Divisions in Reality

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Okay, full disclosure, this might
be triggering to some people. I'm going

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to try to keep this set as
apolitical as possible, but it is has

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to do with political views in some
respect. So bear with me, and

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please understand it's not my intent to
offend you or anyone that's listening in.

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We all have our own thoughts,
feelings, and emotions, and they're all

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one hundred percent perfectly valid. I
guess this is just me trying to figure

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things out, make sense, make
heads or tails of the division in our

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country in a way that points back
to our spirituality and who we are in

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the real sense of the word.
I was doing a meditation, as I

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often do, and I kept getting
these messages and I want to just throw

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them by you and see what your
thoughts are. We've been told many times

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that our reality is a vivid representation
of all that dwells overtly as well as

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dormantly within our consciousness. Now does
this mean that wherever you are on the

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political spectrum, whether you're on the
right or the left, are we more

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alike and we're just merely living in
our own version of reality where each one

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is right in our accusation of each
other. Could we each be reacting to

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each other from our own perspective of
our own reality, expecting others to understand

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what we're saying based on our reality, when really we should be understanding that

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they are listening to our words from
their own reality. Maybe they're hearing different

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words than we are saying, or
different emotional content that we're saying. Maybe

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we are speaking to each other in
completely different languages from an emotional spectrum point

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of view. If you're engaging somebody
from your own reality without taking into account

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that their reality is completely different than
yours, the perspective, the emotional content,

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the truth, the experiences that we're
each under going, perhaps might be

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completely different from each other. So
when you say to someone that's cross the

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aisle, I can't understand how you
could think that way or feel that way.

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It's so obvious, so it's this
way, when in their perspective they're

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saying the exact same thing to you. I can't believe you feel and think

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that way when it's so obvious that
it's this way. I wonder if maybe

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we should try to understand each other's
realities instead of assuming that we're living in

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the same ones we got to understand
that we're living in a five dimensional puzzle

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and we're preceding each other from our
own perspective instead of theirs. When they

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say put yourself in someone else's shoes, maybe goes a lot deeper than just

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what could their experience be, but
rather what could their reality be? I

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mean, there's got to be a
reason why they feel the way that they

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do. I don't believe that people
are intrinsically evil, are specifically thinking things

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because they well, that's not necessarily
true. There are some people that probably

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are very angry and for whatever reason, feel the need to take it out

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on others, which is unfortunate.
But well, I don't know. I

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know it's kind of out there a
little bit, but I just can't help

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but think that in my attempt to
try to make heads or tails of the

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division and the anger towards each other, when we really should be just loving

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each other. In light of all
that we've learned on our show up to

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now, when we talked about the
different paths and different realities and all that

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kind of stuff, how about engaging
with each other understanding that our reality is

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completely foreign to someone else, and
instead of damning them or hating them for

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not living in our reality. Understand
they're in a different reality, and instead

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try to come to terms with that. Talk to them about how is it

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that you are feeling that way?
Help me to understand without judgment, without

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preconceived notions, and then you don't
have to change your mind. But at

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least then you will understand where they're
coming from a little bit better, and

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that anger may not trigger you as
much. It may be more of Okay,

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Well, this is the reality that
they're in, and I support them

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in their thought process because that is
the reality that they're in. It's just

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not the same as mine. And
that's perfectly okay. In one way or

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the other. My reality will move
in the direction in which I believe it

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needs to, and their reality will
move in the direction that they believe it

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needs to, and they don't have
to be contradictory. We don't have to

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compete with each other because both realities
are valid. As we diverge and move

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into different directions, each reality will
breathe and live a life of its own.

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Or so that's what I think.
I'm curious to hear what your thoughts

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are. Is this just complete dobblygook? Or does it make sense to you

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send us a message. Go to
skeptic adposition dot com. You can leave

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us a voicemail or an email directly
there. I'd love to hear your thing,

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and if you do leave us a
voicemail, you might hear your voice

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on the show in some future episode. All Right, I guess that's enough

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rambling for now. Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next time on

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the skeptic Betiphysicians