• OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Just as you will never cross the same river twice, you, and those around you, are ever changing. You are a completely different person in a completely different world than existed that 17 years ago.

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      6 hours ago

      how do you never cross the same river twice when traveling to work takes you across the same bridge twice? 🤔

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        6 hours ago

        The metaphor is that the river is always changing. The water is different water, and the water is continuously shaping the earth around and beneath it.

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            1 hour ago

            It’s sound. The water might be going the same way, but speed, depth, and contents are constantly changing. Sure, you can cross a constructed bridge everyday and nothing changes.

            This is actually crossing a river, on foot, wagon, horse, etc. It’s always changing.