Practically all of our popular beliefs are still only theories. We are descendants of monkeys, our ancestors were cave-dwellers. The universe started with a Big Bang or by some divine act. Such and such a founder of a religion is the only legitimate representative of the truth. We are all equal. Violence is natural to the human being. The list goes on and on.
At a personal level, our beliefs about what can make us happy are mostly a bunch of premises based more on hope than on a real perception of our world and relationships.
Theories are not absolute truths
A good exercise would be to go through our convenient (yet basically unfounded theories) and rewrite them.
"my husband/wife is…"
"my religion/race/culture is better than yours"
"I can't change. I'm too lazy"
No beliefs or theories are fixed forever. If we could go to a deeper level of perception we would probably change them.
We would be able to see how excuses are the main weapons of our shaky premises. How excuses actually block the truth.
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