When we know (understand) something, we are not afraid to investigate that which agrees, disagrees or takes us other places, because we know there is always more to know, even if it results in something opposite to what we already know. A person who knows or seeks to know, welcomes change.
A person who believes does not welcome change because first of all, they don't understand what they believe in and second of all they don't want to go through the process of trying to understand something that runs counter to their secure feeling belief. The believer has very little to hold onto, thus holds on desperately.
This is belief in the suboptimal sense.
Belief in the optimal sense, goes through the process of investigation until it matures into knowing and more knowing and keeps going. In order to grasp something new, different or get a better grip on it, you must be able to let go, to some degree, of what you are already holding in logic, or at least set it aside long enough to check out something else.
I now understand why some people won't loosen their grip even a little.
The thing they are holding onto floats in air and hangs over a cliff with no foundation, like the miraculous floating family tree of recent history.
It is not certainty of understandings that causes a person to hold on so tightly, but rather uncertainty of understandings.
Strong belief, as proof of concept, is self-deception.It is fakery bravado and faith without foundation that is the big bad bluff of fear.
Because believers do not understand, their main basis for what they believe in, never holds up to scrutiny. Their final fallback answer is always, I just believe, I know, I have faith, I have a feeling, I know it in my heart, etc.
Knowing tends towards dualities and open mindedness.
Belief tends towards one-sidedness and close mindedness. Far too many people are still basing their most important logic on belief.
The cycle for belief to rule over knowing is coming to an end.
The doors to knowing have been opened in all ways for us to know more no matter our condition or situation. The cycle of messages and messengers is also changing because the Creator has not given up reaching us and is changing the essence and form of messages and messengers, thus we should expect to come into contact with needed information in unexpected ways.
