They collect beliefs and trade them, sell them or give them away.
They
invent them and bargain for them or steal them.
Hawkeen
will believe anything you want them to.
They will
believe everything and its opposite also.
They know
that beliefs are what make your head work, that a belief is what it does.
Another
belief of theirs.
The
Hawkeen have a belief that the more beliefs one has, the more choices one
has.
Most people
want fewer beliefs, they want their list to be short and correct so they can
commit it to memory.
Religions
seem to be that way.
But the
Hawkeen are different and some say just plain stubborn.
They can
believe anything to the point where it’s the same as believing nothing at
all.
I suppose
fundamentally they believe that there is nothing not to believe, if that makes
any sense.
When you
ask about Hawkeen belief you’re stepping into quicksand.
Beliefs
are valued as to their usefulness in any particular situation, and situations
change.
They
figured out a long time ago that much of the conflict in oneself or between
people or nations has to do with colliding beliefs.
So they
decided to save themselves a lot of grief and believe everything.
It’s like
bubbles.
All the
small bubbles of belief crowd against one another… join and rejoin until there
is just one giant bubble.
Then some
Hawkeen take delight in popping it.
No
bubble, no boundary!
People
have a terrible desire to be right.
Many
people will sacrifice their own happiness and that of those around them.
They will
sacrifice their lives and everything dear to them to be right.
Being
wrong seems to create an unbearable tension.
Many
people’s opinions of themselves and the world are more important to them than
the result the opinions bring.
Being
wrong hints of losing one’s bearings… losing one’s mind and going mad, or
worse.
It’s a
natural fear, this being wrong and a great one, often greater than the fear of
death, because many people will die before they will be wrong.
But it’s
interesting to contemplate being wrong.
What if
you were wrong about yourself in major ways that would benefit you!
Sometimes
great problems can be solved easily by being wrong.
Often
it’s a very simple choice… would you rather be right or happy?
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