| Your existing beliefs are so powerful, they color everything--especially everything you will read on this web site and related UCADIA sites. |
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| You filter everything you read on Ucadia and related sites by your pre-existing beliefs |
| An example of how belief affects everything we do is how you naturally approach any new or controversial content you discover on UCADIA and any related sites. If the new information is consistent with your pre-existing beliefs, then the information is more likely to be accepted as true--if it clashes in any way, then the information you have read is more likely to be rejected. |
| So strongly do we rely upon our "belief system" to filter information, sometimes we may simply judge an entire body of information as true or false, simply on a single sample, or recommendation from a trusted source. |
| Such assumptions are far from logical. Taking a single sentence or paragraph from a body of information may cause it to be analyzed completely out of context--resulting in a false conclusion, yet many of us make up our minds on such small samples of data on a wide range of subjects each and every day. |
| The answer "in theory" as to how our trust in our belief system works is to be found in the claimed original definitions for belief being from the early medieval English word bileafe, a translation of the Old
English word geleafa , just one of the many translations in old European
languages of the ancient Germanic celtic word- zlaubjan (hold dear,
cherish, trust in). In other words, belief appears just another way of saying "to trust something". |
| But is this etymology of the word belief wholly accurate? Belief appears to be more than simply trust, but more akin to faith. In fact this is precisely the second seven hundred year old ancient definition attributed to belief as "absolute trust in God; the virtue of faith"
(with the word faith replacing the Latin word for trust fides. |
| In other words, belief in its original form is better defined as a kind of "blind faith" as oppossed to any process involving conscious decision making. If anything, the use of belief filters true to these alleged original definitions demand a man or woman not engage in any kind of critical analysis but dismiss any information immediately out of hand if it does not come from a trusted "official" source. |
| Belief therefore has more to do with a kind of religious orthodoxy and dogma than any natural mechanism for making sense of the daily overload of information. So what is the true origin of this word? |
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| Belief and the Roman College of Abbreviators |
| It has been known by linguists and language architects for millenia that by shortening (abbreviating) old words and then combining them that new words represented compressed sentences may be created. |
| This is precisely what the Roman Cult College of Abbreviators under the command of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) did in establishing a legal framework of control through the creation of thousands of new words through medieval Latin that later were transported into other manufactured languages such as Anglaise and later English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish etc. |
| One of those key words was the creation of the word "be-li-ef" through the abbreviation of three Latin words: |
| be = bestia : animal, beast. |
| li = ligo : to bind, tie. |
| ef = efficio : to do, produce, effect, make / bring about, cause / prove. |
| In other words, the true personality and meaning of Belief is "to cause the binding of animals". |
| To truly understand the implication of this meaning, the reader needs to understand that the Roman Cult considered all men and women, not members of the Cult to be nothing more than animals and therefore the property of the Roman Catholic Cult, like any other goods and chattel. |
| The clearest example of this is evidenced in the Papal Bull Unum Sanctum by Pope Boniface VIII in 1302 which stated "Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff". As this original law has never been repealed, it stands today that the Roman Catholic Church still considers all men and women not bona fide members of the Roman Cult as "creatures" and animals--hence the importance of promoting "belief". |
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| Many may reject this true original definition of "belief" |
| Many who read this page will refuse to believe this true and original definition of belief --an excellent example of the power of the "blind faith" of belief in action. For some, the argument will be through the lack of "hard evidence" and citations--a parallel system also created by the Roman Cult to "end the proof of truth through argument" and force all evidence of truth in discussion to be based on referred sources. |
| As the Vatican has remained the greatest source of ancient forgeries for over 1,000 years, this citation system has been a priceless tool in reinforcing belief and stopping even the most educated of minds from considering a logical and well formed argument as being its own proof. |
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Key Influence of Belief