On Truth and Falsity

                            The Skeptics' Mistakes

The skeptics contend that because sense objects and thought objects can change according to quantity and quality, then no one can tell what their true natures really can be. pb. OP ps. 54-56. But they overlook the fact that systems constantly change, but not the true and real basic elements of those systems. A system always changes because true and real elements are added or subtracted from that system. The color of objects can change when they become "scattered" and "loose," but when they become "combined" into large quantities, then color can change again. In order for this to happen, the true and real sense objects called "scattered" and "loose" must be subtracted from the first system, and the true and real sense object called "combined" must be added to the second system. Also, the colors change from one true and real color to another. Systems where the true and real idea of "moderation" is used can be quite different from a system where "excess" is used. Reality never changes. Only true and real sense objects and thought objects can be added or subtracted from systems that change within reality. In many systems, such as in medicine, the measurements of the true and real elements combined into the medicine must be exact in order for the system to be beneficial for the patient. In science and technology, often the systems invented must have exact, mathematical combinations of elements in order to work properly. Systems of sense objects and thought objects can constantly change in their formulations, but the basic, true and real elements of those systems never change.

The skeptics assert that since all systems of objects are relative to each other, then no one can tell what the true and real nature of objects can be. But they give their own game away when they use the word "combination." pb. OP ps.56-57. All systems combine individual, basic elements which cannot be reduced in nature and that always prove to be useful in the formulation of systems that benefit humanity. These true and real elements cannot be false because they all happen to be useful to consciousness and because falsity only appears to consciousness in false combinations of these true and real elements. Even the real idea of nothing happens to be a basic element of reality because it has proven to be useful to consciousness to exclude ideas not needed in the formulation of particular systems, and it identifies the falsity in false combinations so that those systems can be usefully discarded. Some systems will appear quite similar to others, but nevertheless, they will always contain some differences. For example, a German shepherd dog appears quite similar to a wolf. But the system of the German shepherd will contain the basic element called "tame" or "gentle" whereas the system of the wolf will be "ferocious." Both are useful systems in their own right. Every relative system always contains different basic elements whether those systems happen to be true or false. The usefulness of all basic elements prove them all to be true and  real which also proves that they cannot be false.

The skeptics make the same mistakes regarding systems which are rare or frequent. pb. OP ps. 58-59. Naturally, rare systems will cause amazement, or be more valuable, simply because they contain the basic element called "rarity." Frequent systems are taken for granted simply because they contain the basic idea called "frequency." Systems of sense objects and thought objects will change in the human stream of consciousness, but every system will always contain different real and true elements, with their spectrums, which forms that broad spectrum called "reality."

Falsity in systems can also be called "illusion." Illusion always appears useless to human consciousness except in certain special circumstances. Fiction writers and magicians use illusion to form useful systems called "entertainment." But they must add "entertainment" to their systems of illusions in order to make them useful. Fire can be a destructive system or a useful system depending on how it is used. Firefighters sometimes use fire to fight fire. But they must add the idea of "fight" to their system in order to make it useful. Lies are usually useless, and even destructive, systems, but if the idea of "rescue" of an innocent person is added to a lie, then that would be a very useful system. Intelligent humans possess the ability to add or subtract ideas from false and illusory systems in order to change them to useful systems.

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                              The Reality of Consciousness

The skeptics contend that because the mind can cause misapprehensions, then that too means that no one can tell that which is true from that which is false in apprehension. pb. OP p. 54. But one would think that if there really were no differences in truth and falsity in experience, then every apprehension would make no sense, and intelligence would be impossible. But the mind can discern order in experience, and the mind has the power to abstract meaning from experience, put that meaning into words and ideas, and formulate true and useful systems that increase knowledge and with that the well being of fellow humans. One would think that if there were really no difference between truth and falsity in experience, then order in nature would be impossible. Everything would be disordered. Humans know from experience that order never emerges from disorder except in very minor and accidental ways. If the human mind can abstract order from disorder, how did it acquire that power? Since the human mind can observe order in nature, and can abstract meaning from that order, put that meaning into words and ideas, and formulate ordered systems from those ideas and words for the benefit of their fellow humans, then it would seem that order would be the same as truth. But order cannot happen without an intelligent mind. This fact can only mean that before humans came into the universe, there had to be a ubiquitous Intelligent Mind who created all of the order in the universe, including life itself.

