How do you know?

 

How do you know someone might ask anyone presuming to tell something about life beyond the everyday experienced world. Someone might ask how you know what is going on on the other side of the world, even with cable news. Consider some people doubt we ever went to the moon. They think it is a media hoax of the public. One might go so far as to doubt there is a world at all rather than a virtual reality depiction of life in the world. 

Yet, there are ways one can judge what one hears said about life or anything at all. There are three stages to the judgment skill process I hope to use whenever I hear about China, Russia, Africa or Europe, or even Kansas, for that matter. They are simple reference processes that help sort all the information one receives every day, whether in person or from any media source.

The first stage is to ask is it believable? Is the information possible to consider true, or does it just make one think, "you've got to be kidding?" If not, it is somewhat believed a possibility to you and perhaps anyone who heard it that has the same background as you. 

The second stage is to ask, "does it sound logical?" Is it logical to think it is possible? Would the rules of nature support such a thing being true. Would you have to suspend the laws of physics to believe such a thing was true. 

The third and final stage is to ask yourself, "do I have any experience this is so?"  Do I already know this from personal experience? Am I an eyewitness that this is a fact? Or do I have to gain a personal experience to know if it is the truth?

A lot of what I write is believable if you can suspend physics laws as game rules that can be violated for circumstances permitting, like an act of God. Further, if you can believe the science that we may be in a simulation, then physics's programmed laws are easily violated for the program exceptions to the rule. 

A lot of what I write is logical if you can accept infinitesimal space as the foundation of everything else. Infinitesimal space honeycombs reality once you get over the finite doubts one may think such as there is no such thing as infinity. Remember, pi, e, and the square root of two all prove infinity is a mathematical concept, not just an absurd idea.  

I have written this just in the odd case you thought I only write fan fiction about the infinite as alive, mind, and God just because I am not displaying any sign of personal experience that this is so. I am still very human in the range of my personal experience. I am not a major siddhi. I have just been contemplating infinity for decades. It is my obsession. I like the world and what everything looks like in the infinite theater of the mind. Taken as the theater of the mind, the world may not be a romantic comedy, but it is a very detailed science fiction production.