”Belief is the absence of knowledge.” (1)Belief is a space filler in the mind. It is a substitute for the information necessary to reaching understanding through the process of examination and reexamination. Belief is the lazy way out and the dangerous route. Even so, truth is not validated or invalidated by belief; however, lies depend on belief. The process of examination and reexamination exposes them both.
Belief Street
Belief is a dead end (closed-minded) process. It leads to nowhere away from knowing where. Belief leaves you right where you found each other. Belief is a narrow, one way, dead end street. There is no room to turn around. The only way to change direction is to back up. Not many are comfortable enough going in reverse in order to get out of a messed up situation. As a result, you park right where you are and move in, on Belief Street, becoming a true believer for life because you feel stuck and too ashamed to admit it. As a further result, since you know it, you are self-convicted and feel guilt, thus self-afflicted but not enough to be self-evicted from Belief Street through self-correction into a different direction. Thus, the secret lies in your thought processes, reveal themselves in behaviors.Relationships | Stupidity, Sadistic & Anti-God Behaviors (1) ben-Jochannan, Dr. Yosef, paraphrased from “African Roots Of Our Beliefs And Science.”
