Every Perception is a Gamble

The actual quote is "All perception is gamble" Robert Anton Wilson was summerizing the work of phenomenologist Edmund Husserl.

I come back to this quote often. It says something about our ability to both construct our own reality and the responsibility we have to each other when creating that reality.

Every perception you accept as a truth becomes a brick in the foundation of your consciousness. Every time you agree to the color "Red" or the definition of "solitude" you are building the framework of your future perception. Literally creating the scaffolding of your understanding of reality.

Each time you are presented with new information it is those previous perceptions that you have gambled on that you base your judgement of these new facts, this new stimulus.

Thus every time you accept a truth you a paving the way for your next perception.

You also bear that cultural responsibility for validating a "truth". Sartre said every time you make a decision you must be making that decision as an example for what you think all people should do.

This is why I also am very fond of the expression "kill the Buddha." The Buddha said don't just accept my teachings as truth, dig in, chew them up, dissect them, rip my words to shreds. If you find them faulty come back and tell me how. Let's talk about it.

You have to decide for yourself what is truth. Read the masters. Study their lives and words. Absorb it all and come to your own conclusions. And compassion should be your guide.

As Regina Spektor once said:

No, this is how it works

You peer inside yourself

You take the things you like

And try to love the things you took

And then you take that love you made

And stick it into some

Someone else's heart

Pumping someone else's blood

And walking arm in arm

You hope it don't get harmed

But even if it does

You'll just do it all again

okay, end digressional coffee rant. Thank you.