What is?

Recent Reflections…

Faith is believing without seeing (having no proof). Belief is an idea accepted as being true. True is being in accordance with reality. Reality is something that exists independently of ideas concerning it.
An Idea is something, such as a thought or conception, that potentially or actually exists in the mind as a product of mental activity.

If reality exists independent of ideas concerning it, how can one believe in reality?

To believe in reality is to believe in truth.

-In order to establish a reality, one must first seek to establish an idea. This requires faith that the idea is true. Believing in reality is pure faith.

(To prove an idea, it must be repeatedly demonstrated and tested to produce consistent conclusions. These consistent conclusions are evidence. A Proof is a sequence of steps, statements, or demonstrations that leads to a valid conclusion. A conclusion is a proposition concluded or inferred from the premises of an argument. A proposition is statement in which something is affirmed or denied, so that it can therefore be significantly characterized as either true or false. A premise is a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.)

So the saying goes.. whatever you seek, you will find.

To establish a conclusion, an idea must exist with an intent. Intention is an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result. To determine is to limit (a notion) by adding differentiating characteristics. Characteristics are features that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; distinguishing marks or traits.
Acknowledging (recognizing or identifying) characteristics is to accept them as true.

Can a conclusion be established void of intent?

Faith is required with every initial premise until evidence is presented as valid or invalid. Then one can decide to accept or reject it as true.

Faith is believing without seeing. All belief is based on trust. Trust is a commitment to expect a certain outcome.

Free will allows us to think freely and choose what we seek and where we seek it.
We gain idea’s through observing the world around us.
Free will is the ability to freely seek our desires- our wants, our expressed wishes, our requests. Do we decide these desires? What are our desires?

Whether you think you are right or wrong, you are right. Knowing this, how do we rely on our own judgment?

Establishing an idea and accepting it as true does not mean it conforms with an absolute reality.

Are truths made any more or less real whether we believe them to exist or not?

The less we seek to know, the less we think to seek.

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If reality exists independent of ideas concerning it, how can one believe in reality?

If you do believe in a reality, what reality do you believe in? How can we know what is truth? Is absolute reality anything we find when we seek pure truth? Even though we may not know what pure truth is, must we seek before we find?