In addition, the mind cannot work without consciousness. Human consciousness has the power to be conscious of its stream of consciousness and can manipulate its abstracted words and ideas to form creative systems. But the human mind also has the power to be conscious of consciousness itself without the stream of consciousness. This consciousness of consciousness itself cannot be an illusion. God has calibrated the human mind to be able to be conscious of true and real experiences only. All false systems, such as illusions, always comprise true and real sense experiences and/or thought experiences. All sense objects and thought objects are useful to the human mind in its creation of beneficial systems, including the useful and real idea of nothing. If consciousness of consciousness were an illusion, it would have to be a useless false system, but it cannot be a false system. Falsity only occurs in false systems comprised of true and real sense objects and thought objects that prove their reality because they all happen to be useful for the formation of both true and false systems. The basic idea called "red" forms the spectrum of all shades of red. The basic idea called "honesty" forms the spectrum of all systems that practice honesty. The basic idea of "justice" forms the spectrum of all systems that attempt to be just. Heraclitus actually wrote that one can step into the same river twice, but with each step one experiences a constantly changing river. He meant that although the river changes with its flow, the whole river remains the same. The same happens to be true of reality. Even when a person experiences false systems, such as lies or a ghost, they always comprise true and real experiences that can also be used to formulate true and useful systems. For example, a "ghost" always comprises such experiences as "white," "mist" in "human" "shape," all of which happen to also be useful in the formation of true and useful systems. Falsity only occurs in false systems, but all of the basic and irreducible ideas can only be true and real. Therefore, consciousness of consciousness can only be true and real because "consciousness" itself can only be the basic and irreducible idea that forms the entire spectrum of everything of which consciousness can be conscious, including consciousness itself.

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                           Reality Never Changes

The skeptics seem to believe that if there were a true reality, then every appearance should be exact and unchanging. They present "admixtures" as their evidence that because appearances can constantly change, then no one can tell what the true nature of reality could be. They do not realize that every changing condition simply means a change of systems of reality with each system comprised of true and real appearances. For example, they contend that the human complexion changes when one is in warm air than when one is in cold air. Supposedly, being white people, they meant that one's face would be red in warm air and pale in cold air, and because of that, no one can tell what the true complexion of a white person could be. But they fail to realize that the true and real appearance called "warm" occurs in the first system, and the true and real appearance called "cold" occurs in the second system. Reality itself did not change, only different systems of reality changed. Systems of the reality of sense objects constantly changes, especially if one is watching television, and the stream of consciousness in every human also constantly changes, but only from one real system to another because every individual appearance in all sense objects and thought objects always displays a basic reality that does not change. The skeptics present as evidence for their claims other examples of changing appearances, but only from one real system to another. pb. OP ps. 52-54

The true system of reality covers the entire spectrum of sense and thought appearances. The truth that systems of reality can change, but the basic idea of reality itself never changes can be illustrated by the following analogy. An FM radio station emits a carrier wave of a certain frequency. But the music and voices that one hears when one plays his radio happens to be carried by a modulation of the frequency of the carrier wave by the constantly changing frequencies in the music and the voices. The systems of the music and voices constantly changes, but the carrier wave itself never changes. In a similar way, systems of reality constantly change, but the basic idea of reality itself; that is, of being itself, never changes. The same happens to be true of all the basic realities. The color red can change to different shades of red, but the basic, irreducible idea of "red" never changes. Circles can come in many different sizes, but the basic, irreducible idea of a "circle" never changes. The same can be said of systems of beauty. Even if one judges something to be ugly, one must still possess the basic idea of "beauty" in order to make that judgment. The same can be said of all of the other basic, irreducible ideas in reality such as "truth," "justice," and "love."

