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42 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROOF AND BELIEF

Unfortunately, naive people believe that the appearance of reality is the same as reality and that a circumstantial proof is the same as a proof, or that if a celebrity says that something is good it means that it is, so they easily believe scammers. They do not understand that evil is always more comfortable where people think that good is, and that all beliefs or scientific statements, even if they are opposed, can have arguments in their favor, because sometimes the key to a choice is not there in which one option is completely wrong and the other completely adequate, most of the time it is a question of deciding which option is the best, that is, which option has the most advantages and the least disadvantages. It must be understood that there are always people interested in obtaining circumstantial evidence or alleged evidence to deceive the unwary, that is, they seek evidence to prove lies.

It must be borne in mind that in the universe there are infinite options for everything and each path can have some advantages but also other disadvantages, therefore, you can always find reasons to support an idea even if, in absolute terms, the conclusion is wrong that you want to extract from it. This means that the key to knowing that one path is correct is to show that it has more advantages than disadvantages, but without this meaning that the other path does not also have positive elements that are not on the right path. In other words, in the end the final choice will depend on the percentage of advantages or disadvantages that each option has. This shows us that the fact that someone teaches us reasonable evidence or arguments to support a claim does not mean that the overall conclusion is correct, because for that we have to take into account all the aspects that intervene in each question and not only the that he presents to us. In other words, each path may have certain proofs in its favor, but when it comes to drawing a conclusion about something that has multiple aspects, the decision has to fall on the side that has the most advantages. That is why it is so important to learn to differentiate between proof and belief, because a proof of something is not the same as a proof of everything, and there are many who use partial proofs to defend questions that go far beyond what is demonstrated with those tests.

We see this continuously in the news spaces, because each voter always believes the information that comes from their party and despises the information that comes from the opposite, that is why there are television channels and newspapers dedicated to lying to support a specific political party. During electoral campaigns, film actors tend to publicly support the left because once these parties gain power, they usually pay them the favor with large public investments for the production of mediocre films that no one sees later. This is undoubtedly an act of corruption, but raised legally. Right-wing parties tend to favor companies more than workers, although it is difficult to distinguish when that support only favors the company and not the worker. This shows that the division of society between left and right is only a mirage created by politicians to distribute power alternately because the truth is neither right nor left but neutral. In current politics the universal dimensions are reproduced as in so many other things, because the right represents the horizontal, red and masculine dimension, and the left represents the vertical, blue and feminine dimension. In reality, both ideologies are equally necessary because one defends mainly the masculine aspects of life and the other the feminine ones, but since it is impossible for society to prosper without cooperation between the two forces, the current division of society into parties is completely unrealistic and only causes social tension when parties incite citizens to hate their opponents in order to obtain power. It is necessary for humanity to progress towards a system that overcomes this artificial division of the world between right and left to give rise to a political system in which the key and the last word are not held by politicians or swindlers on duty but rather each and every one of the laws is decided by the citizens directly. The truth is that politicians badly called Democrats want citizens to only be able to choose which party governs them, but without being able to choose the laws directly, it is like allowing the dog to choose which owner is going to be carried by the leash but without any right to choose the way forward.

It is true that a contemporary democracy is better than a dictatorship or communism, but it is also just as true that this system is not a true democracy, because for this it would be necessary for the monopoly that political parties now have to end to give rise to a system in which citizens can choose laws directly. However, the key to making a government effective is not based only on whether it is a democracy, a monarchy or a dictatorship, but rather that all layers of society progress and improve their culture until they come to know the great universal truths and apply them to your personal life and government, because there is no better way to avoid manipulation by tyrants than to possess the knowledge of the truth.

This artificial division of society between left and right recalls the old division between those who worshiped male gods like Zeus and those who worshiped female gods like Athena, later with the arrival of Christianity we could also observe it among those who idolize the virgin or Jesus. This behavior is the consequence of not understanding that it is necessary to abandon the creation of idols to worship and become aware of our own ability to manage life and vote the laws. In the religious aspect it is necessary to understand that it does not make sense to create plastic idols as it happens today, it is correct to value the teachings of the ancient philosophers, but without turning them into idols. When people build idols to represent divinity they always make them in the image and likeness of man, this is undoubtedly an act of arrogance, because by making them that way they are trying to worship themselves. In reality God is not a man, he is not even an individual being, but he is everything that unites the universe into one single thing.

Nor does it make sense to go to the temples, because the truth has no borders and exists everywhere, it is our duty to search for it ourselves without allowing religious organizations to tell us what it is, since they always do it by distorting the truth in their favor. Because God does not dwell in churches but in the soul of the just, he is neither male nor female, nor is he left or right, but rather is neutral, because it contains the two universal poles equally within it.

The ambiguity of the truth can also be observed in the different religions, because it is a serious mistake to think that all truth belongs to one religion and all lies to others, because religion is not different from any other branch of knowledge. Since ancient times, religions have evolved to offer us their different versions of the universe and surely all have a partial knowledge of that truth, some will be right in some things and others will be right in others, for that reason, one day they will all come to be equal when progress definitively clarifies which beliefs are correct and which are wrong. When that time comes in the world there will be only one religion and it is the one that is based on truth.

Because what is the truth or the lie? There are people who think that the truth is what the majority believe, others believe that the truth is that belief that lasts a long time, however, there are beliefs that have been accepted by the majority for a long time and yet centuries later it has been demonstrated that they were wrong, as for example when it was believed that the Earth was flat and the sun revolved around it. But if to the difference between the truth and the lie that ignorance creates is added the confusion that power creates or, in other words, the confusion created by those who lie to achieve power is added in the end, it is difficult to know what it is that truth. It is as if there were a relative truth and an absolute truth and it is difficult to know to which of the two what we believe belongs. Therefore, we must not become excessively passionate about our beliefs or deny others the right to believe what they consider appropriate if they do not harm anyone, because the truths of the present can be the lies of the future. In reality, in the universe there is no one who knows everything about everything or has no doubts, not even beings superior to us who advance us by a million years of technological advantage. We all have doubts about our own opinions because in all people and on all planets there is what could be called a frontier of knowledge. In other words, we all have a limit of knowledge where what we know ends and what we have to learn begins, therefore, on that border where the limits of knowledge are, all beings in the universe have doubts. It is good to appreciate the teachings that philosophers, scientists, higher spirits or extraterrestrial beings can bring us, but that is not a reason to make them idols or equate them with God.