A NON-BELIEVER, YOU ARE?

An interesting question?

“Are you a non-believer?”

I can imagine it coming from the lips

In shock, outrage, or disbelief

Apart from that, it is a non-question.

It is equivalent to asking the opposite

“Are you a believer”? The other person

Looks at you, in confusion, “believe what?”

Now, we have two (or more) confused people

Belief, non-belief, ridiculous pseudo-dualism

Everything is belief. Belief is everything

The branding, labelling and packaging differs

It remains the same: ideas, conjecture, maybe’s

If we do this, say that; prohibit this or that or the other thing

We might gain peace and enlightenment. In such a case

Defining what one believes to be injurious to that goal

Is as important as defining that which is desirous

If there is to be an “us” there must be a “them”, the bad guys

So, in the marvel of conversation, what fun we have

Some words remain common to us all, the rest get shades of meaning

The immediate method of picking up semantic differences is by listening

Carefully and attentively. A learned skill for some, for others it is natural

Listening! Listening to listen, to understand; not to superimpose your belief

System. May do have that skillset; choosing to listen to enough to frame a response

Choosing the combative model of argument. Frustration, and end of the conversation.

The moral of the story is? How you react or choose to continue a discussion decides

The direction, and possibly, the outcome of that conversation. Either way, it’s a choice

If one chooses the argumentative road, it will end up as an argument; with zero communication

Are you a believer? Welcome, we all are! The debates are as old as our civilisation. Can we “know” anything? 

We know that once born, we are going to die. That's for certain.

Otherwise, it’s the belief or having the evidence to justify the belief. Religious/secular?

The evidence is contingent on our belief vs belief is contingent on the evidence

In the former, beliefs are fixed; in the latter beliefs are open to change given evidence

Of change, or development of an existing hypothesis. The universe is a puzzle

We try to arrange or rearrange the pieces of the puzzle into a picture

Sometimes, we win; sometimes, we lose; we keep on going. It’s exhilarating

Scary, mind-bending, mind-blowing; it’s part of our purpose to be on Earth

A reason why we’re born, develop and grow; part of the reason for our birth