05-15-2011, 12:00 AM
Thanks for sharing about information, beliefs, and knowledge. It was very useful to me Alien.
I see all three are factors, and why its the "price paid" that makes something knowledge. Information fills up the world, gives it such complexity and choice, which tests us by asking us to make choices, narrow decision and navigate the vastness of contradictions. Beliefs can guide us to knowledge by serving as a path for intent to actualize, and then again beliefs can just as easily steer us away from acquiring knowledge.. as you said, when beliefs remain unexamined or untested, thus hive mentality rules the mindset in such a case.
Arriving at knowledge is experiencing first hand this gnosis you talk about. Of course gnosis is just terminology to describe a very real experience in percpetion that literally needs no definition to the one experiencing it and its only in the explaining we are forced to use words, which then becomes information and beliefs to others until they have a first hand knowledge themselves.To utilize first hand knowledge is to be a man/woman of knowledge. It could be called also self-empowerment.
I see all three are factors, and why its the "price paid" that makes something knowledge. Information fills up the world, gives it such complexity and choice, which tests us by asking us to make choices, narrow decision and navigate the vastness of contradictions. Beliefs can guide us to knowledge by serving as a path for intent to actualize, and then again beliefs can just as easily steer us away from acquiring knowledge.. as you said, when beliefs remain unexamined or untested, thus hive mentality rules the mindset in such a case.
Arriving at knowledge is experiencing first hand this gnosis you talk about. Of course gnosis is just terminology to describe a very real experience in percpetion that literally needs no definition to the one experiencing it and its only in the explaining we are forced to use words, which then becomes information and beliefs to others until they have a first hand knowledge themselves.To utilize first hand knowledge is to be a man/woman of knowledge. It could be called also self-empowerment.