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What you're seeing is the contrast.

People whose reality is so different to yours (and the reality of most of people that you respect) that it appears clearly wrong & invalid.

Don't mistake that as being proof of an objective reality though.

I know it's unsettling, but the existence of an objective reality is an illusion. It is Maya.

Everyone's reality is unique & is constantly shifting & changing. Most people allow their reality to bend to what they believe others perceive.

Think about it. Everything we know to be true has been perceived by our senses & then translated into this thing we call reality. We both share a superficial reality. We can interact peacefully & civally without getting emotional or resorting to violence. Our realities align but they are never exactly the same. We both hear, see & think differently when exposed to the same stimulus. We can reach a shared understanding in order to exchange value. These other people hold such a divergent reality that it is near impossible to exchange value with them. I find it difficult to even be in the presence. Their reality is incompatible with my reality. I don't try to shift their reality though, I usually just avoid interacting with them.

You believe in the idea of an objective reality.

I believe that reality is a divine play of illusion. That none of this is real. It took me many years to accept this & I'm not judging you for believing different.

Neither one of us can decisively prove that the other is wrong. It is a purely a matter of belief, whether you believe it or not.

its wild to me that the Indians were debating these things and arriving at these conclusions thousands of years ago with just the tools of reasoning and logic, and mediative insight

and here we are in our so-called advanced civilisation with all its so-called advanced paraphernalia slowly drawing similar conclusions

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Yes - so wild!

Native Americans, Hindus, Buddhists, Gnostics, Taoists, they all point to the same thing.

I'd wager that the Bible, Koran & Talmud all have similar wisdom encoded into their original texts & hidden in plain sight.

We were all just so caught up in the physicality & drama of it all that we couldn't see what was right there.

There are no coincidences.