Is there a distinction between the truth and a belief? How can you know something as a truth without believing it? Can you know something without being told? When an idea is pressed over and over again, and there is a strong basis for the idea, it easily becomes known. Once an idea is known it transfers into a belief and then truth.
Truth may be derived from believing. If you are told one thing many times your mind will start to believe it. For example; if a person is told they are over weight numerous times there is a large probability that they will begin to believe it. Once you are aware of something you can't avoid it. Your mind will remind you constantly of this awareness, and the more you see it the more you will believe it. That believing then transforms into a truth.
The United States of America is the most powerful country. We have power of much of the world and we are invincible. Were we not defied this power by the events of September 11, 2001? Is our truth still that we are unattainable in stature? Are we still told that this should not change our thoughts on our country? Were we proven wrong, but told not to believe it? When we are told something surmountable times it is embedded in our minds and we believe. The reasons for the belief may vary, but it is still there and it is still true to us.
There has to be to be a certain amount of evidence and logic in order for something to "become true". People do not want to believe something when there is a possibility of being let down. No matter how many times a person was told that wheels are not round, they
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