I thought I would try to explain how I view reality. And the best description I can give is: "Infinite intersecting worlds".
For example, imagine you were a Christian fundamentalist and you went to Paris and met an atheistic existential pragmatist in Paris, France at a University there. Would you have anything at all in common? And would it matter to you if you fell in love with this person and didn't start immediately getting into arguments with them about whether God existed or not or whether you could stay non-violent towards them or not?
Now, imagine these kinds of contrasts extending to all countries and to all inhabited worlds throughout our Galaxy and to other galaxies and dimensions. What do you need to know about other places you might visit? You need to know the rules of that place to survive there. Do you need to exactly share the beliefs of any one of an infinite amount of places? NO. You simply need to know how to be and act polite within any new environment you might be in universe wide.
You don't need to try to convince anyone to believe exactly like you. You only need to find a common ground so you don't die or get murdered when visiting that place. That's all.
But then, something interesting likely will occur as time goes on in any new environment. You start to see that where you grew up in your tradition that they got some things right and some things wrong. So, you become more Cosmopolitan which means you don't lose your own heritage and customs but you do add what you find is more useful to you into your repertoire of knowledge and actions in the future. So, you become more and more every day "A Citizen of the Universe".
Do your loyalties to your family and area you grew up in lessen? Not usually. But you become less provincial and stupid and one dimensional by having traveled the world and the universe as well as having explored many different ways to solve the same problems everyone is bound to have anywhere they live in the universe.
To the best of my ability I write about my experience of the Universe Past, Present and Future
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