Basic realities that never change can only be eternal. God gave these basic realities to humans when He created them. Genesis 1:27. God calibrated the minds of humans to be able to experience only that which is true and real even when systems of reality change. God gave humans intelligence which means that humans can formulate many different true systems that increase human knowledge, which in turn, increases the well being of humans. Humans can also formulate false systems, such as lies, or humans can also formulate systems of speculation and opinion which requires investigation, or the trial and error method, to determine if they are true or false systems. But no matter what systems humans formulate, they all always comprise true and real basic realities. Humans can only experience true, basic realities that never change. Humans can formulate or observe false systems, but every false system always comprises true and basic realities. When false systems become identified as being false, humans use the real and useful idea of nothing to identify them as being false. False systems never increase human knowledge, and therefore, should always be usefully discarded. Since humans can only experience true and real basic sense objects and thought objects, then unreality can never appear to human consciousness.

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                            The "Ad Infinitum" Test

The skeptics resort to an "ad infinitum" argument to try to demonstrate that no one can know the true nature of any experience. They declare that if anyone claims that a sense object or thought object can be true and real, then that person must provide a test to prove that that object is true and real. This argument is similar to saying that a foot ruler may not be exactly a foot long, and so one needs an exact foot ruler to measure it. But the exact foot ruler may not be exactly a foot long which means that a person would need another exact foot ruler and so on until a person realizes that no true foot ruler exists. In a similar way, people should realize that no true sense object or thought object exists. The skeptics claim that no one can know if a sense object or thought object is true or real unless they have a true test of the reality of that object. But every test of an object would require another test of the test itself and so on to infinity because every test may not be real. pb. OP p. 52

The skeptics then judge that since any such test to infinity can only be impossible, then no one can know if a sense object or thought object can ever be true and real. But when the skeptics concede that a test to infinity would be a true and real test that would prove the reality of sense and thought objects, they evidently admit that the idea of infinity can only be a true and real idea. They also admit that a system of impossibility must also be true and real since they use this idea to make a real judgment that no one can ever have a true and real experience. The skeptics evidently believe that the ideas of "impossibility" and "infinity" must be true and real even though both are solely thought objects that the skeptics consider to be even less real than sense objects.

But if an infinite test of all sense objects and thought objects is needed to prove that reality exists, such an infinite test actually happens to be possible. The skeptic, David Hume, when he looked into his own mind, he said that he saw only his own stream of consciousness. He desired to refute the idea of self-consciousness. But since no one can say anything about something of which one is not aware, then how did Hume become aware of his stream of consciousness? He could only have seen his stream of consciousness because he became conscious of it. Hume had to have had a real consciousness of his stream of consciousness, because otherwise, he could have said nothing about it. If Hume had had a stream of consciousness only, then he would have been an animal who has a stream of consciousness but no consciousness of it. Hume had to have had a real consciousness of his stream of consciousness. This has to be self-consciousness. But in order for a person to know that they have self-consciousness, they would have to be conscious of their consciousness of their self-consciousness, and in order to be conscious of that, they would need still another consciousness and so forth toward infinity. This procession of consciousness toward infinity could be called the spirit of the human being. But the limited mind of humans prevents them from carrying this process to infinity.

But if an Infinite Consciousness exists, then He could connect the spirit of humans to infinity. An Infinite Consciousness would possess an Infinite Consciousness of Himself and an Infinite Consciousness of His infinite set of thought objects that would be One with His Being. He would also possess the ability to create an infinite set of sense objects based on His thought objects. Since He is Infinite, He would also be everywhere that it is possible for anything to be. His Infinite Consciousness would provide a reliable test for the reality of every sense object and thought object that He gives to humans. This Infinite Consciousness could only be the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. John 1:1; I John 5:7 (KJB). God also created humans to be conscious of nothing except that which is true and real, and even their consciousness of the useful idea of nothing is true and real. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB).

