{"id":609,"date":"2012-10-05T21:02:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T04:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/musingsfromtheskepticalleft\/?p=609"},"modified":"2012-11-30T02:52:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T10:52:22","slug":"your-perception-is-not-my-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/2012\/10\/05\/your-perception-is-not-my-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Perception Is Not My Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But why isn&#8217;t it? \u00a0Let&#8217;s examine the possible reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1. I could be wrong;<\/p>\n<p>2. You could be wrong;<\/p>\n<p>3. Both of us could be wrong;<\/p>\n<p>4. We could be misunderstanding each other; our mutual reality, as it were, could be lost in translation; or<\/p>\n<p>5. Reality is different for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>While #5 is either unlikely or irrelevant, #1-4 could be remedied through better communication, stronger arguments, greater empathy, and a desire to see things from someone else&#8217;s perspective. Reality is neither right nor wrong; it simply is, so it&#8217;s of greatest advantage for us, humble denizens of this planet that we are, to see it and understand it before making personal value judgments about it or about each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But why isn&#8217;t it? \u00a0Let&#8217;s examine the possible reasons: 1. I could be wrong; 2. You could be wrong; 3. Both of us could be wrong; 4. We could be misunderstanding each other; our mutual reality, as it were, could be lost in translation; or 5. Reality is different for everyone. While #5 is either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[210,73,209,208],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonsense","category-philosophy","tag-arguments","tag-empathy","tag-perception","tag-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}