Validity

Why is your opinion more valid?
Because of confidence?
Because of belief?

I used to say,
"I don't just believe;
I know,"
when it came to the "right-dividing"
of the Scripture,
which spanned all life
and time and circumstance.

The Lion King

Three friends
lying on their backs,
staring up at the night sky
filled with tiny, twinkling lights.

One friend, Pumbaa, asks,
"Timon, ever wonder
what those sparkly dots are
up there?"

Timon answers,
"Pumbaa, I don't wonder.
I know."

Pumbaa replies,
"Oh.
What are they?"

Timon answers,
"They're fireflies.
Fireflies that got stuck up in that
big bluish, black thing."

Pumbaa replies,
"Oh. Gee.
I always thought they were
balls of gas
burning billions of miles away."

"Simba, what do you think?"

Simba is hesitant,
timid to reply.
But with some cajoling
he gets it out.

"Somebody once told me that
the great kings of the past
are up there,
watching over us."

Timon and Pumbaa ponder
for a moment.
And then burst into
laughter
at the thought of
dead royals watching over them.

Unknown to Pumbaa and Timon,
Simba is a royal.
A runaway, hiding in exile.
His father had been a great king
who was murdered when Simba,
now a young adult,
was a cub.

Whose opinion is more valid?
Mine? Yours?
His? Hers?