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All of our categorizations and classifications of the world around us is based on our self interest, our need to survive. When we think of lions, we think of big claws, fangs, and an animal that eats us. We do not think of an animal with four legs that has approximately 14,642 hairs. We base our knowledge on our necessity to survive, on our instinctive need to stay alive and reproduce. Thus all knowledge we perceive is skewed to our perspective. Our perspective dominates our lives and we think it dominates the universe as well. But since our knowledge, everything we know and observe and have cared about from our beginnings as primates none of our thoughts and perceptions about the world are objective, they do not exist outside of out own narrow, little worlds, and thus we can never say we are saying the truth. Our truth is precisely that, only our own. Nobody but our own pathetic, insignificant society cares about what we think and how we think about them except us because nothing that we care about applies to anyone else. Everything is then not an objective truth, in the traditional sense of the world, but a lie. This view is in now way a moral judgment or perspective on the human condition, but it is a view in the extra-moral sense. In a sense that is higher than morality, above and beyond it, one that cannot be constrained by morality. In the sense that these lies are not "bad" and the search for the truth is not necessarily "good", but that is just the way it is, the truth is not necessarily so.
Babak
[undated]

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