someone they trust

“A belief told to others by someone they trust is, for most people, a subjective truth and no more based on fact than the belief that the world is held up by four elephants standing on the back of an enormous turtle.” - Rory Miller, Facing Violence

Comments: Once a belief sinks its tendrils deep in the mindset and mind-state the harder it is to communicate because that depth and breadth of connection is hard to extract, separate and open the mind to other aspects of life. When one truly believes to the point that fiction becomes fact and that fictional fact becomes a way of life then to cease that type of living involves death, a death fought against by the holder with more intestinal fortitude and vigor and force than any true aspect of reality. It seems humans live in a matrix that actually exists and its core program and programmer is our beliefs as coded by the monkey. Nothing informs us better that our goals must involve the monkey and that becomes problematic especially with conflict and violence.