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What would require something to be a fact, David?

Because if something, just because something's written down doesn't make it true.

If we take the Bible, for instance, our belief in the Bible is what I think makes it true, me personally.

Just like our belief in any article, any newspaper, online message boards, social media,

we're believing that they're presenting the facts, but the facts has to come along

with evidence and proofs in order for it to be a fact.

If it doesn't, then in my mind, it's a belief.

So at what point does belief become truth if it ever does, in your opinion?

Well, you've answered it when facts and evidence come to bear.

When you have, you could look at it like, you know, you're going to have, you're observing

the world and life all the time and you're making judgment calls

based on that information. And you're, we have a built-in mechanism in our psyche that requires us to be,

requires our determinations and our judgments to be accurate and right and correct. Because

otherwise, our survival

is threatened. Like if you go on this massive camping trip to Mount Kilimanjaro and you don't

bring any equipment, right? Because you just, you wanted to just climb the mountain so badly,

but you didn't prepare properly for it. Well, nature doesn't care what your feelings are or the

fact that you had all these high hopes of climbing this mountain. If you don't prepare properly for it. Well, nature doesn't care what your feelings are or the fact that you had all these high hopes of climbing this mountain. If you don't prepare properly,

nature is going to kick you in the arse. It's just a fact of reality. And I think that that,

what I just said there, and there's many examples of that, that side of nature is extremely

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