Knowledge and Belief
Is there a difference between knowing something and believing it? I mean, when it comes to the price of gas, I know it is $3.60 a gallon, but I can’t hardly believe it. I know that a giant redwood tree grows from a seed about the same size as that of a tomato seed, but I have a hard tyme believing that is possible. I know that I was made special and I am loved, but do I believe it? Well… It’s probable that 95% of what we “know” is because someone told us. 4% we figure out by experimentation and that lingering one percent, well, that is reserved for the stuff we find out by sheer dumb stupidity. Dumb stupidity might sound a bit redundant, but really, is a classification reserved for those things you just didn’t think through, but made perfect sense after you suffered the consequences of them. Come to think of it, that one percent might be a little low for some of us, but I digress. The truth is, a lot of what we know are things we accept as fact. We don’t question it because people we t...