"Each friend represents a world..."

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"Each friend represents a world..."

ER — 4/20/2013 6:15:58 PM (archived)

Each of us is a library, filled with msny books, some the same, some different.

This is the point I've been trying to make with my posts on subjective universes and personal realities. Each of us sees the world differently, and each of us further interprets and prioritizes what he sees according to his own prejuduces and misconceptions.

We all live in different universes, we all see the same reality differently, and we all see it from different places and times and compare it to differnt experiences and histories.

As someone who fancies himself a scientist, this is so obvious and self-evident to me that I really have difficulty understanding those who reflexively deny it. To think that only our picture of reality is correct and everyone else's must therefore be mistaken strikes me as the height of arrogance and closed-mindedness.

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Right wing terrorism in the USA - ER - 4/20/2013 4:44:29 PM
- Re: Right wing terrorism in the USA - Jody - 4/20/2013 5:02:26 PM
  - "Everyone has an agenda." - ER - 4/20/2013 5:13:33 PM
    - Re: "Everyone has an agenda." - Jody - 4/20/2013 5:25:08 PM
      - Did you know Anais Nin was part Cuban? - ER - 4/20/2013 5:31:53 PM
        
        Re: Did you know Anais Nin was part Cuban? - Jody - 4/20/2013 5:40:35 PM
        
        "Each friend represents a world..." - ER - 4/20/2013 6:15:58 PM
        
        Reality - TB - 4/21/2013 2:33:33 AM
        
        Our brains are not designed to figure out how the world works. - ER - 4/21/2013 4:48:09 AM
        
        Re: Our brains are not designed to figure out how the world works. - Jody - 4/21/2013 9:01:42 PM
        
        We have 4 tools to help us understand the world. - ER - 4/21/2013 9:53:59 PM
        
        Re: We have 4 tools to help us understand the world. - Jody - 4/21/2013 10:18:57 PM
        
        "Our brains are not designed to figure out how the world works." - TB - 4/21/2013 7:46:01 PM
        
        It certainl does. - ER - 4/21/2013 8:50:56 PM
        
        Re: "Each friend represents a world..." - Jody - 4/20/2013 6:39:33 PM
        
        TB knew Anais in a previous life too. - ER - 4/20/2013 6:49:26 PM
        
        No bankers in my bloodline. - TB - 4/21/2013 2:34:54 AM
        
        We're not talking bloodlines. - ER - 4/21/2013 4:33:22 AM
        
        I think she and I were lovers in a previous life... - ER - 4/20/2013 5:56:15 PM
        
        Re: I think she and I were lovers in a previous life... - Jody - 4/20/2013 6:36:32 PM
        
        Try me. - ER - 4/20/2013 7:19:57 PM
        
        Re: Try me. - Jody - 4/20/2013 9:19:08 PM
        
        Wait, wait...don't tell me... - ER - 4/20/2013 9:34:19 PM
        
        Re: Wait, wait...don't tell me... - Jody - 4/20/2013 10:05:56 PM
        
        Is it this guy? - podrock - 4/20/2013 10:00:11 PM
        
        Re: Is it this guy? - Jody - 4/20/2013 10:05:06 PM
        
        Re: Is it this guy? - Jody - 4/20/2013 10:06:39 PM
        
        Is this what is meant by the 'Jody-o-Christian tradition'? n/t - ER - 4/21/2013 1:26:31 AM
        
        Re: Is this what is meant by the 'Jody-o-Christian tradition'? n/t - Jody - 4/21/2013 2:35:35 AM
        
        I wouldn't worry about it. - ER - 4/21/2013 4:35:14 AM

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