David Manifesto

David Manifesto

What is the best way to determine truth?  Is there a best way? Truth to me is not the same as truth to you. Look at gun control; one will say we need more guns to keep us safe. Others will say we need fewer guns to keep us safe. Both sides it is truth to them. This is why truth is perception of person idea of the truth. The only truth that we can all agree on is that we are born and then we die. For me truth is about what I believe and how I have been program by my genes and life to believe.  The best way to determine truth is this, truth is something a person  can touch, experience, feel, see or relate to. Determine truth is all relative to your programming.

            Programming is huge part of what we know about the truth and what is real. Real is a word that means so much and nothing at all. The dictionary, says real means “being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verifiable existence”.  This baffles me, because I think it is  hard to say what is truly real.  Is writing this paper, drinking my coffee, having the dog next to me or is a kiss real? To me yes it is. Can I truly verify they are real? No, because I could be living in a dream world or in the movie the Matrix.  If I am living in either one of those, nothing is real. On the other hand, is it real?  In my idea of what, real it would be even if I were living in the dream or the movie the Matrix. That all I would know so it would be real to me another example is schizophrenia, hear voices in their head. To them it is a reoccurring fact that they hear voices. To us we say the voices are not coming from real people, but to that person who has schizophrenia it is fact and real to them. The voices are as real as this paper to them. Schizophrenia can be compared to the evil spirit that control their understanding and determines what is real for them.  Real is only related to our reality. It is what we are programmed to believe is real. To me what is real is what I think is real. If I can touch it, taste it, see it, feel it or understand it then it  is real in my realm of reality is the only  way I know what is real.

            Reality is a funny thing, because everyone’s reality is different between existence and identity. The dictionary say this about existence “ the fact or stat of existing being” and says this about identity The collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is definitively recognizable” . Existence every thing exist. A plant has existence. The plant itself existence, but has no self-perception to our knowledge. A person in a coma has existence, but no self-perception of theirself to our knowledge. I would have to say existence is being alive in one way or the other. People have many identities they have  work, home, family, school, mother , father and ect.  Their self-identities are different, then those other identities. The self is collection of them all and who you are when you are alone. Those other ones are real, but fake because we project those identities in to world so we can have some type a peace. Those are part of our identities and they are the ones that people judges us by. They are not our true identities. Our identities are how we see ourself. When we content all piece to the puzzle that makes the one person.  That one person only is seen by that single person, no one else see the whole only the peace that make us up. Existence is just being there and identity is how we see our selves and other see us.  But you need existence to have identity, and you identity can live after your death. One is just life there with no self the other is the perception and reality of our selves to other and to ourselves.

            As we think of self we think is our life choice or predetermine. Well I would love to think we have choice in life, but I think our choice is predetermine. If we look at the University of Minnesota studies on twins separated at birth. The twins were reunited. They did not one another while growing up some come from same backgrounds, and others from different environments all together. They all had comparable traits and made comparable decisions. The studies might be anecdote but it does support the idea of life being out of our control. It is backing up that everything we do is predetermined. I do believe that life and the way we will do things is set us for us by our programming.

Programming also has to do with right or wrong, and the best way to distinguish this is find out what they would do with Gyges ring if they had it. Than talk about why they chose to do what they chose to do. Than we talk about why is it  right to them.  Then we talk about what is right for others. Is having a lot sex partner’s right? Is being gay, right? Is killing, right? If it is right, why? Then if it is wrong, why?  Some people will say yes they are all right other would agree with some are right some would say they are all wrong. I think right from wrong is determine by the way people were programming by genetics and environment. When you ask some why is gay, wrong most come up with because the Bible says so. Then you get into why is  the Bible and if it is do you follow all the laws in the Biblie. If they say yes, they do. I would go through the rules of Bible and see if they truly follow the Bible rules. I would bet 99% do not follow the rules of the Bible. Then I would ask if you only follow what you want to follow instead of the whole book. Then you are cherry picking the right and wrong. Why did you choose those rules instead of the others? This is what I would ask and how I would talk about what right and wrong. There laws made by the people that I disagree with that I try to follow, but right and wrong to me is how I feel about it I live by the gut.

 I believe that our life is determine by our programming and everything we believe, true or not is because of our programming. We all live in a cave even if we do not think so. We all live by our perceptions and reality. Ourselves is how we identity and find ourselves. Also, help us justify our existence in this world. That also, leads to what is real. Real is only the idea we have in our heads. We think we find proof that what we believe is true, but it only is because it is what we want to believe in our life. It is our fabricated of reality and mutually perceived realities and our reality is lies that is our truth to us.