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                          Different Systems, Same Reality

The skeptics apparently expect reality to be the same in every system of appearances. They contend that no one can tell what the true light of a lamp could be since it appears dim in sunlight and bright in the dark. They do not consider that the sunlight simply overpowers the lamp light and causes it to appear dim. They ignore the fact that the appearances, denoted by words, can only be real in both systems. "Sunlight" is real, and so is "dim," and so is "dark." The forms of reality can change with every different system, but reality itself never changes. The skeptics seem to think that if a lamp is truly bright, then it should have the same brightness in any system in which it appears.

They contend that if an oar appears bent in water, then no one can tell if an oar is really bent or straight. But all they had to do was to look at an oar right after someone had made it, and they would know that the normal system for an oar is that it is straight. The oar appears "bent" in water because of the way light is reflected from the water. But that fact can only be learned from a scientific investigation. The mind simply substitutes the "bent" appearance for the reflection of the light. Even though the "bent" appearance happens to be just a thought object, the mind has learned that "bent" is a real appearance in past experience.

The skeptics confuse many other systems with each other to reach their conclusion that no one can tell the difference between truth and falsity. But every word in every sentence, which are systems, has meaning derived from experience which makes them useful and real. Even nonsense words have meaning. The real idea of nothing informs the human mind that they mean nothing. That can only be useful information to the human mind. Humans can form false systems composed of true and useful sense objects and thought objects, and humans can form true and useful systems also composed of true and useful sense objects and thought objects. All thought objects are useful and real even though they all are in the mind because they have been given to the mind to be experienced, or they have been derived from sense experiences. False systems are illusions which are always useless except to fiction writers and magicians, but they always comprise true and real sense objects and/or thought objects. Reality adheres to every true or false system. The true idea of nothing informs humans when they observe or discover that a system is false. That which humans never experience is unreality.

An egg is soft inside a fowl because it is in a system of development, and hard in the air to protect it from the elements. "Hard" and "soft" are both real. A jacinth is fluid inside a lynx because it is subject to the dissolving effects of the fluids in the lynx, and it becomes hard in the air because the air dries it out. Two true but different systems in which every word happens to be useful and true. Sounds are naturally different when played through an instrument or are blowing in the wind, but "sound" itself is real and never changes. Because "sound" itself is useful and real, then every change in sound is also useful and real. All of these examples display different systems of reality, but "reality" itself never changes. Whatever never changes can only be real. pb. OP p.51. 

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                      The Reality that Never Changes

The skeptics always confuse different systems with each other when they make their judgments that no one can tell the difference between truth and falsity. They contend that because a ship in the distance appears to be small and stationary, and it appears large and in motion when close at hand, then no one can tell if it is really large or small, in motion or stationary. But a system that has "distance" in it can only be different from a system that has "closeness" in it. The appearance of reality in different systems can change, but reality itself never changes. "Distance" is real, and "close" is real. Both are useful ideas. As far as the true reality of a ship is concerned, those who designed the ship and built it to be large and move over the water to supply a useful system to humans of carrying people and cargo to distant places know better than anyone what the true reality of the ship happens to be. pb. OP p.51.

Distance is the same as space and space is the same as time. Whenever one sees something in the distance, one sees it in the past. The stars at night look fixed in space, but they are actually moving at a high velocity. The past tends to fix events and objects into a stationary form. No matter how many times one replays a movie or a video, the events displayed happen the same way every time. That happens because the events displayed happened in the distant past. When a plane flies overhead, it appears to move slower as it approaches the horizon. The past tends to fix reality into stationary forms.

