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Original Message There are THREE ways a human being can gain knowledge.

1) First hand experience / Direct experience.

An example, is being in a car accident. You have had a direct experience of the situation, and thus you have knowledge of what happened.


2) Second hand information / Information Handed Down

One example is someone who WITNESSED a car accident, giving a report to a police officer. The police officer now has second hand information....he has gained knowledge of the scenario, from an account of someone at the scene of the accident.

Another example, is if the police chief read the report , made by the police officer. The police chief is curious what happened, so he reads the report of the accident, made by the officer on the scene. The police chief now have knowledge of the accident, based on a written report.


3) Intuition.

The road you are driving on is slippery, and for some reason, you have a HORRIBLE gut feeling that something BAD is about to happen. You ignore the gut feeling, and as you put your blinker on to turn right, another car smashes into you.

Your intuition gave you "knowledge" that something bad was going to happen.

Another example: You are a history major, and based on studying the rise and collapse of many civilizations, 'something' tells you there is a pattern, and you see our current civilization on the verge of collapsing....although you haven't yet found the data to support your theory.

Your theory is based on a pattern, that subconsciously you have discovered....but you haven't pieced it together yet.





Now, I will re-iterate: There are THREE ways a human being gains knowledge on this planet.

1) Direct experience

2) Second hand sources

3) Intuition


Out of these 3 ways of gathering information, which is fail proof?


If you guessed NONE, you are correct.

There is NO way of gaining information on this planet, that has 100% integrity. All information can lose integrity.


An example of a first hand experience being compromised: You were involved in a car accident....but over the years, your vision is hazy. You have now told several 'varying' accounts of what exactly happened, and you don't know what to believe anymore.


An example of second hand source corruption. You are reading the bible, and believe it to be the INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD.....but you eventually realize that A) due to poor translation, and B) corrupted officials who have altered the text, the bible has lost its accuracy (JUST AN EXAMPLE GUYS)


An example of corrupted intuition, is your emotions or opinions getting in the way.







So, there are 3 ways to gain knowledge....now we come to the topic of Discernment.


What is discernment?

Discernment is the ability to weed out information from the 3 sources mentioned above, so as to get the most accurate picture of whatever it is you are trying to gain knowledge of.


Every single person on earth has different capacities for discerning information. Some people have AMAZING intuitive abilities, but their logic sucks......therefore, they can rely MORE on their intuition, but LESS on their own accounts of what they are seeing.


Other people have virtually no intuition at all, but they know how to study and reason greatly, therefore they learn a lot from direct experience, and from second hand accounts.




So, I wish you all at GLP the ability to

A) recognize the 3 ways which you gain information

AND

B) increase your capacities for discernment





Should you gain only ONE thing from this web-site.....let it be this.
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