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1. Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 05:34:57 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite
   So much understanding of the world we live in can't simply be put into words, but understanding can only be acquired by experience. Even something as mundane as the passing of time is experienced differently as an adult as opposed to as a child. For a little kid 5 minutes feels like an eternity, whereas many elderly wonder how so much time passed them by in an instant. Time actually passes by faster as you get older, so a lifetime is both an instant and an eternity, depending on your perspective. This is a fundamental obstacle to the transmission of wisdom from old to young, that a lot of what old people tell young people, no matter how true it is, simply cannot be grasped by them until they get older. Even within the course of a lifetime you pass through several higher and lower stages of awareness, and there are some things that can only be grasped at higher stages of awareness, which can be attained only by hard experience.
   • Arkana (arkana@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 05:40:04 JST Arkana

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     @ArdainianRight Yeah I was thinking about that recently. As a kid an hour drive would feel like forever, but today it's not that bad at all.
     
     It definitely helps for kids to have "fresh eyes" to learn about new problems, but adults definitely need to teach them properly about old problems and things that won't change much with the times.
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   • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 05:42:00 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

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     @Arkana Yeah. The eternal problem is to figure out how best to transmit that wisdom. You get to leave the cave and see the outside world as it is, but then you struggle to explain it when you go back in to your fellow prisoners.
   • Arkana (arkana@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 05:50:11 JST Arkana

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     @ArdainianRight Yeah when you try to transfer information from person to person there is always some degree of data corruption or loss. Especially the more complex the ideas are and the higher the amount of people you want to impart those ideas to.
     
     You can put those lessons in things like art, song, stories, etc, but if people start to lose the meaning then you need to invent new ones.
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