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apocalypstyx | 3 years ago

You can't swim against the same stream twice.

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koolba|3 years ago

Technically you can. You just have to flow back down a different one to the source again.

The professional analogy would be quitting a 9-5 to do you own thing, building it up, getting acquired, and then repeating the process.

coldtea|3 years ago

>Technically you can. You just have to flow back down a different one to the source again

It wont be the same, as all arrangements of molecules would have changed, not to mention be entirely different water molecules.

Which was Heraclitus point (metaphorically): the things we wish to do again ("twice"), we'll always have to do them in a changed environment.

guerrilla|3 years ago

You missed the Heraclites reference.

tom-thistime|3 years ago

You can deal a second hand of cards from the same deck. You can't* deal exactly the same hand you dealt the first time.

*Limiting case given enough cards. We shuffle before each deal.