Whereas in your case as a premie puffing it up a bit would fit the bill.

Yet I don't dispute your experiences, but you obviously feel the need to diss mine.

Re the assumption, assumptions are only false when they are made before an event and, not afterwards. Only after a few years of meditation did I come to this conclusion, but as a general rule it's been my experience.

Re faith, I thought this knowledge was supposed to be true to itself in itself without any faith, ie no baggage, certainly the way it worked for me. If you need faith to make it happen, well I go back to my crutches example yesterday.
My understanding was that it was the one thing that truly stood by itself.

Maybe you could do an online knowledge review here and sort out the error of my ways