The only things I absolutely BELIEVE, Bill are things like...that I'm touching this keyboard I'm typing on and that I exist. Stuff like that.

I think it's very probable that people have souls that survive death...so I may tend to believe in it...but I don't KNOW it. You give me the impression that you KNOW people don't have souls, you KNOW there are no sasquatches, you KNOW there is no God, and you don't know any of those things. You merely suppose so, because it pleases you to see it that way. The stuff you KNOW is very similar to the stuff I and everybody else knows...meaning, that which we can experience directly and with no remaining doubt whatsoever.

Is belief knowledge? I think so. The rest is opinion and supposition, based on partial knowledge or an emotional predisposition of some kind. People tend to believe what they want to believe, but they only KNOW what they KNOW, and it's pretty much the same as what most other people know.

The only reason we frequently disagree about various esoteric stuff is that our emotional suppositions about it are different, and I know that. Do you?