we're all the same in that

what people believe and what people say they believe is very different. if we are taking into account all the lines of distortion and misunderstanding possible, then we must acknowledge that we are miscontruing each other at every level of communication. sure, there are moments where two or more people can practically sparkle with a sense of communal understanding, but most of the time we barely communicate in gists. and the very fact that we sparkle suggests that this is special. even people who sparkle a lot consider it rare. usually acheived with very little words. but we spend so very much time on the verbal level. and at this level, it gets complicated. sure, human language is awesome and somewhat miraculous in it's universality and, boy, can we communicate with it. but considering that we, for the most part, speak so imperfectly. and that most of us, even those who do it well, write so imperfectly. and inconsistently. and use the wrong words. at the wrong times. rarely even saying what we mean. then, considering the people who cross these lines of communication. interpreting an imperfect message. with imperfect faculties. coloured through their own lenses, beliefs, experiences, attitudes... life is a big game of broken telephone, but nobody's whispering.

then consider those people who consider themselves to share a set of beliefs with many other people, and consider again how all those people are interpreting all those words in a different way, according to how they understand the world. or they are interpreting someone else's interpretation of someone else's interpretation of someone else's interpretation... that's the thing, man, we're all different. we're all the same in that.