Each of us sees things in ways unique to us. The way we see things is how they are to us, and they are not that way to other people. My guess is that the way we see things is as distinctive to us as our fingerprints. And, we are not in charge of the way we see things. The way we see things is in charge of us. We don't decide how to see things, we just see things how we see things. And then we get into arguments and shoot-outs over who is right about the way they see things. It's blatantly ridiculous. To my way of seeing. And we all huddle together in groups that see things in similar ways, but even in those groups we do not see things in identical ways. We may use the same words to talk about how we see things, yet, how do we know we all mean the same things by the words we use? I am no longer taking anything seriously about the way I see things, or about the way anybody else sees things. I'm just going to settle on asking questions about everything anybody, including myself, says they see. What makes it easy for you to see that way? How do you know it is so? What makes you think it is so? Why not see some other way instead? What is so holy about the way you see things? How many times have you been wrong about the way you see things? How many times have you changed the way you see things? Yet you are all overwrought and seething about the way you see things now? How do you know you won't see differently tomorrow? Etc. forever.
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