I'm Not a Believer

Many cults and religions put heavy emphasis on "belief" or "faith" which is really the same thing. There are secular formulations of that concept too. "Believe in" this or that political party or candidate.

I strive to get my mental model of reality to line up with the natural order of things as much as possible. Since our verbal and symbolic consciousness exists in another dimension (the information dimension), "we", that is our verbal and symbolic conscious doesn't really have access to the natural order of things, especially in verbal and symbolic terms. Therefore, it's not an easy task to come up with a high fidelity model of reality.

Beliefs are worthless and it's generally a bad sign when someone sells a concept or cajoles people into "believing" in products, people, or plans. The Titanic for example was deemed "unsinkable" by White Star Line company. It was sinkable. It didn't matter if you believed it could sink or not.