Yeah, that's an important distinction, r m, and it's one I tried briefly to distinguish with my last paragraph I posted.
These things are difficult to measure because the unit of measurement is each generation.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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