When objects and events are close to a conscious human, reality becomes changeable. Close at hand, the tendency of the past to fix events and objects in stationary form becomes negligible. Intelligent consciousness overrides the past. Human consciousness exists in the present, and events and objects that are close at hand move into the present and become subject to conscious control. Events and objects in the distant past move beyond conscious control. Thought objects are also always in the present. Yet, there always exists a very small distance between sense objects and thought objects and consciousness itself which allows consciousness to fix its objects in a very close past. Close at hand, humans can manipulate reality in sense and thought objects that it can use in creative or destructive ways according to choices made. Objects look small in the distance because the past tends to remove objects from human consciousness.

The future appears as a myriad of possibilities, but only to an intelligent consciousness. Without human consciousness, the future is also fixed by physical laws and the mathematical formulas that describe them. But no chemical process has been discovered that leads inevitably to the formation of life. Only an intelligent consciousness can manipulate chemicals to form creative or destructive systems. Life is far too complicated to have ever been formed by accident. The fact that humans can choose those possibilities that they can use to form personal systems that can be beneficial or destructive to themselves, or that can be beneficial or destructive to others, proves that humans possess free will.

All of this put together demonstrates that there can be no past, present, or future without consciousness. Consciousness is the same thing as the present. Even the physical laws and the mathematics that govern those laws had to have been created by an Intelligent Consciousness in order for the universe to have a past, present, and future. Without a past, present, and future, absolutely nothing happens. Only prophets sent by God and mathematics can predict the future, and mathematics only in very limited ways. Each individual makes choices and creates systems which, when blended with all other choices and systems, creates the history of the human race. But like individual humans, humanity as a whole tends to invent systems that move toward self-destruction. But God intervenes into human history to correct that process. Eventually, God will save the whole human race. Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

Reality can take many forms as systems, but reality itself never changes because the sense objects and thought objects revealed to consciousness are always useful and real in any true or false systems that humans observe or invent.

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                       The Constant Systems of Reality

The skeptics contend that since humans can perceive different systems of experience under many different circumstances, then no one can tell truth from falsity or reality from unreality. They provide examples of what they mean. A porch viewed from a corner appears shorter, but when viewed from the middle appears symmetrical. But they ignore the fact that their examples simply display different systems of perception which always contain the same constant experiences arranged in different ways. The porch appears short from the corner, but "short" happens to be a constant appearance whenever a person views anything that is truly short. When viewed from the corner, the porch appears as an optical illusion where the mind substitutes the real appearance called "short" which causes a false system. Yet, every appearance in this false system is real. Falsity never appears in the constant appearances that always forms true and false systems. Every appearance in every system is constant, and therefore, real. Falsity only appears in false combinations of constant, true appearances, and then only as the real idea of nothing which indirectly indicates unreality. Those who designed and built the porch built it to be symmetrical, and therefore, the true system of perception would be that the porch is truly symmetrical. pb. OP ps.43-51.

False systems of constant appearances in sense objects and thought objects can occur because of misapprehension, hallucination, optical illusions, or simply because of mistakes that humans are prone to make such as mistakes in arithmetic. But all false systems that humans can make or perceive always comprise constant sense and thought appearances that never change. The color red can appear in many different shades, but the constant idea of "red" itself never changes. Circles can appear in many different sizes, but the idea of "circle" itself never changes. Short can be relative to whatever something is shorter than, but the idea of "short" never changes. One can judge a work of art to be beautiful or ugly, but one must possess the constant idea of "beauty" in order to be able to make such a judgment. Humans can formulate many true and false systems of justice, but the ideal of "justice" itself never changes. One would think that if humans really lived in a world where one could not tell the difference between truth and falsity, and between reality and unreality, then everything would be in a constant state of change, would fade in and out of existence, similar to impressionistic works of art. One may object that systems can deteriorate. But such systems continuously change in constant appearances such as in color and breakdown. The system called "constant appearances" means that they are constant in the mind, not that they constantly appear. Deterioration in systems simply entails another constant called "entropy." Even when systems deteriorate, they dissolve into other constants such as gases and the elements of matter.

