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Red Balloon Analysis
"Truth"

We can know the truth on some issues, yet on so many more issues the truth lies only within our heritage, our communities and within ourselves. We as human beings have the benefit of math and science to prove theories and explain just how something may or may not be accurate. As we learned from the "Red Balloon" video, things we believe to be the absolute truth may very well not be another person's actuality. It is all dependent on what we have been taught by our families and the surroundings in our communities. Then all that is dependent on what we ourselves choose to do with all that information! I personally enjoy not being omniscient, all-knowing, this world would be all-boring then I fear.

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