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How We See the World

Imagine we could compare ourselves to a digital camera: the eyes are the lenses (we choose what to focus on), our beliefs are the filters (we choose what, and how information passes through), our mind is the image sensor (information gathering; how things appear to be), and our intellect (education, knowledge, level of understanding; preconception, indoctrination, interpretation, imagination) is a translator, or encoder/decoder.

Vulnerability

Vulnerability is a tricky thing.

We live in a society with many ambiguous ideas about what strength, power, and courage are. We live in a society that thrives (or, more accurately, subsists) on basic function, emotional bargaining, manipulation, and underdevelopment.