I sort of woke with an idea for a poem/blog at 4 this morning….  I was reexamining the math and slope of rumor,  theory, supposition, opinion, fact, and truth, and then the higher unassailable, essential truths.   Things that are called facts if not supported by statistics, as well as testable suppositions and assumptions are not facts, but merely opinions…. some of those are not much more than rumors.  I heard from people, meaning I have no statistics, and it’s unverifiable.  I’ve heard that two out of three people believe this… did you ask three people, not much veracity, but if you sampled 50,000 people and 67% believe this, then two out of three is something to pay attention to… but this is not a truth, it is a fact about opinions, shaped by how the questions are asked and the assumptions represented.  Truth is something that can be proven (even if it’s difficult) to be true all the time, i.e. if A=B, and B=C, then A=C is a theory that can be analyzed and with some difficulty proven to be a truth that is immutable.  But essential truths are more valuable, for they are caused by the examination of our “essence” as in we are human, and thereby not infallible.  This cannot be proven except by a history of existence and examination of our souls, or for that matter our soles… you didn’t think this was going to be totally serious did you?