Reality is like a kaleidoscope. A hundred different views from every little change of the angle you view it from. Except in reality’s case, that angle happens to be the truth. What you know or what you don’t know, doesn’t matter. Hell, known facts are rendered useless in the face of people who just don’t want to believe them. That’s why the view of reality changes with the way we understand, believe, or interpret knowledge and information of various types.
That way of understanding becomes our way of knowing the truth, and since there are many different ways to understand a concept, there are many different versions of the truth, leading to many different views of reality. Among these those views that are the most common or have occurred to a majority of people, are termed as versions of reality. Among these versions, usually the most popular version is taken into account. While the others are not entirely discarded, they are followed by a substantially low number of people, who each have a similar way of reaching similar truths, leading to similar realities.
This way we can say that it all comes down to the way we reach the truth, instead of the truth itself, because if the way is similar than the truth will automatically be similar too. Sure there may be some differences but the overall result will be the same, people reaching a somewhat similar view of their own realities, making it a version that may or may not be widely accepted, depending upon the number of people that view, understand, live, or relate to it. From this we can say that each version is a view of reality but not each view is a version of reality.
Those views which are understood by only a few people can be considered minor versions, while those that are widely accepted are major versions. Most people who believe in minor versions of reality are generally considered wrong or weird and are somewhat like outcasts from general society. However, they are not in fact wrong or weird but just have a different view of reality than the major populous. Both these people and the general population are correct in their own truths and views of reality. No view or version of reality can be completely negated.
This is hard to grasp or explain as to do that one would have to take his eye away from the kaleidoscope of reality and view it from the front. But, even then it wouldn’t be enough. To fully grasp it, one would need to view all sides and angles at once, which as we know is not possible, at least not in a physical sense. It is however possible if it is considered as a theory and analysed in our mind, where the physical rules don’t really apply. Even that is hard though, since our mind is built around the information we gathered from the physical realm and how we processed it.
This is also the reason for most disagreements and fights, both of a small scale like a fight between two students, a medium scale like a food fight, to a large scale like a war between nations, states, etc. So now we come full circle, that in the end the information we gathered and our way of processing it determines everything. In the end each of us trusts our own process and may very well differ from other processes, no matter how small the difference may be. Now, I am not saying that it is impossible for two people to have the same process.
All I can say is that I myself am exploring but for now as per my findings on it, I can say that it is near impossible for two people to have the exact same process of understanding. After all, for all I know most of the people reading this may disagree with all or most of it and I may be proven to have a weird or unique way of understanding which may lead to me believing in a minor version of reality. Other examples of people who believe in minor versions of reality would include alien conspirists, illuminati believers, cults, certain politicians, flat earthers, etc.
And no, I am not talking about people who just do these things for fun or pretend to believe. I am talking about the people who truly believe and their truth is just not shared by the majority. People with major versions of reality would include the general populous, business minded people, etc. Each version of reality is a truth in itself and each of us has the right to have our own version, be it a minor or major one.
By: Dhruvaditya Tiwari
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