We seem to be living in a world with a curious double standard: If, much to his own amazement, someone reports that he has just perceived the ghost of his dead father giving instructions regarding the estate, we will say, “Oh, that isn’t real – that’s just that person’s experience.” But when we just hear, simply hear, of a rape or a murder or the agony of the homeless, we say, with great satisfaction, “Yes, that’s reality.”
If you use the same word for ten things, you don’t really know what those ten things are.
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