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40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club - What if everyone is simply insane?
The Portal
The Limitation of Awareness
This limitation of awareness is not an Anglo-Saxon privilege, though they are probably the only race which claims as an asset with others regard it as a deficiency. Stoics have wider horizons than fanatics. Faced with the absolute, understanding breaks down and are knowing and believing become pure lip service. If I knew for certain that I should die on November 30th, 1970, at 5 a.m., I would be poisoned by this knowledge. Count and recount the remaining days and hours and grudge myself every wasted minute. This has nothing to do with hopes to live longer than the average if the date were fixed 10 years later,. The neurosis forming process would remain the same
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