here's an interesting quote i found on the net about why we need truth rather than beliefs.
Belief has nothing to do with Truth. There is danger in Belief: it makes you feel that you know the TRUTH. And because you feel that you know the Truth, this becomes the greatest barrier in the search. Believe or disbelieve and you are blocked.
The Catholic believes in GOD, the communist believes in No-GOD. both are believers, it is all the same. Both have settled, without taking the trouble to go and discover it, the deeper is their belief, the stronger, the greater the barrier. They will live surrounded by their own illusion, self created, self sustained.
The society would like you to believe, because believers are good people, obedient, law abiding. They simply follow the crowd , like sheep.
The believer tries to adjust truth to himself, the seeker adjusts himself to TRUTH.
Even when truth is told to you, don't believe it! Explore, inquire, search, experiment, experience.
But how to attain to truth? It is not a question of belief, but a question of meditativeness. And what is mediation? Meditation is emptying your mind completly of all belief, ideology, concept, and thought.
the highlighted part reminds me of the WTS
what do you think of about this? i think sometimes we can all be guilty of ignoring truth in favour of our own beliefs.