Sunday, June 8, 2008

Having "CREDENTIAL"?

Truth is not established by credentials!


It appears to me that the people most interested in credentials are those who have them and nothing else --- they have no innovative ideas, they have no new information to impart, they have nothing of practical value, but they do have their certificates.

The "experts" all-time favourite smoke screen, the issue of credentials, should not even be the issue. The real issue is truth. HAVING "CREDENTIALS" DOES NOT MAKE THE TRUTH MORE THE TRUTH, AND NOT HAVING "CREDENTIALS" DOES NOT MAKE THE TRUTH LESS THE TRUTH.
The truth is the truth no matter who utters it. If a man who never went beyond the fourth grade/primary four level tells you that gravity will destroy your body if you jump from the top of 30 stories building, will you jump anyway because he has no Ph.D in physics? Would someone with a Master degree in physics but no belief in gravity be spared?

What exactly does it mean to be "accredited"?
Dr.John Bear's book Bear's Guide to Non-Traditional College Degrees is considered the standard text in searching out alternative education.

On the relation between accreditation and nontraditional approaches, he said,"One of the frequent complaint leveled against the recognized accrediting agencies is that they have, in general, been slow to acknowledge the major trend to alternative or nontraditional education." No kidding!

Detractors can attempt to divert attention away from the true issues by denigrating our credentials all they want. It will do nothing to deter people from seeking out and utilizing valuable, pertinent information on a subject far too important to be monopolized by the select few who have declared themselves exclusively qualified to impart real information by virtue of their self-proclaimed "superior" credentials.

What are the credentials that really count? A piece of paper on the wall? Or the results in people's lives? The success of The Truth Applied in improving the lives of hundreds of thousands going to millions of people is a matter of record. Those living testimonies are our real credentials --- positive results in people's lives. They are the only credentials to which we will ever aspire.
We could not care less that we are not accepted by today's "authorities." We simply do our work and let our results speak for themselves. Be a man interested in truth, not accolades.

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