when you look at the world around you, and see things happen, it appears to you as if you're seeing things as they are. science tells us that in fact photons are striking objects around you, and then traveling to your eye through your optic nerve and then into your brain. the image that exists in your brain of the world around you is in fact slightly delayed from everything that happens around you. so you actually don't see anything as it happens in the present, everything you see is slightly in the past. this is one oversimplified example of a thought experiment in epistemology. zeno's paradoxes are basically the idea that an order to travel from point a to point b you have to first go halfway between point a and point b. and to go from the halfway point all the way to point b you have to go halfway of that distance, which leaves you three quarters of the way to point b. and you'll have to keep going half of the distance for eternity and you'll never reach point b. so movement should be impossible if you always have to have travel halfway before you get to the end somewhere. yet movement is possible. so maybe the problem is language itself and how it's limited. again there are very smart people who are mostly men who have discussed these topics at length from almost every perspective possible and you should hear what they have to say before thinking you know the truth about the universe and existence. failing that, you should discuss the things that you think about with people who are educated and articulate, so that you don't get trapped in a hole of your own gullibility. that's what you're doing right now talking here with me. that's what philosophy is, a daily discourse with other like minded individuals about the good life epistemology morality et cetera. but yelling and writing out non sequiturs and opaque metaphors is not helpful to communicating the things that you think to other people.
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