The constants in the mind can only be possible because of another constant system called "remembrance." Remembrance occurs because an intelligent mind retains all of its constant appearances that it learned from experience, and all impressions on a mind are experienced. Remembrance in the mind causes another constant system to be possible called "knowledge." Knowledge is the ability of the mind to use its constant appearances to formulate true or false systems in perception. This means constants must be real because true systems prove to be useful to advance human knowledge whereas false systems which are illusions always prove to be useless except to fiction writers and magicians. Knowledge also makes possible the formulation of appearances into words that have meaning so that humans can communicate with each other to formulate true or false systems. Whether humans formulate true or false systems, they must possess the constant system of "knowledge" in order to do so. Whether one observes a sense object or thinks of an idea, both can only be the objects of consciousness, and therefore, both have been experienced, and both prove useful in the formulation of true and false systems. The constant system called "wisdom" occurs when a person becomes very good at formulating true systems instead of false ones.

One would think that if humans did not possess the constant true systems of "intelligence" and "knowledge," then human consciousness could only be equal to that of the animals. The animals seem to possess some remembrance, but they do not possess knowledge by means of which they can formulate true or false systems. But humans can formulate useful, true systems, and with the same constant appearances can formulate false systems that humans can identify by the use of the idea of nothing, but humans never observe unreality itself. Since humans never observe unreality itself, then every sense object and thought object can only be real. Humans can also formulate systems of speculation and opinion which takes time and investigation, or even a system of trial and error, to discover whether or not they are true or false systems. In any case, humans always experience reality whether they form true or false systems, or systems of speculation and opinion, by their use of the constant system of knowledge.

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                             The Constants in Reality

The skeptics recognize that every individual person can be in a different physical, mental, and emotional state as they go through life. And individuals can have different perceptions in each state of being. A person who is awake has different experiences than when he is asleep. A young person has different experiences than when he grows old. A person who is in love has different experiences than when he hates someone. In other words, each individual can become a different system in different circumstances. Both persons and their experiences can be in different systems. The skeptics maintain that because both individuals and their perceptions can change, then a constant reality cannot be determined.

But the skeptics fail to realize that in all these changing systems, both in individuals and in their perceptions, there remains certain constants that never change. Every individual uses these constants when he formulates any sense objects or thought objects into true or false systems. A person who is asleep always forms his dreams with the experiences he had while awake. He may formulate his experiences while asleep into very strange systems, but the experiences always comprise the same kinds of experiences he had while awake. In other words, he constantly uses the same experiences. A young person naturally formulates different systems in his mind than he does when he grows old. But his basic experiences in both cases remain the same. A man in love with a woman certainly feels a different system than if he hated her, but nevertheless, the constant experiences of love or hatred remain the same in either experience that the same person may have. In other words, systems can certainly change, but basic experiences never change.

These constants form the basic system of reality. There can be different systems of love, but love as an emotion never changes. There can be different systems of taste, but taste itself never changes. A sick person who tastes honey as being "bitter" has a true experience, but the system would be false. A young person may form a false system called "I know it all," but still knowledge itself remains constant. When that person grows old, he may learn that he actually knows very little, but knowledge itself as a means of knowing does not change. Humans possess many of these constants that never change, and by means of which humans can communicate with each other in their co-operative search for better systems for each other. Some of these constants are "red," "round," "truth," "justice," "beauty," and "love." There exist many different shades of red, but "red" as a basic experience remains the same. Objects can have different shapes of round, but "round" remains the same as a constant, basic experience. Some systems can be true and others false, and others matters of speculation and opinion, but in every system the basic experience called "truth" remains the same. The true system is useful for human knowledge. The false system should be truly discarded for being useless. In systems of speculation and opinion, the truth can be hard to find, but nevertheless, humans seek it. Humans have the ideal of "justice," even though they constantly seek for better systems of justice. If a man loves an ugly woman, to him she has "beauty," just as those who know she is not beautiful. They have to have a constant idea of "beauty" in order to exclude it from the system that is an ugly woman.

