ALT

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ALT? What's that? Existential? Is anything ALT if it's all personal? Which one is the ALT and which was is the REG? If it comes from MY brain it's the REG but it's also the ALT when you take it into YOUR brain. But then again when it comes from YOUR brain it's REG but also ALT when I take it into MY brain.

Google? What's that? Earth? Does it really exist as we believe it? We're all on Earth but we decided to call it EARTH instead of what the martians call it. Which name is correct: EARTH or the martian name? I suppose the martians because WE do not know they exist but THEY probably know we exist.

Distortion? What's that? Reality? Is it real if we see it through our own eyes? Isn't every version of a reality the distortion of another reality? It's MY reality against YOURS. But then again, can't they both exist? They should just run side by side, especially if we do not know one another because in that case my reality will not affect the existence of your reality. Conversely, if we do know each other then one of our realities must surely be wrong unless they are the same reality but how could they be the same reality if they are construction from different retinas?

POSTCARDS? What's that? Picture? Is it really a picture if it's not what it looks like in real life? But how can we be sure that it's real life if the retinas of Google Earth see it one way while we see it another way? Whose retinas are telling the truth and whose are lying? Google Earth is surely more credible because it has a wider view of the universe, whereas my retinas only see 100 yards in front of me in great detail and beyond that it's like a nasty pixellated screen from one of those old glass TV's that made my hair full of static as a child and screamed when the channel was not the one it preferred. But then again, I am ON earth while Google Earth is ABOVE earth. So really my retinas should be the truthful ones because they have firsthand experience creating pictures.

ALT Google Distortion POSTCARDS. These exist in only one form. [1] Their bits and pieces are both fake and real and wrong and right and false and true but altogether they are one real right true visual entity.

~LCS