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Believe

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Updated: Jan 10, 2019




So check this out, there is a lie in what you believe. Do you know what it is? beLIEve. Actually, there are probably many. But first what does it mean to actually believe something? I'm not going to take the time to share the definition. You got it. You know what beLIEve means. But do you follow that? Do you follow all of what you beLIEve, all of what you think you are sure of? There may be a handful of ideas and concepts you truly follow through with, you act upon, but I guarantee you, when you take the time to be honest with yourself, you've been telling yourself many, many lies. Because when you don't actually follow what you claim to believe, it is NOT your belief. It something to gain attention and make yourself feel good. Stop it!


Take the LIE out, and what is left? beve. See for yourself: beLIEve


 


beve (Dutch)

Pronunciation

Verb

beve

  1. Verb form of beven


 

beve (Italian)

Pronunciation

béve, /ˈbeve/, /"beve/

Verb form

beve

  1. third-person singular indicative present of bere


 

So, what does beven and bere mean, exactly? Well, beven is a Dutch verb that means to shake, to shiver, to tremble. And bere is an Italian verb that means to drink. This word is pretty interesting, actually.

Some of the origin & history of bere:


From Old English -bere (n) is bere (uncountable)

From Latin- bibere, present active infinitive of bibō,, from Proto-Indo-European *peh -is also the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Italian- to drink

Latin (adj) is Inflection of bērus (vocative masculine singular)/ alternative form of verus-Adjective

From Old Dutch *bero, from Proto-Germanic *bero

From Old English- bera- bear


Origin & history I

From Middle English bere, from Old English bera, from Proto-Germanic *berô (compare West Frisian bear, Dutch beer, German Bär, Danish bjørn). bear - etymology notesThis is generally taken to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ("shining, brown") (compare Tocharian A parno, B perne ("radiant, luminous"), Lithuanian bė́ras ("brown")), related to brown and beaver. Germanic replaced the older name of the bear, *rtko- with the epithet "brown one", presumably due to taboo avoidance; compare Russian медведь("bear"), literally “honey-eater”. However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggesting that a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- ("wild animal") "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ results in Germanic *b regularly, e.g. in *bidjanan)

Noun

bear (pl. bears)

  1. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae, particularly of subfamily Ursinae (subfamily).

  2. figuratively - a rough, unmannerly, uncouth person (1579)

  3. finance - An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. (1744)

  4. slang US - a state policeman; short for smokey bear (1970s)

    • 1976 "‘The bear's pulling somebody off there at 74,’ reported someone else." (CB Magazine, Communications Publication Corporation, Oklahoma City, June 40/3)

  5. slang -  a large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.(1990)

    • 1990 "Bears, gay men subculture materials" (publication title, Human Sexuality Collection, Collection Level Periodical Record)

    • 2004, Richard Goldstein, Why I'm Not a Bear (in The Advocate, number 913, 27 April 2004, page 72) I have everything it takes to be a bear: broad shoulders, full beard, semibald pate, and lots of body hair. But I don't want to be a fetish.

    • 2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human sexuality There are numerous social organizations for bears in most parts of the United States. Lesbians don't have such prominent sexual subcultures as gay men, although, as just mentioned, some lesbians are into BDSM practices.bear


 

If you've paid any attention to your own thoughts and are honest with yourself, you can say you don't actually believe the things you say, at least not all of them, and probably most of them. So, what is it that we are actually saying when we say we believe something? We drink lies. We bear lies. We lie within the drink. The lie is not sophisticated (uncouth) enough. We carry a lie. We are investors of lies. I'm stopping with bear, but I could keep going since this trail forks into beer and barley territory, as well.


So once the lie is shaken, what's left is the inflection, the beve...truth is in the sound when all the words, or magic, have lost their potency. And if you don't believe in magic, you are still asleep under the spelling of the cursed spelling words, my friend.


Truth, the sound, the inflection, was there even when we're caught up in the seductive magic of the word. The word 'lie' is said when we believe, hiding in plain sight. Our eyes have been tricked into looking for a sign- the sign of our belief. We wait and wait for a visual confirmation. We are blind if we cannot plainly SEE the fact that lie is rooted within 'believe'. Sound was there all along to confirm the truth, since it is the sound which strongly encourages that inner knowing. I can say, "I love you," but it isn't the words that make you know this, it is in fact the inflection.


It's better to trust the ears and the way your gut and heart perceive the sound rather than the words being spoken...words are everywhere on the constant- constantly scattering us and separating us from that which we already know.






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