Wgi-US: Absolute Truth In The World

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Hi mitra,
It is logical and commonsense that everything we encounter outside of us has absolute truth in the world. However, this is not true. Everything is subjective based on your personal experience of it. In fact, you will need to be putting everything that’s written here through your filters. Don’t just believe what I say . . . run it through your filters.
The first point of contact we have with the real world outside ourselves is our sensory system. Until we hear, see, touch, taste or smell something, we have no knowledge of it. For example, you are reading this challenge today. Someone who hasn’t yet heard of these challenges cannot experience what you are because their senses have yet to read these words in their

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