Short Stories

To begin I will discuss the entity of humanity. Humans, like anything else, is only one of countless things in existence. We differ from the Earthly organisms with our great ability to perceive. Our perception is what permits us the throne of dominance on this planet. Regardless, it is still perception no matter how much more skillful it is. There are many ways to perceive reality, but there is only one reality and never one perception of it. Contributing to this delusion is the dynamic nature of reality and perception as they both are not static. Thus humanity is isolated from true reality without omniscience, which is impossible to obtain. We have synthesized methods such as science and religion in attempt to break the barrier of perception into reality. But we must remember these are pitiful attempts. These methods were conjured up by humanities polluted perception itself. The only way in which reality may be grasped is to know everything there is to know, and to perfectly aggregate this knowledge into perfect unity, while being able to perfectly decipher and understand this united entity. The word everything is equivalent to infinite. Anything compared to infinity is negligibly minute and may be considered as nothing. Thus humanity does not know anything required grasp reality. Similarly Descartes claims that perception is unreliable for acquiring knowledge so he states that the only way of acquiring knowledge is through deduction from thoughts. Since thought is based on knowledge derived from our perception it is therefor void all the same. There is no such thing as false knowledge, it is not knowledge if it is false and thus we know nothing in this manner also.

Everything relates to everything else. So you must know everything in order to break the barrier. For example, suppose a student offers his teacher an apple. You may state that reality is that he handed the apple to his teacher. You are only deluding yourself when you believe this. The offer could reflect the student’s benevolence, it could be a form of bribing or even a sign of intimacy. Unless you know everything, you are ignorant of the situation and so you are ignorant of true reality. It is perception which renders the student’s motives irrelevant, while reality takes everything into account.

Humanity lives within its own perception. We perceive the world, and manipulate in accord with our perception, then we perceive what we’ve manipulated and the cycle is reset. We exist within reality, but we only interact within our perception, which is within reality. We have a sense of understanding, but we understand nothing. It is from our perception which our ability to reflect on our existence springs forth. We contemplate our existence and search for a purpose. Again differing from Earthly organisms with our superior cognition. We must remember that superior cognition is nothing more than superior cognition. Our longing for a purpose does not make that purpose exist. The way we are chemically constituted is not any more purposive than the way anything else is. Religion is a search for meaning. Religion gives us a sense of pride, strength and comfort. It irrationally refutes any scientific evidence, which states otherwise. Discomfort arises when evolution claims humans underwent the same evolutionary processes as the other Earthly organisms, instead of being created by an omnipotent God, which gives us our purpose in life and an afterlife to look forward to. The only sources of any knowledge of god are religious texts, and humanity created these texts. This means prior to the existence of the books god must have been perceived. Perception is delusional, particularly the methods used to interpret God. There is no rational logic behind the miracles which claims God to exist. Any child can conceive fairy tales to explain his world nicely to him. There is less reason to believe there is a god, than to believe abiogenesis and evolution. Science is a more credible method of perception, since its foundations are apriori and aposteriori knowledge, while theistic religions lack both empirical and logical support.

Everything you’ve ever known, and ever will know is only perception. But since we are isolated from reality, reality does not affect our livelihood under any circumstances. Everything is inconsequential in reality but there is a sense of meaning for us within our inescapable perception. In a sense we are living in the Matrix.