Humans also possess certain ideas that they could not have derived from sense or thought perceptions. Humans have the useful idea of nothing that they never see, but which can be used to exclude unneeded ideas from any system that they may formulate. The idea of nothing can also be used to indicate the falsity in false systems. All false systems mean nothing. Humans possess the useful idea of infinity even though no one has ever directly experienced infinity. Even the largest number that a human can conceive still remains finite, and no finite mind can ever make that huge leap from the finite to the infinite. For this reason, there can be no such thing as an infinite number. Whatever infinity happens to be, it cannot be a number because no thing can be added to it or subtracted from it. These unexperienced ideas do become experienced when they become impressed on human consciousness. But from where do they come? They could have come to human consciousness from an infinite field of ideas. But ideas cannot exist without consciousness, and therefore, an Infinite Consciousness can exist.

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                    On the True Nature of Reality

God created each person as an individual with separate responses to their environment. People have different responses to what they smell, taste, see, hear, touch, and think. God created every person to be an individual system, and therefore, each person uses his individual experiences in different ways. Experiences differ from one person to another. Nevertheless, every person who speaks any language can turn their experiences into words and communicate with each other and understand each other. One person may like the taste of apples, and another may not, but they can still talk with each other about taste and apples. One person may become very distraught about a particular event that happened while another may consider that event to be not so important. But they can talk together about that event and understand each other although they disagree.

The skeptics claim that they suspend judgment as to whether or not reality exists. But when they argue that because people have different experiences through their senses, no one can tell what is real, they really judge that reality does not exist at all. The skeptics seem to believe that if reality existed, it would be the same for every person, but if that were true then every person would have to be a clone of every other person, and creativity and progress and even intelligence itself would be impossible. The skeptics ignore the fact that every human is a different system with different creative ideas because they have different responses to their experiences. This condition means that humans can still communicate with each other, invent better systems, plan for the future, and just create better conditions and better societies with and for each other. That is reality.

God created some people with great creative talents who happen to be very good at creating useful systems, and God created others with just the talents needed to take good care of their families, and some who seem to have no talents at all. But every person happens to be necessary for the establishment of reality. Persons with great talents quickly advance the progress of humanity. Those who can just take care of their families, by extension, take care of the whole human race. Persons who seem to have no talents at all exist so that those who do have talents can invent better systems to help them. Reality creates incentives for everyone.

Reality becomes established when humans use their true and real experiences to formulate true and useful systems that benefit others. When humans discover that a particular controversial system happens to be false, they can use the idea of nothing to judge that false system as being useless and that should be usefully discarded. If no one can truly tell the difference between truth and falsity, then reality would be impossible since no one could be creative because no one would be able to tell the difference between reality and unreality. Although unreality never appears to humans, humans can get an indirect idea of it by their use of the idea of nothing that indirectly indicates its presence in false systems. Since unreality never appears to humans, then all that does appear to humans must be real.

Even so, humans have the ability to use real sense objects and thought objects to formulate false systems that are useless and even hateful and destructive. Falsity always adheres to false systems themselves, never to the true and real experiences that compose them. Because of the evil within every human heart, every human has in their lives at some time taken a part in those false systems. Some people will cling to false systems, such as drugs and alcohol abuse, until they destroy themselves. Because of stubbornness and excessive pride, many humans will adamantly adhere to false systems of religion and politics that have proven to be harmful to humans even though they should be usefully discarded. Religion can sometimes improve the lives of people to a certain extent, but all religions actually prevent humans from ever getting to know God as their personal friend and Savior who gives them victory over all false systems. In true Christianity, humans can get to know the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God, as their personal friend and Savior who will greatly improve their lives and provide them with a much stronger ability to avoid false systems such as sin and evil. Evil causes the breakdown of reality. God will eventually restore and recreate His entire creation that has been damaged by evil. John 3:16; Galatians 5:16-26; II Peter 3:9-13.