I don't propose to know anything for certain because nothing is absolutely certain.
We were told most of what we know by people putting words on paper or stone or
whatever. Later we were told that those things were true. And if you don't believe them
you are a heretic. And worse than that if you don't believe what we tell you, you will be
ostracized from the community and may be put to death.
That is how the people in our resent and past thought. They were scared that you would lead others and their children to ruination. How absurd is that when you think about it.
The opposite would make more sense, you would more likely learn more and expand your thinking to greater depths like the few who did come with great ideas and inventions.
Some of them were literally destroyed by the nay--sayers who lived in every age, as we have been told by historians ect.
Why should we be scared by the truth? Therein lies a form the truth. What we are
told may not be the truth at all but what the ever--present controllers want us to
think. There is no end to where they would take us if we listen to them. We should
listen, but decide for our selves without fear of their narrow perspective.
Take the most important thing you can think of, say Religious belief. There is no way to prove or dis prove most of those beliefs, (of course others will disagree,) and that's fine.
We are actually too scared to question the high authorities of established religion.
Understandably, it is scary to go down that road. Does that mean we should never go down it. No! In fact we have an obligation to go down it no matter what the
so--called powers that dictate try to say or do. We need to question and never
stop questioning, them and ourselves until we are satisfied with the answers.
Do we have a spirit or soul? Maybe we do and maybe we don't. Does God exist?
WE don't know. And it is impossible to know for the average person with
human experiences. We can believe what we want, but we still don't know.
I'm not saying what I do or do not believe as it has changed many times over the years.
Each one will eventually reach his or her own conclusion, or not.
I call it my Unending Conclusion, as I have for decades.