OT: Can you ride and Sonder?

[William]

A made up word by poet John Koenig as described in the quote below. Something that people could benefit from if they occasionally took a moment to ponder it and realize that they aren't the center of the universe that all the world revolves around.Take a moment out of everyday and pick out a passerby and consider what their world might be like, what they do, what do they like, and who their friends and families are without transfering your own likes and dislikes onto them.

You never know, people might find themselves getting more cordial toward one another? One can hope.





W.

[Buzz]

Thank-you.

[FlashUNC]

If you prefer your frame of reference post modern with a lot of footnotes, David Foster Wallace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY

Or, the contrarian view, from Jean-Paul Sartre's play "No Exit":

Hell is other people.

[Clean39T]

+1

"Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute centre of the universe; the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centredness because it’s so socially repulsive. But it’s pretty much the same for all of us. It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute centre of. The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor. And so on. Other people’s thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real." - DFW, This is Water

[Clean39T]

Originally Posted by FlashUNC

If you prefer your frame of reference post modern with a lot of footnotes, David Foster Wallace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY

Or, the contrarian view, from Jean-Paul Sartre's play "No Exit":

Hell is other people.

Ha ha, our DFW'ing crossed in the cyberspacewebs --- how poetic.

Heaven is also other people, if you let them be...

[William]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

Heaven is also other people, if you let them be...

Well said.





W.

[FlashUNC]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

Ha ha, our DFW'ing crossed in the cyberspacewebs --- how poetic.

Heaven is also other people, if you let them be...

Jurys still out on that one. We all contain multitudes after all.