A Convenient Lie

Before I begin this blog, I just want to say that this will seem very random, but it is just a string of thoughts I have concerning different subjects that I think about a lot.  So we begin.

My first question is this: can we ever truly know anything?  I say no.  Obviously, it depends how you define know, but I think that knowing something means that there will NEVER EVER be an exception to it.  People use the example of gravity, but how can we know that what we perceive as gravity is right?  Perhaps the falling of a pen is something else altogether.  Perhaps gravity is some god’s whim, and one day, he will mess with it.  The point is that we can’t ever know, because knowledge is based on perception and thought.

Perception is different for everyone.  (Of course, careful readers will ask: how do you KNOW this?  The answer is this: I don’t.  I believe strongly in it.  Actually, not even that strongly.  Moderately, I’d say).  What I believe is that colors, shapes, sizes, people, and most of all, ideas, they’re different for everyone.  Everything we see is based on several things:

1. Our environment.  No one has exactly the same life.  If you know of the butterfly effect, you’ll know (believe) that that statement is true.  Every little action affects the next part of our life.
2.  A genetic code we have.  Certain people with similar interests, they have similar perceptions.
3. Some other intangible thing.  I believe it’s there, because I believe that our environment and our genes do not solely define our perception. Perhaps our soul?

Of course, these are all words.

I got to wrap it up.  I have a test tomorrow.

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