Beliefs are not necessarily 'truth'

One of the misused words is the word 'truth'. 

There, I said it. Just about every religious or spiritual path is likely to be referred to as the truth, at one time or another. Not to mention people's beliefs about what is going on the world. 

And it so often happens that people post something that they heard on Facebook without a shred of concrete evidence. Let's take the 'hotels are taking in lots of young, male immigrants' story. I do think there is legitimate reason for concern if this is happening - but I haven't seen this with my own eyes, and I don't believe half of what I hear from conspiracy land these days. So I'm not going to take it as gospel just because lots of people are saying it. 

I want to see concrete evidence. 

Of course, sometimes we can use our intuition. The first time I felt something was amiss with what the media were telling us about Cov!d was a gut feeling. I later saw clear, irrefutable evidence that people gathering together was not causing lots of people to become ill, far from it. At best, it was a case of an illness that was real being grossly overexaggerated, to the point where people who were suffering for other reasons did not matter. My feeling is still that there was more to the whole story than that. Certainly, the push for a vaccine was very sinister. And the government having parties should give some clue that the fear porn being spread by the media was not entirely accurate. 

I do believe that it was a control exercise. But I wouldn't say that this belief is absolute, irrefutable truth. Sometimes the whole story has more tentacles and storylines to it, and it's easy to fit a story around what you believe. 

And whilst we're at it, I certainly don't take any 'vision from God' as being absolute truth, either. 

It's worth doing research on things but there is very little that we truly know. 

One thing that's become very noticeable is that some of the conspiracy theorists can believe some seriously wild stuff and class it as 'truth'. I read of someone saying that Cristiano Ronaldo was born a woman along with other male footballers. I think it's fair to class that sort of thing as nonsense. 

I am starting from a clean state after my breakdown this year. My beliefs have been shaken. Now I'm in the process of working out what is real for me. And that's a good place to start .. 

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