Has there ever been an instance when another had some false data about you? Did it cause you trouble?

     This can give you some idea of the havoc false data can raise. You could also have some false data about another.

     Separating the false from the true brings about understanding.

     There is a lot of false data around. Evil-intentioned individuals manufacture it to serve their own purposes. Some of it comes from just plain ignorance of the facts. It can block the acceptance of true data.

     The main process of learning consists of inspecting the available data, selecting the true from the false, the important from the unimportant and arriving thereby at conclusions one makes and can apply. If one does this, one is well on the way to being competent.

     The test of any “truth“ is whether it is true for you. If, when one has gotten the body of data, cleared up any words in it that one does not fully understand and looked over the scene, it still doesn't seem true, then it isn't true so far as you are concerned. Reject it. And if you like, carry it further and conclude what the truth is for you. After all, you are the one who is going to have to use it or not use it, think with it or not think with it. If one blindly accepts “facts“ or “truths“ just because he is told he must, “facts“ and “truths“ which do not seem true to one, or even false, the end result can be an unhappy one. That is the alley to the trash bin of incompetence.

L. Ron Hubbard