Chapter Six: Entries to the Sacred Book Part I

Entries Regarding Beliefs

The Sacred Book

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There are many beliefs in which the Universe operates. It may be revealed or it may be self-evident, but whatever way it wishes to manifest, it is done so to become a very personal thing, relative yet clear.

"The good about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The way something reveals itself requires recognition, by virtue or by derivation, and by observation or by reason. Persuasion, as the ultimate tool, becomes as important as the reasoning involved, for such mystery is inherently belonging to thinking itself, and by extension the existence of life, without fully knowing or comprehending. It exists without the known reasons for bringing forth such entity.

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."

Mahatma Gandhi

The more people or entire civilizations believe yet doubt on the basis of an intrinsic excuse nullifies that which was believed to be true, so that the same belief becomes a burden on account of reason but never been held to be correct. A dubious account, then, exists which fuels dissent or confusion.

"Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."

George Carlin

What else is there to provide for proof beyond reasonable doubt? Isn't the silence of the intellect clearly diminishes the fact that certainty exists, and that faith requires a certain form of confidence to become perfected. Are beliefs supposed to cast doubt on what it must say?

"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it is better to say one is humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I am a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."

Isaac Asimov

Yes. To believe that potions exist and that there is hidden power in the darkness is a certain belief in itself, by providing an observed reasoning that energy is conserved and neither created nor destroyed, simply requires no other explanation in itself, and where faith needed this same procedure to elucidate its meaning, are all based on the interpretation of the results, especially when the scientific method was competently employed. Wisdom is the core of all beliefs, and where there is wisdom, an organized thought, present and unblemished, there is an understanding of science that naturally follows.

"People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen."

Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Let people believe what they want to believe! Off with their heads! Leave no one alive! Death to them all, charge! Destroy the roots of this vile cult! There is nothing about a bloodless war that would avenge the injustices of these supposed noble patronage that affects the sanctity of those beliefs that had been desecrated by the same shameless order of priests. Charge!

"She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist."

Jean-Paul Satre

Doubt exists so that faith takes its own space. There is a void inside of every created being, so that love can eventually fill the gap. People always desire to be filled by something good because the body wanted to be complete, for it is an inherent desire, intrinsic and true, and this is only possible to reach if a person admits the accuracy of his own void and weaknesses within, uninterrupted and without a pretentious conviction on a blind confidence that things without physical manifestations, are automatically held to be untrue.

"What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out alright."

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

But what would Jesus, himself, say in the instance of a moral crisis? Isn't all that there is? To know what God wills for all of us, without selfish defeat or pretension? To subscribe to all that is good, and noble, and praiseworthy? To live and experience life has to offer, not shallowly but within the depths of the soul. Just like a brewing potion, life simmers in what is experienced to be good and unselfish. And then from these darkness shall a form of goodness will gloriously emerge.

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"Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices."

Roy T. Bennett

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