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Originally posted by Unright
Of course, mood and knowledge are not entirely seperate. The first poster, (Yzermans19), mentioned that the life of a Medival servant wouldn't be bad because they would be ignorant of a better life. I disagree. The indentured servant would be frustrated by the difference in quality of life. It may cause him to wonder why the world is so.
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I realize it wasn't a good example, the allegory of the cave is much better. Of course you'd be frustrated that the Lord living in his castle above you didn't have to work as hard and gained more. Imagine for some reason you didn't know of a better life....including the Landlord.... bah, the allegory of the cave works better.
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Originally posted by roachboy
if you are aware that you were in a cave, you have already left it.
there is no going back.
heraclitus was right.
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The point of the allegory of the cave is that you're not aware that you were in a cave. To you, your surroundings is reality. The dark walls of the cave was the world. There is nothing better.
I'm saying is that the moment you do realize something better, you become aware that there must be something better than that....and you work towards it.
Perhaps it is attitude like CoachAlan said. If you can accept your reality, you can be happy.
I'm just in the stage where I think that it would be a whole lot easier to accept my reality if there wasn't an awareness of improvement.
Its a chain reaction though really...once you say yes to an instant is when you say yes to all of reality.