Belief and Factual believing

My brother (who is world famous) once posted that scientists have learned that fact and belief come from the same place in our brain. Thus one could argue that fact and belief are (in fact) the same thing. In my experience (which is not as vast as many who argue one way or another) We all have to belief in something (individually, groups, religions, scientific communities, etc) before we can agree that it is "real" or a "Fact" (which ironically is supposed to be something that is proven) [through a series of tests that that particular group has agreed will qualify the belief in question as real/factual.] 
The most important thing/feature/idea to recognize is that everything that we experience as life and surroundings is (in fact) interpreted through most of our five senses, albeit sight, hearing and touch tend to be used by most. Our brains then interpret what we see and hear (and the other senses too) and decides on what that input means to us and how much it matters to us. I believe that there is a chair in the middle of my bedroom. I can utilize all of my senses to determine that it is there and that it is what the dictionary defines as a chair. I can go out and get 13 (I like that number) other people and bring them into my bedroom and ask them to check the definition of chair and then test prove its existence via the 5 senses we all share (hopefully for the sake of this argument). If we all agree that the object is (in fact) a chair by the definition in the dictionary. the 14 of us can logically declare that the object is in fact a chair. Then we can play a rather ridiculous game of musical chair with a spot of tea (assuming everyone likes tea).
this is how the human race largely determines the things around us and in us and so on and so forth. People either forget that or never think much about it. I would daresay (and I try not to generalize) that most people take it for granted since their parents and teachers and friends and whoever else came up the street because they said so and that is always easier than arguing. Leave the arguing for more important things like coke or pepsi, chevy or ford, tastes great or less filling, god or no god, democrat or republican


chicken or the egg. Ironically it really only matters to the individual, When your child asks- you can go with the flow or you can gently tell them the truth as you know it or believe it (its semantics mostly) "it is up to you, Mikey." We all at some point want to let someone else tell us what is real, what to believe, where/what/how/why to shop/goto church/school (the list goes on). You could say it is in our human nature to do so. (Otherwise the term Masses would be meaningless I suspect). The only constant I CHOOSE to accept is that it is up to me to decide what to believe in, who to believe in, and what I am going to do about it. It would be a perfect world (more perfect) if everyone would do this. and then the birds would sing, generalization would cease to exist as would much of the human condition would to and the world would stop dead and we might all float out into space (assuming what kind of definition of gravity you choose to believe in/accept).


to sum up: Words, words, words, that is the matter upon which we discuss.




Quote for the day: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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