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The truth
People argue much about the truth. Everyone thinks that his opinion is the only right one.
Take any situation where more than one person took part and you will hear as many opinions as were the number of participants.
It's very strange, isn't it, when we have many points of view for the same event? It's strange when people saw the same, but tell different.
The reason is our world views. That's hard decoding system for every event creating personal image. This system consists of a sort of filters made by our personal experience, culture, accidents, impressions, physical and psychological qualities. That's why looking at the same we see different.
Than what is the truth? Who is more right?
To take a good answer, let's use some allegory. Imagine that the objective world is a, for example, cow. And people cannot see the whole cow because of the screen between people and the cow. But screen is not solid, it has small holes through which people can see the parts of the cow. Holes are personal, everyone can use only his hole. And they are looking at the cow through their personal holes.
What are they looking at? At the same -the cow. And what do they see? Different. Ask them:"what is the word (truth)?" And you will hear:
- the world is an eye
- No! You are not right! The world is a leg
- Are you crasy both?! The world is an ass!
They will start to argue. Then will start a wars for the truth. People will be killing others, being sure that their version is the truth.
But if people would stop fighting and try to here each other they could understand other point of view. They could sum every part of that pazzle to a whole objective image. Then they would understand that the world is not an eye or a leg. They would realize that the world is a cow. They would know the truth.
And what do we need for that? Not much. We should learn to hear others. We should appreciate other point of view, other experience.
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