Person G’s perspective says it’s a square.

Person R’s perspective says it’s a circle.

Person B’s perspective says it’s a triangle.

It’s possible for everyone to be right and everyone be wrong.

Not only is it possible, it’s the most likely and reasonable situation.

The only way to find out is to do the work of taking the perspectives of others into account and that’s where many people fall short.

You want to know how I know most people fall short on that?

Because every religion teaches that lesson. It’s the essence of the Golden Rule.

If we were all practicing the Golden Rule, every religion wouldn’t be trying to teach us that. It would be redundant.

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I like you.

You help me feel less insane.

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Had some stuff to knock out. Friend was passing through town.

Stopped and had dinner.

That’s the Piazza Imo in the Italian district of St Louis.

I like you too. :)

This is why the Eleusinian mystery initiates were initiated in “classes”.

If you’re tripping on LSD by yourself, you might wonder if your brain is broken or something but if everyone around you is tripping and seeing the same things, well then maybe you’re not tripping and maybe this special drink contains something that expands the range of visible reality for us.

That mutual validation is very helpful for counterculture types like Bitcoiners or the “spiritual” or “woo woo” types who know they’re on to something even if that something isn’t exactly mainstream.