We Don't "Know" Anything

What do we know? Do we really know.... anything? Can you count the things in life that you actually are 100% certain of, and if you are able to write that list, can you write next to each item how you do? For an extreme example, somebody could say, "I know that the sun is 93 million miles from the Earth." Another person could chime in and say, "You don't actually know that." A third person could enter the conversation and say, "It is documented by science." And that, is what leads us to the ultimate question, how do we know? How do you know that the sun is 93 million miles from the Earth? If you ask the Christian faith, they know that Jesus in the Son of God. There is no belief, there is (somehow) only fact. There is a hell, and you will burn there should you say "There is no God."

We as the human race, in almost every aspect of our lives, have been taught for nearly all of our lives to believe. That is quite literally all that we do. We believe there is a solar system; we believe that the Earth is a sphere; we believe that in America when we vote, the votes are counted and accurate; we believe the things that the history books explain to us; we believe that money is a necessity - that nothing would work without it. That isn't to say they aren't true (or some of them) -- but it isn't to say they are true, either. We believe them to be true, because we are taught them to be true. In a world where a boyfriend will lie to his girlfriend about cheating on her -- what makes you think that for ultimate power, control and monopoly, the leaders would not?

Does it really make sense that we, as humans, are liars, thieves and cheats, but the people at the top are not? Are you happier hearing the stories on CNN and believing, than you are not believing anything at all? Could it be your sense of peace? The idea that you need to have an answer, instead of not having any answer at all? Is it truly unthinkable that the system we live in is designed in entirety to keep us right where we are? What if you found out tomorrow that Abrahamic religion is really one group that works together? What if you found out that Catholicism, Christianity and Judaism were actually all the same, and that the story for control was the real mission?

How many history books have you read, and instantly, that became truth? Why - because it was written in a book? Let alone, it's the same exact information that every school in America is studying. What if you found out tomorrow that it wasn't? What if you found out nothing about the history you believe is actually true at all? What would happen? What if everything you thought you knew was not true at all? Would you be able to handle it? Would you reject it? Would you start to go crazy, and start to become paranoid? Why are you so sure that you know, and why are you most comfortable living there, instead of living in the unknown?

Don't you think it would be a better place to live -- in the unknown? Wouldn't you feel more freedom, and more peace thinking, "I do believe there is a Jesus, but I do not know that." Why does it damage you so greatly to accept that most of your life.... you simply do not know? So many billions of people around the world are trapped in knowing things that they do not know, that is almost becomes a fear to have anything change. It's simple, it's easy, and it's the perfect recipe for idiocy. The more you refuse to not know, the less you will actually know. 

The purpose of this passage is not to say the history books are not true. It is not to say God does or does not exist; it is not to say the Earth is flat and not spherical; it is not to say that presidential elections in the wealthiest country of the world are rigged; it is to provoke the thoughts inside of your head of what you actually know. For example, if you've read the story of Benjamin Franklin - it's easy to trust and to believe that there was a key which sparked the invention of electricity. But you still do not know that. You were not there, and you saw no key tied to a kite, which sparked a bolt of lightning -- were you?

There are things that make sense to believe, and there are things that make sense not to believe. We have grown as a human race to take all of the things we hear and see from people, media, religion, corporations, education systems, politicians, governments..... and instantly.... we believe. We see a news story, and in our minds, now it's what happened. We watch a documentary, and suddenly, those are the facts. We attend a church and learn about God, and suddenly, it's not a belief anymore. We turn the things that people tell us into facts without any evidence at all, most of the time. And that's exactly how you build a system to control the masses.

If you don't see it, you can only believe it, and until you understand that, you will never actually know anything.