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We're drowning in plastic . I have seen terrifying things that haunt my dreams . I will talk about this later. Please, for the love of our planet, stop buying cartons of the tiny 16 oz bottled waters. I see them everywhere now. People fill their apartments with them. You have a dishwasher, a water purifier, clean tap water, expensive designer glassware, but you drink out of individual use plastic b ottles and toss them into the trash. It feels good to break open the sealed plastic cap, drink the pathetic 16oz of water and throw it away. Repeat an hour later. Each one is a little life accomplishment, a small boost of happiness. But don't pat yourself on the back. Every time you crack open a plastic bottle, you kill a sea turtle. It is the creation of the devil. When you smoke cigarettes, at least you can make valid argument you are only killing yourself. I have spent time in remote islands around the world past few years, places where there are no roads, no electricity, no h...

Do you believe that there is just one world shared by 7 billion people? I'm going to prove this is not true. We see world as static collection of physical objects - trees, rocks, people, sky, sun. But in reality, humans don't hear and see. They experience. I can prove this. You're angry about something and walk in a room with loud music, it makes you very angry - you shout "TURN IT DOWN!". Walk into the same room while in a great mood and you'll sing along to the song and say "TURN IT UP!." It's the same song - same volume - same room - totally different experience. The hearing and seeing are just raw inputs. By themselves meaningless.  (Take a hallucinogenic, you can even distort the very raw inputs!) This applies to every sensory experience in life - sight, sound, touch, smell, So you see now the world is not static at all. One sensory input can be experienced in infinite unique ways. The same rock is actually many different rocks...