Friday, February 22, 2008

Interpret my perception? Perceive my Interpretation?

You get what I’m saying?... I don’t. Do you?

Have you ever perceived a situation or entity to being something it’s not or see something that is not there or a different translation? I have, everybody does. Example: John will say Banana, you may say fruit, I’ll say delicious, Hank will say a pleasant source of potassium, and DOLE will say cha-ching! Mmm. We now live in a society where words are now interpreted by the ears that hear them, rather than the words that define them. What’s even more interesting is that sentences, paragraphs, and even stories are the same way. Ever stop to think that two people reading the same book, heard two different stories? Remember 5th grade when y’all had to talk about a book that everyone read. Thirty 5th grade imaginations trying to decipher a book, I wonder what the teachers thought?

Fiction is always left to interpretation. Truth however cannot be perceived without some sort of Fiction being the result.

So what happens when someones perception of the truth creates a fiction? Could be better or worse than the actual fact. It doesn’t seem that important but lives are changed because of this! Go back to a crossroad in your life where you had to make a decision based on information put in front of you. Were you right? Did you see it for what it was or for what it appeared through your "own" eyes to be?

Event: a murder
Fact A: X stabbed Y with a knife.
Fact B: Y died of blood-loss.

2 statements, both facts. Equally gruesome, I apologize for that. Where am I going with this? What if you were only presented with one fact or the other? When presented with Fact A, one might ask if Y is ohk or did this poor letter die. Now Fact B, on the other hand says that Y died of blood-loss. One might ask how did Y lose blood, Did "X" or "Z" kill Y. Get where I’m going now? Look down, XYZ

Whether that helped or not it is important to remember to let certain things be left to interpretation, like stories and my occasional rants. But truth...it is what it is.

Truth is real, it is weighted by Facts. Perception is....well, I’ll leave that up into your interpretation.

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