what they are, but we have a name and certain uses for them.

The best foundation is always Truth.

How is that for starters.

 

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