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paper_turtle
- So Many Worlds of Pretense
In response to
So Many Worlds of Pretense posted by
pink101:
We ALL have prejudices, blind spots, and illusions. We all perceive some things as real which others might perceive as illusions. The person who claims to see all things with total objectivity is fooling him-/herself.
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Many of the things we value most highly are intamgibles--truth, justice, peace, freedom. We cannot prove them. We cannot even adequately define them, and yet they form the basis for our dreams and aspirations.
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With all due respect, I wonder just how much good it does to place so much focus on what others are doing wrong, instead of thinking about what we might do to make things better. As long as most of our energy is directed to talking about what is wrong, we have little energy left over to talk about what might be, and how we might help the process along.
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If we did not have the imagination to create Santa and the Easter Bunny, we would not have the imagination to draft a constitution, or build a rocket to travel to the moon, or even communicate here on the 'net. Martin Luther King would not have had his dream. Imagination is not the problem; humankind's ego is--the source of envy, hatred, fear, and oppression.
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peace and love,
Paper Turtle
