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yjk
2011-11-01 16:35:40 UTC
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“We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.”
Joe Bruno
2011-11-01 16:40:10 UTC
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<?>---said;
“We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.”
Some don't see them at all.Do you know what "solipsism" means?
yjk
2011-11-01 17:06:26 UTC
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<?>---said;
“We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.”
Some don't see them at all.Do you know what "solipsism" means?
solipsism
sol·ip·sism [sólləp sìzzəm, sáwl sìzzəm]
n
belief in self as only reality: the belief that the only thing
somebody can be sure of is that he or she exists, and that true
knowledge of anything else is impossible

Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft
Corporation. All rights reserved.

Hm~ A person with one book.
Truthslave
2011-11-03 00:09:16 UTC
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Post by yjk
<?>---said;
“We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.”
Or put another way, we can't know for sure, what we are not.

All we can do is speculate on the other, projecting on the
other, our ignorance. Unless they say, we can't ever know.
And even then, we only have their words or their deeds for
who they claim to be.

We see as we are, the world a mirror for our control. The
world like the viewer, is open yet insincere, as shallow
as we are perplexing. Clingy for the certainty of others,
we crave what they have, a belief.

We can only really know ourselves, and even then we are a
mystery.

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