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Can one only know through personal experience?
Can one only know through personal experience?
A man once heard about a mystic who lived high on a snow covered mountain in a state of perfect peace and comfort.
Intrigued the man said goodbye to his home and family and, wrapping his cape around him against the cold and biting winds, began the long, arduous, and dangerous ascent.
After several miserable weeks of exhausting effort, bone numbing cold, incessant hunger, danger, and loneliness, the man finally reached the peak of the mountain to discover an old man sitting cross legged, naked in the snow.
"Master!! At last I have found you"!!!! cried the man, collapsing in front of the mystic, "For I have..." and the man commenced to recount in painful detail the history and purpose of his quest.
The old man listened for a while, studying the ragged, frostbitten visitor intently until finally, with a shake of his venerable head he said, "So let me get this straight: you just left a perfectly adequate life with a decent home and a good family so that you could spend weeks out in the open freezing your tail off, going without food, rest, shelter, or companionship, pushed yourself to the brink of exhaustion, basically almost killed yourself, so that you could come here and ask a naked old man sitting in the snow how to be comfortable"?
"Yessss..." gasped the still exhausted man.
The old man reached behind himself, pulled out a huge rubber stamp, marked !!FAIL!! on the man's forehead, looked to see if the swelling had gone down on his hemorrhoids yet and went back into his cave for tea.
The last time I checked the world simply existed. Is it our error to ask if it should provide comfort to us?
Concreteness. And (a personal favourite) solidity.What comfort does the world have to offer?
I think it's the knowing worth knowing.Can one only know through personal experience?
Concreteness. And (a personal favourite) solidity.
I think it's the knowing worth knowing.
The last time I checked the world simply existed. Is it our error to ask if it should provide comfort to us? Isn't up to us to take it?
Can one only know through personal experience?
Recliners are pretty comfy.