By Steve Rensberry
So utterly
So utterly
convinced, some
people are, that what they
believe is the unmitigated truth.
But what, please tell me, is the criteria?
Feelings? A changed life? Intuition? Circumstance?
An infinitely subjective spark from deep within the mind?
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Would you not have to have absolute knowledge, or be
absolute yourself, to know with certainty that
nothing at all exists to prove otherwise?
Surely to grapple onto absolute truth,
or what one thinks is absolute,
is to embark on a journey
of one's own making.
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Think of the time.
The decades. The years.
Wasted. Chasing rainbows.
Confusing effect with the wrong cause.
Believing death is not death,
but merely a doorway.
Fabricating reality
out of emotion.
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Must not
belief, to be valid,
belief, to be valid,
rest on sufficient evidence,
rather than on fanciful promises or
the dogmatic, fear-laden tenets
of institutionalized
superstition and
myth?