There are many opposing opinions on every subject under heaven (even of heaven itself).

How does one decide which is real and how to build a life on it?

You may have heard as a child, the tale of the emperor and his beautiful, new clothes; Tailors from an enemy kingdom came to the emperor claiming to be defecting and as proof of their loyalty to him, they would make the greatest of all outfits of pure silk and gold embroidered with jewels and precious stones decorating them. The Emperor accepted their tribute and set them to work making the clothes. The tailors were given great wealth with which to work and were shut in and worked with the loom for months till they showed the Emperor the clothes.

He gazed up on an empty loom and listened to the tailors tell him how beautiful the clothes were. The tailors eventually convinced the emperor that the clothes were as beautiful as they had described. The emperor wore his new clothes as he paraded about the city on his birthday and the people all marvel at the Emperor declaring how beautiful the new clothes were… until one little child, not knowing any better, laughed at the naked man.

Then everyone laughed at the Emperor, whose beautiful clothes had only been imaginary all along. And everyone else had been playing along.

He was in reality in his birthday suit on his birthday march exposed to all his subjects.

Meanwhile the tailors were never seen again having returned again to their own country, with all the real wealth they had pretended to be making into clothes.

So it is with many opinions in this world.

Everyone finds it easier to say that each one is as good as the other, but this is not always so.

One thing to be sure to never measure truthfulness by is mass opinion. If it is popular, it is not guaranteed to be true… and nearly always garanteed not to be.

The entire kingdom can say to the emperor, “what beautiful clothes!” but the one who sees the truth will say, “my Lord, you’re clearly naked!” Many people may know the truth, but just because many people believe something does not prove it is true. Opinions can be wrong even widespread opinion. And everyone is entitled to their own opinion butt if you are stark naked and you think you’re wearing clothes, you don’t have anyone to blame but yourself if no one plays along when you walk about in the buff.

After all, opinions will never cover your butt. It takes solid facts for that.

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