Break the Walls, my Brothers

[Obbe]

We all have our ideals.

Some of us think the world would be better off if everyone thought "this" was The Truth. Some among us think "that" would be a better The Truth.

Whatever we think, the ideal world usually involves not being told our conception of The Truth is wrong all the time. Most people enjoy believing that their own beliefs are The Truth on some sort of objectivity scale, and get annoyed when someone from the outside suggests otherwise. Assuming most people are like that, its not hard to understand why people are the way they are, shouting The Truth at each other with a megaphone in one hand and a gun in the other.

We are focusing way to much on our differences and not on our similarities:

Person A might believe God will reward them if they live a certain way, Person B might believe in a non-anthropomorphic conception of God, Person C might believe in twenty Gods and Person D might think all of the above are silly twits.

However, they all don't know the same things. While they might have thought up some pretty good answers, and might think their answers are the ones which create the ideal world, they just don't know. In this way they are similar.

And it is because of that very reason that they should put down the gun, stop shouting, and just listen to what everyone else is saying for a couple minutes. Consider it. And then get on with life and trying to achieve that ideal world in a way that doesn't make it a hell first.

We would be much better off without the walls to be able to share ourselves with each other out in the real world, then to be walled up and concerned with only our own thoughts in our own artificial little worlds.