24A028 Belief and Action by Jim Davies, 7/23/2024

What we believe determines what we do.

It matters little whether the beliefs are sensible and rational or fanciful and superstitious; nor whether they are harmful or beneficial, right or wrong, true or false. If you hold a belief, you'll act accordingly. As Proverbs 23:7 puts it: "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Interesting, that the writer reckons that kind of thought takes place in the heart, rather than the brain; perhaps he counts emotion as part of the belief-thought process.

A good example of this came in the ZGBlog Authority. Large numbers of people believe that a group calling itself "government" has the right to rule everyone, so they obey the group's edicts. Belief and action. The belief is dead wrong, as was shown there, but action results just as if it had been true.

Beliefs are strongly affected and instilled by what is taught, especially when young. "Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man" said Aristotle, a sinister promise repeated by Loyola, founder of the Jesuit sect that persecuted people with unauthorized beliefs. Hence the current, urgent steps to extend child-care and kindergarten to an ever younger age; kids need to be taught as young as possible to obey authority. Parents, who might not agree, are a nuisance and distraction.

So if a person believes that the creator of universe has decreed that people of his race have been granted permanent living rights between the Jordan and the Med, he will move there or at least support those who do. If others have been taught in kindergarten and ever since that on the contrary, such people are interlopers who stole their land and should be killed at every opportunity by order of the creator, they will likely get shooting. It's a matter of belief.

Or if anyone believes that the Bible is a true record of what the creator says to humans, he will pay attention to that message and try to live accordingly. This works; Christians, for example, are usually very nice people. That doesn't prove that their belief is true, just that my theme here is accurate: actions follow beliefs.

If someone believed that the Covid bug caused a deadly pandemic and that masks would protect him, he would mask up; or if that "vaccines" would immunize him, he'd get jabbed. Action followed belief.

None of the beliefs mentioned above have any solid proof of veracity beneath them; they are all adopted on faith. That's often true, and they may come from tradition, handed down from one generation to the next. Australian Aborigines for example believe that life arose when the father of all spirits woke the Sun Mother and sent her down to dry land where she walked around causing all spirits to awake and all plants and fishes to spring to life; after which she taught all creatures to live in peace and then rose up to become the Sun. It's a pleasant tale, and sure enough the Aborigines were a more peaceful race than most. Actions follow beliefs.

The Jewish version of creation is a bit different: "In the beginning, God created..." followed by a chronology - a sequence that could possibly be correct. The objectionable aspect of that Genesis account is that it's presented as dogma (take it or leave it) yet without a shred of proof or reasoning or even authorship. It asserts in those quoted words that there was a beginning; in fact it's still not clear that the Universe had one, and in any case it's quite hard to define what such a "beginning" might mean, because time is necessarily in the universe, not vice versa. Nor, of course, is "God" defined. So it's fair to say that those opening five words are meaningless. But if someone believes them anyway, his conduct will conform to the belief.

The beliefs commended in all these ZGBlogs are based not on imagination or unsupported dogma or superstition, but on hard fact and rigorous logic; that is, upon reason. They begin with the irrefutable premise - the axiom - of self-ownership. Freedom's Firm Foundation offers more detail, but among the actions that follow from this belief are:

1. You will live, and let live; that is, you'll not try to over-rule anyone else's choices regarding his or her own life. Not directly, nor by political proxy.

2. You'll enjoy and cherish and protect your own exclusive control over your own life

3. You'll set out to persuade (but not compel!) everyone to join you in that belief, so as dramatically to reduce the protective work needed in #2

4. You'll develop and satisfy a strong appetite for knowledge about how to best prosper in the resulting free, zero government society

Big Brother's Database

"Why and how does the government have access to the DNA and biometric data of someone who isn’t a criminal? How were was the FBI able to analyze his DNA to discover [Thomas Crooks'] identity within an hour plus, after the shooting? What database was used?

"Has the government just de facto admitted that they have DNA and biometric data on most of us?"
- Dr Robertt Malone.

(Alternatively, they knew who Crooks was because they placed him there.)