Shared Public Belief Structures
If we all believed something different about how the world is and works, could we still live together?
Is there an inherit function that exists in the human condition that provides for life independent of beliefs?
We all sleep, drink, eat, evacute waste, conceive, reproduce, physically act, and receive all the energies that exist in the universe. In this way, we share the earth with the other lifeforms on the planet. We also seek out other life that nourishes us. We seek out matter that contributes to our own. We gather unto ourselves liquids, solids, gases and other states of matter. Is it our belief in these things that makes them material to our continued existence?
There must be some other need that we require to satisfy that compels us to share with one another our beliefs about the perceived behaviors of actions in the world outside of our control. Is it loneliness? Is it a mechanism for survival? The benefits of shared actions are many from a survival standpoint. It provides for a greater attack/defense posture, shared burdens of labor, genetic pooling for reproduction, and a concentrating of experience/knowledge to further ‘informed’ action. Is there a need for shared beliefs when it comes to living? Is it really a matter of those who belief incorrectly will not survive and so accurate beliefs remain? How does this then relate to group dynamics?
A group needs to act in unison when the group is threatened. If an individual is threatened, does the group need to act? Is it the individual’s survival that compels only them to action in defense of their life? Does their shared belief structure with the group really come in to consideration when the individual is threatened? The human experience is individual. Each is capable of all the acts needed to stay alive. Continuing the human experience from one generation to the next is still an individual choice based on individual beliefs. Every one is born from just one with the resources of two. This is the basis of shared belief structures. Two must agree to provide, train, support, and defend one until the time that the one can do so for itself.
Is this the foundation of communities, civilizations and cultures? The act of having shared beliefs does not make a culture. It is the act of making these beliefs public that founds communities, families, civilization and cultures. Providing a universally stated and regulated standard against which actions are judged. Is the public statement for the individual or only for the group? The stated beliefs must be ‘truthful’ in its purest sense. Full of truth. Truth is action. Truth is not belief nor perception. Creating a structure or statement contrived for group benefit without benefit to the individual will fail. The individual will always choose life over belief. Forcing the choice of belief over life will create havoc and lead only to failed groups. Shared public beliefs should be few and based on truth. What else would be the function of beliefs?
Present groups, with their millions of stated beliefs in the form of administrative rules and regulations, unbound by law or truth, only bring havoc. Has the act of living functionally really changed so much for humanity over the course of our history? Do the shared public beliefs of today really reflect benefit to the group and the individual? Shared public beliefs are for the group. Truth is action. Humanity lives in action in a state of existence founded in action. Beliefs are not action.
What do you believe in?
