A belief that can be demonstrated and tested, because it is inherently an objective phenomenon is better known as a hypothesis. A belief which has your confide

A belief that can be demonstrated and tested, because it is inherently an objective phenomenon is better known as a hypothesis. A belief which has your confidence because of subjective experience that cannot be shared (i.e. if you tried to, everyone would think you were crazy) can be rationally held, though it would be irrational to think you could successfully spread this belief. A belief which you are terrified of testing against the crucible of reality by making excuses for why there is no evidence (e.g. epiphenomenal dualism, wherein the material plane is observed by the metaphysical plane, but the metaphysical plane never acts at all with the physical plane, and the metaphysical plane not existing would look exactly the same as the metaphysical plane existing) is by definition, fucking nuts. When you are making excuses for a belief about why it should be immune to testing, you are in a very, very deep error state.