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Maybe it's really just anecdotal, but it seems there are those people who are worried their beliefs are threatened when I'm more concerned with being challenged by facts.

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Well, some would say that there is a lot of belief surrounding facts. And, as well, as you suggest a lot of belief surrounded by very few facts. Obviously, the two are entwined. One way out is to appreciate outcomes. If we depend upon X (a "fact"), to achieve a goal. And it works, we might be advised to keep depending upon (believing in?) X as a fact. In other words, we have to keep testing our ideas about the world. It seems to me that our "reality" is the relational patterns we experience and are part of. The average spider works within a two dimensional web, as I suppose the third dimension herself, while we are emersed in a multidimensional reality and our every action is a test of the accuracy of a host of "factual" assumptions. Deception comes from a lack of awareness in the nature and meaning of outcomes. That's where false reporting comes into play. The fact weakened believers live apart from experience and see only a fantasy world of self-affirming illusion.

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