In theory , this is how it works . In reality , this is not how it works . <| sep |> Once you go extra heavy , you never go back . <| sep |> I could watch Nikki and Carmella do anything together and still be happy <| sep |> if you ' re 12 <| sep |> I ' m keeping some . Loving Saints and 49 ers MVP because of the blocking and boosts . They boost to 9695 on my team . Did Jordan Reed last night and flipped . Want to save for Xmas promo though . 332 total for me <| sep |> I like them <| sep |> Doesn ' t Trump ' s son in law own this paper ? <| sep |> Yes . You ' d be surprised how hard it is to keep people from stealing it . <| sep |> Many have illusions of a variety of things , including the illusion of choice . These illusions are beliefs i . e . thoughts that act as a screen or lens through which one engages the world . People use the word ' belief ' to fill a gap from what is actual to what is understood intellectually , in the psyche this belief , rooted in the past , contained in the psyche , then colors one ' s actions in the world . With ' belief , ' the mind is never free because your very belief projects what you think ought to be , what you think ought to be true . Belief implies accepting as true what we do not know . You never believe in the rising sun , it is there . Some say that life would be impossible if we do not believe for example , belief in the existence of London . But several things are involved in this that is , the question of verification . You can ask ten different people and they will tell you where London is you can also go and see that is verification . With verification there is no need for belief . I see what being human is , all the conditioning psychologically through culture , parents , education , religion , friends , etc . and physically through genetics and all the other environmental variables that have produced humans and the inherent limitations of thought and recognize there is no value in looking to the conditioning i . e . belief , the past for meaning . What seems to be more vital is the question is it possible to live in this world without a belief ? Not change beliefs , not substitute one belief for another , but be entirely free from all beliefs , so that one meets life anew each minute ? To have the capacity of meeting everything anew , from moment to moment , without the conditioning reaction of the past , so that there is not the cumulative effect which acts as a barrier between oneself and that which is . Belief is not reality . You may believe in God , but your belief has no more reality than that of the man who does not believe in God . Your belief is the result of your background , of your religion , of your fears , and the nonbelief of the communist and others is equally the result of their conditioning . To find out what is true , the mind must be free from belief and nonbelief . If we had no belief , what would happen to us ? Shouldn ' t we be very frightened of what might happen ? If we had no pattern of action , based on a belief either in God , or in capitalism , or in communism , or in socialism , or in imperialism , or in some kind of religious formula , some dogma in which we are conditioned we should feel utterly lost , shouldn ' t we ? And is not this acceptance of a belief the covering up of that fear the fear of being really nothing , of being empty ? After all , a cup is useful only when it is empty and a mind that is filled with beliefs , with dogmas , with assertions , with quotations , is really an uncreative mind it is merely a repetitive mind . To escape from that fear that fear of emptiness , that fear of loneliness , that fear of stagnation , of not arriving , not succeeding , not achieving , not being something , not becoming something is surely one of the reasons , is it not , why we accept beliefs so eagerly and greedily ? And , through acceptance of belief , do we understand ourselves ? On the contrary . A belief , religious or political , obviously hinders the understanding of ourselves . It acts as a screen through which we look at ourselves . And can we look at ourselves without beliefs ? If we remove these beliefs , the many beliefs that one has , is there anything left to look at ? If we have no beliefs with which the mind has identified itself , then the mind , without identification , is capable of looking at itself as it is and then , surely there is the beginning of the understanding of oneself . Jiddu Krishnamurti