Not Beliefs
If I tell the sceptics:
My beliefs are not beliefs,
they are things I know
from my own experience,
they will say:
It is true
your beliefs are not beliefs –
they are delusions.
Prompt #27 for April at Poetic Asides: Two for Tuesday; Believe and/or Don't believe; write on either or both.
Also shared, much later, with Poets and Storytellers United at Friday Writings #64: Life is Stranger (and often sneakier) Than Fiction. I didn't write this piece for the (optional) prompt, but it's not unrelated!
A great observation Your beliefs are not your beliefs :)
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DeleteThey "believe" that your beliefs are delusions. Must avoid the "they" people - but it's hard, very hard to!
ReplyDeleteAh yes.
DeleteSkeptics can certainly muddy the waters and many are intractable. :)
ReplyDeleteI try to avoid engaging.
DeleteTrue, Rosemary, when we get too far off the norm people talk, perhaps even saying that we have delusions.
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But I think we haver more fun, lol!
DeleteI wish I could say I didn't understand where this was coming from. But lies look terrible on me. Some people are just so trapped in their "understanding" of everyone else's realities.
ReplyDeleteI guess it comforts them in some way.
DeleteHistory has many examples of that, and wars have been fought over it.
ReplyDeleteHa! True.
DeleteSo true. Keep away from the skeptics (if you can).
ReplyDeleteI do my best!
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