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    False Worlds
    False Worlds
    False Worlds
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    False Worlds

    By Duane L. Ostler

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    A false world is like an apple full of worms. It appears juicy and attractive on the outside, but is in fact disgusting on the inside. This book discusses a number of false worlds masquerading as truth but which are in fact false to their core. Included are the false worlds of politics, international relations, law, sexual confusion (premarital sex, abortion and gayness), entertainment and pride.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDuane L. Ostler
    Release dateDec 3, 2015
    ISBN9781310089596
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    Duane L. Ostler

    Duane L. Ostler was raised in Southern Idaho, and has lived in Australia, Mexico, Brazil, China, Utah, the big Island of Hawaii, and—most foreign of all—New Jersey. He practiced law for over 10 years and has a PhD in legal history. He and his wife have five children and two cats.

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      False Worlds - Duane L. Ostler

      False Worlds

      Copyright 2015 Duane L. Ostler

      All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, copied or distributed without the express permission of the author.

      The author was formerly identified in prior versions of this book under the pen name E. Reltso.

      Cover design by the author.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      CHAPTER 1: Introduction

      CHAPTER 2: The False World of Politics

      CHAPTER 3: The False World of International Relations

      CHAPTER 4: The False World of the Law

      CHAPTER 5: The False World of Sexual Confusion

      CHAPTER 6: The False World of Entertainment, Advertising and Money

      CHAPTER 7: The False World of Pride, Vanity and Comparisons

      CHAPTER 8: Conclusion

      OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

      CHAPTER 1: Introduction

      Apples are a wonderful fruit. Shiny on the outside, juicy on the inside, apples are just big enough to fill the hole in your appetite, but small enough so they can fit in your pocket. Apples figure prominently in ugly fruit bowl pictures by aspiring artists, have been adopted as the symbol of one of the most successful computer companies in the world, and are the gift of choice by school children when they want to either (a) show their teacher they have a crush on them or (b) butter up their teacher so their grade won't be an 'F.' If you play a word association game with someone in New York and say the word 'apple,' he will instantly smile and associate the word with the smog and crime ridden cesspool of violence he so fondly calls home.

      So, what do apples have to do with false worlds, which is the subject of this volume? In a word--nothing. After all, an apple is an apple, not a false world. It is juicy, fruity, may contain worms, and is likely to cause sickness if eaten before it is ripe. None of those things have anything to do with the vague title of this volume--a title that must have piqued your interest, or you would not be reading this right now. (In case you are NOT reading this right now, a philosophical issue is instantly raised: remember the old question if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? In this context, the question is if a book exists but no one ever reads it, does it actually say anything? You will have to be the judge of the answer, which of course is meaningless if you are reading this now).

      But perhaps there is a correlation after all. Surprisingly, apples can be an excellent example of a false world. Most apples are red and a few are green--but inside they are white! Why are they not red inside like strawberries tomatoes or hot chili peppers? After all, these fruits/vegetables are red inside and out, and therefore are not deceptive like apples. With an apple, the packaging on the outside does not match what we find on the inside, and is therefore very misleading.

      As another example, a beautiful, shiny apple in the supermarket may hold out the promise of delicious, juicy fruit--but may in fact contain hordes of teaming worms. Of course, most supermarket apples don't contain worms, since they have been heavily sprayed to destroy such pests--which is yet another example of a false world, since the best apples are presumed to be those that have been plastered so much with toxic poisons worms will not eat them. Which naturally raises another question: why would anyone want to eat something covered with poison? Or to put it another way, if a worm doesn't think it's worth eating, why should you?

      In short, an apple is a very effective symbol of a false world. It portrays the falseness of an image that does not match what one would expect, or which defies logic or common sense. We could have used other fruits as examples of course, such as watermelon (their weight suggests a filling meal, but they are mostly water), grapefruit (any fruit that can squirt painful acid into your eye must certainly be suspect) and pomegranates (hordes of seeds surrounded by a tiny layer of fruit, that take forever to eat). The main point is that apples, and these other deceitful fruits, portray an image that misleads and does not represent reality. A fake image is presented that may or may not be true. In short, the assumptions do not match the reality.

      The term 'false' is defined in Webster's Dictionary to mean not real or genuine; not true or accurate … done or said to fool or deceive someone; based on mistaken ideas. The word world includes as part of its definition the earthly state of human existence … the earth with its inhabitants and all things upon it … individual course of life … the concerns of the earth … human society. Combine the two terms and you have a not real or genuine state of human existence, or a course of life intended to fool or deceive someone. The point of this volume is that there are many such false worlds thrown at us from many different directions, each of which is presented by society as if it IS real and genuine. We are supposed to believe these false worlds and buy into their reality, even though they are not real and are nothing more than a whopping, big lie. In short, they are an apple full of worms.

      Each chapter of this irritating little volume will discuss one of these false worlds. This includes the false world of politics, international relations, law, sexual confusion, entertainment, advertising, money, pride/vanity and comparisons. I say that this book is irritating because it is--it dispels the myths around these false worlds in ways that are sometimes bizarre, often flippant, occasionally callous, but always irritating to those who have bought into or who have come to believe that a particular false world is not false at all, but is really true. Because NO ONE likes to discover he has been living in a false world, believing things that are simply not true …

      And so we embark on our journey into a number of false worlds. And the first of these is one which most people have no trouble recognizing

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