Hard to believe, Peg?

Think about filters for a minute -- the constructs we use to keep out information we can't align according to our current preferred assumptions and our comfort zones. Ask a baseball-addicted flag-waving patriot about the beuaty of the Koran, and see what the process returns. Ask a vehement Muslim about the beauties of the American social experiment, an anti-abortion acitivist about the transcendant power of choice, or a pro-life activist about the transcendant sanctity of living forms. Selective denial is part of our makeup. Everyone uses blackout curtains in some of the rooms of their mansion. Well -- almost everyone, maybe. Everyone I know does, including myself and some of the most intelligent, aware, curious people I've ever met.

You can be someone who chooses to filter out phenomena that hasn't met material protocols of proof, as a way to reduce the pain and confusion of a universe too wildly random to face.

You can be someone who chooses to filter out the existence of people who don't (or 'can't') allow in phenomena they can't readily explain. It's the same black swamp-paint being used on a different window, is all...

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