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... "We see and understand things not as they are but as we are" It may be physical or psychological, and a cursory observation of human interactions makes it apparent that we engage psychologically in at least two different, not necessarily mutually exclusive types of "seeing". One is where we employ external inputs to perceive the outside world. The other is the unadulterated gazing inside of our own conscious: genuine introspection. Both varieties of "seeing" are a part of our daily interactions and are shaped by our environment and backgrounds.. It could be an interesting measure of one's emotional maturity as to how little dichotomy is allowed to exist between those two types of "seeing" in daily transactions. The area of history can be displayed to support the statement. Hitler is a subject of endless debate amongst historians: a judgement of his massacre of the Jews would be based on personal perspectives,
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