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Solve this simple cipher:

SBR SBCTU DBCKVRS FCGG WTTCR SFH FRRJD YTHE SHUWI

You will then see truth appearing bit by bit, piece by piece. If you make mistakes in the process, you will correct them all on your own, without anyone telling you. Truth imposes itself on us! Truth appears by itself!For which reason nobody wants to run away from it, the very same reason we retain the language we acquired when we were babies. Who wants to look a gift horse in the mouth?!

Babies are born into the same reality as everybody else. The language they learn is a language developed over thousands of years for deciphering this reality. You can use this language to create fiction. But fiction will always be different from truth. (Ask fiction writers the difficulties in developing a plot.) The same for lies.

Innumerable languages have been developed to decipher the same reality. But because they are all developed to decipher the same reality, they are all translatable with minor losses here and there..

There is no alternate reality because no baby has grown up in it. Alternate reality is the kind of grownup talk that makes no sense.

Language--any naturally developed language--has provided human beings a treasure composed of innumerable truths. Why would anyone want to throw it away? Or deliberately destroy it by telling lies?

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