What Is Believed In requires neither the belief nor the believer in order to exist. WIBI gives the believers their belief. Their little heads make do with what they can. They see what they are capable of seeing, a service provided by WIBI. Without the belief system schema (frame), no seeing would exist.
The downside of a belief system is intolerance. Only MY spectacles are essential for bringing the world, the cosmos, into focus. YOUR spectacles are worthless. I have a fervent belief in the spectacles I wear.
What Is Believed In cannot be seen by a person with a belief system. The best that can be done is for me to adopt the most expansive, most inclusive belief system I can manage. (Throwing away my spectacles of belief is also possible, though rare. Those who claim to do so are less trustworthy than those who do so and keep silent.)
What Is Believed In requires neither the belief nor the believer in order to exist.
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