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Originally Posted by Paul11
I think it's impossible to know the truth. But of course, this is very philisophical. We know when there is a pebble in our sho, then we see it, move it and feel relieved. But what was the pebble? And can you snatch it from my hand, grasshopper?
When it comes to understanding a whole country or culture, all we have is our experience, study and extrapolation. All that is clouded by opinion. That's why we're all arguing on this forun all the time. Some of us witness the same stuff and come to very different conclusions. I'm sure if I asked my wife about some of our conclusions she would laugh histerically. Then stick her finger in my eye. But was that a finger, or a candy bar? Crispetty, crunchetty Butterfinger.
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Yup. Life isn't simple.
We live life looking at others, relying on the assumption that they are looking at life in the same way.
Similar to how I can talk about what a person can think, when, in reality, the only thoughts that I have ever used were my own.
I can explain what another person sees, smells, hears, feels, or tastes... When all I am using is the knowledge given to me by experience of my own senses.
We are only limited to the world as we see it.
... And all we can do is do our best.
*snatches pebble*